Professor Dongling Ma (FRSC, FIAAM), holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Advanced
Functional Nanocomposites, has been a professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Canada,
since 2006 (
https://inrs.ca/en/research/professors/dongling-ma). Her main research
interest consists in the development of various nanomaterials (e.g., semiconductor quantum dots,
transition metal catalytic nanoparticles, plasmonic nanostructures) for applications in energy,
environment, catalysis and biomedical sectors. She has co-authored >200 articles in a broad range of
areas, centered on materials science, in selective, high-impact journals such as
J. Am. Chem. Soc, Nat.
Commun., Adv. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Chem.
Mater. and Chem. Soc. Rev. with H-index of 65 (Google Scholar). She has co-authored 6 granted patents
and 4 book chapters. She has delivered >130 invited speeches at international conferences and prestigious
universities/government laboratories. She is an associate editor of
ACS Applied Nano Materials and also
serves/served on multiple journal editorial advisory boards, including the prestigious
ACS Energy Lett.,
Scientific Reports, Frontiers (Energy),
PhotonX (Springer), etc. She also acted as the section Editor-in-
Chief for the section “Solar Energy and Solar Cells” of
Nanomaterials, and acts in Section Editor Group
of
National Science Review (NSR, Materials Science). Her recent awards include the 2022 Clara Benson
Award from the Chemical Institute of Canada.