Long-time Engineering Physics professor, Peter Mascher, has been honoured by the Electrochemical Society’s Dielectric Science and Technology Division with its Thomas D. Callinan Award.
The award, established in 1967, has honored the extraordinary accomplishments of its namesake and was presented to Mascher for outstanding contributions to the dielectric science and technology field and for advancing the scientific understanding and contributing to the technological development of nanoscale luminescent materials.
Mascher has been a faculty member at McMaster since 1989 and holds the William Sinclair Chair in Optoelectronics. He leads active research groups involved in the fabrication and characterization of thin films for optoelectronic applications, the development and application of silicon-based nanostructures, and the characterization of defects in solids by positron annihilation spectroscopy.
His research work has been continuously funded for more than 30 years by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and has drawn funding from the Canada Foundation of Innovation, several federal and provincial Centres of Excellence, and industry, for a lifetime total surpassing $25M.
Since 2010, Mascher has led a collaborative initiative to transform the McMaster Nuclear Reactor into one of the world’s brightest positron sources for applied and fundamental research.
The scope, scale and longevity of Peter’s research enterprise at McMaster is significant. I applaud Peter for this well-deserved recognition for his ongoing contributions to advancing nanoscale luminescent materials research. His groundbreaking work is inspiring the next generation of researchers.
Only one other McMaster Engineering professor has received the Thomas D. Callinan Award. Jamal Deen, Distinguished University Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the McMaster School of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Member of Engineering Physics, was the honouree in 2002.