15 Facts About Linda Nazar

Linda Nazar develops materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

Linda Nazar was awarded the 2019 Chemical Institute of Canada Medal.

Linda Nazar studied chemistry at the University of British Columbia, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1978.

Linda Nazar was inspired to study chemistry after being inspired by her first year professor.

Linda Nazar's father had trained as a scientist and ran his own jewellery making business.

Linda Nazar joined the University of Toronto for her graduate studies, and completed a PhD under the supervision of Geoffrey Ozin in 1984.

Linda Nazar was a founding member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.

Linda Nazar is recognised as being a "leading authority in advanced materials".

Linda Nazar was awarded a Canada Research Chair in 2004, which was renewed in 2008 and 2012.

In 2009 Linda Nazar joined the California Institute of Technology as a More Distinguished Scholar.

Linda Nazar is particularly interested in storage materials that go beyond lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, zinc ion batteries and magnesium-ion batteries.

Linda Nazar showed it was possible to create mesoporous carbon frameworks that constrain the grown of sulphur nanofillers, which improved energy storage and reversibility.

Linda Nazar has developed lithium oxygen batteries, which are lightweight with high energy density.

Linda Nazar was made a Professor at the University of Waterloo in 2016 and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Solid State Energy Materials.

Since 2014 Linda Nazar has served on the board of directors of the International Meeting on Li-Batteries.