Jillian Buriak

Jillian M. Buriak FRSC is a Canadian chemist, currently a Canada Research Chair[1] in Nanomaterials at University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Royal Society of Chemistry. She is known for her work develoing flexible, lightweight solar cells made from nanoparticles. By spraying a plastic surface with nanomaterials, she's able to fabricate a transparent layer of electrode that act as solar cells. Due the flexibility, they could be incorporated onto different surfaces. [2]

She has an A.B. degree from Harvard University (1990) and a Ph.D. from Université Louis Pasteur (1995), Strasbourg, working on organometallic chemistry and catalysis. She held a postdoctoral appointment at the Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California, working on self-assembly of nanostructures on surfaces. Buriak started her independent faculty career at Purdue University in 1997, was promoted to associate professor, with tenure, in 2001. In 2003, She joined the University of Alberta as a full professor.

From 2003 to 2008, Buriak was on the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science (handling 7-10 papers per week). She was an associate editor at ACS Nano from 2009 to 2013 (handling >500 papers per year). In 2014, she was appointed as the editor-in-chief of Chemistry of Materials,handling ~5000 papers per year.[3]

Selected Honors


  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Rutherford Medal (Chemistry) of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Canada Research Chair of Nanomaterials
  • Canada's Top 40 Under 40
  • ACS Pure Chemistry Award
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
  • Fresenius Award
  • Cottrell Teacher-Scholar

Research Interests[4]


  • Materials for Energy
  • Nanomaterials Synthesis
  • Silicon Surface Chemistry
  • Block Copolymer Self Assembly

References

  1. ↑ Chairs, Government of Canada, Industry Canada, Canada Research. "Canada Research Chairs". www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  2. ↑ "#ThankAScientist – Jillian Buriak - ACS Axial: Your Bond With Chemistry Research". ACS Axial: Your Bond With Chemistry Research. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  3. ↑ "Editor Profile". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
  4. ↑ "Buriak Research Group | We are a chemistry research group at the University of Alberta". buriak.chem.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
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