Professor Linda Nazar (Waterloo) awarded NSERC’s 2026 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for battery research
Linda Nazar of the University of Waterloo won the 2026 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal (NSERC) for her leading research on battery materials. She has authored over 300 papers with more than 82,000 citations. The medal’s grant will support expansion of her solid-state and aqueous battery research.
NSERC’s 2026 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering was awarded to Professor Linda Nazar (Chemistry, University of Waterloo) in recognition of her influential body of work on electrochemical energy storage. A global authority on battery materials, Nazar has published 300+ co-authored papers and accrued over 82,000 citations. Following recent honors (Killam NRC Paul Corkum Fellowship 2025; Royal Society Hughes Medal 2024; Royal Society Fellowship 2020), she plans to use the award funding to pursue new directions in solid-state and aqueous batteries.
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