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The winners of the 2025 Fessenden Professorship Awards and Tomlinson Science Awards have been announced.Ìý

TheÌýFessenden Professorship in Science and Innovation Award, named after Canadian electrical engineer Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, was established in 2007 to accelerate the validation and technology transfer of promising concepts in the early- or mid-stages of development and bring them closer to a commercial product and market.

Named for Canadian chemist and philanthropistÌýRichard H. Tomlinson, the Tomlinson Science Awards fund high-risk, early-stage new research projects with a potential for high impact to increase their competitiveness for other funding sources.

Congratulations to this year’s winners!Ìý

2025 Fessenden Professorship Award Ìý

Chao-Jun Li, C³ó±ð³¾¾±²õ³Ù°ù²â â¶Ä‚ 
Synergistic Co-Conversion of Methane and CO2 into High Valued Products

Eric McCalla, Chemistry
All-solid batteries with both high deformability during assembly and rigidity during use

2025 Tomlinson Science AwardsÌý

John Stix, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Understanding and forecasting sudden explosive eruptions

Galen ±á²¹±ô±¹±ð°ù²õ´Ç²Ô, Earth and Planetary Sciences
The Ecological Rise of Eukaryotes

Virginie Millien, Biology and Gregory Dudek, Computer Science
Drifting islands: Biodiversity dynamics associated with sargassum floating mats in near shore waters of Barbados

Lars ÌýL. Iversen, ÌýBiology
Empowering Communities through AI: Real-Time Monitoring of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hsiu-Chin Lin, Computer ScienceÌý
Talk, trust, assist: Safer assistive robots with natural language understandingÌý