{"id":36,"date":"2024-11-08T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:41:11","slug":"group-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/group-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Group News"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"36\" class=\"elementor elementor-36\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e66a3a2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2e66a3a2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ba78163 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ba78163\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- wp:heading --><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2025<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:list --><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Mehdi for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Mehdi will continue his postdoc at Universit\u00e9 Laval. Best of luck Mehdi!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Nazli for successfully defending her PhD thesis. Wish you the best!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mehdi won the&nbsp;Department of Physics <strong>Mostafa Showleh Memorial Laboratory Teaching Award,<\/strong>&nbsp;recognizing excellent work done by graduate students as tutors in the Physics laboratories. Congratulations Mehdi!<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Ameer and Mehdi for competing in the finals of the Ma These en 180 seconds. Watch the entire competition <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/fr\/actualites\/nouvelles\/2025\/03\/25\/faites-connaissance-avec-les-laureates-et-laureats-du-concours-ma-these-en-trois-minutes-de-l-universite-concordia-pour-l-annee-2025.html#:~:text=Quatre%20%C3%A9tudiants%20des%20cycles%20sup%C3%A9rieurs,Universit%C3%A9%2C%20le%2021%20mars%20dernier.\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/fr\/actualites\/nouvelles\/2025\/03\/25\/faites-connaissance-avec-les-laureates-et-laureats-du-concours-ma-these-en-trois-minutes-de-l-universite-concordia-pour-l-annee-2025.html#:~:text=Quatre%20%C3%A9tudiants%20des%20cycles%20sup%C3%A9rieurs,Universit%C3%A9%2C%20le%2021%20mars%20dernier.\">here<\/a>!<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:heading --><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2024<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:list --><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Ojike for successfully defending his MSc thesis. Best of luck, Ojike!<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Mehdi for winning the oral presentation award at the Centre Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois sur les Mat\u00e9riaux Fonctionnels\/Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials (CQMF \/ QCAM) student symposium.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Niki for successfully defending her MSc thesis.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group welcomes Jacob to the group! Jacob will be working on durable aerospace materials under the co-supervision of Dr. Pantcho Stoyanov.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Ameer for winning the DRAC EDIA Champions Program award, which supports researchers in remote regions and women scientists in materials research.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Mehdi for winning the best oral presentation award at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2024) that was held in Winnipeg (photo: Mehdi and Dr. Leanne Chen)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":43,\"width\":\"699px\",\"height\":\"auto\",\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} --><\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"wp-image-43\" style=\"width: 699px; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cermm.concordia.ca\/ghp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/csc.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:list --><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many congratulations to Mehdi for winning the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rsc.org\/mh\/2024\/07\/08\/congratulations-to-the-cemdi-poster-prize-winners\/?doing_wp_cron=1731089923.5115139484405517578125\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.rsc.org\/mh\/2024\/07\/08\/congratulations-to-the-cemdi-poster-prize-winners\/?doing_wp_cron=1731089923.5115139484405517578125\">Materials Horizons <\/a>oral presentation award at the 2nd Annual Computational Energy Materials Design Infrastructure (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/cemdi.inrs.ca\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cemdi.inrs.ca\/\">CEMDI<\/a>) symposium (photo from left to right: Dr. Sergei Manzhos, Dr. Gabriel Antonius, Dr. Mohamed Chaker and Mehdi ).<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:image 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wp:list --><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><!-- wp:list-item --><p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Nazli, Kevin, Ridwan and Mehdi for winning best oral presentations award in the CERMM annual symposium sponsored by <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3ds.com\/\">Dassault Syst\u00e8mes<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><!-- wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to Morgan and Mehdi for being selected as <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/gradstudies\/professional-skills\/focused-training\/3mt-mt180-competitions.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/gradstudies\/professional-skills\/focused-training\/3mt-mt180-competitions.html\">Concordia 3MT<\/a> competition finalists!<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list-item --><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!-- \/wp:list --><!-- wp:columns --><\/span><\/p>\n<div 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