Three CivMin faculty members have received Connaught New Researcher Awards.
Pictured left to right:
- Professor Trevor Carey for Building Resilience: Assessing Earthquake Impacts on Geotechnical Infrastructure Soils in the GTA
- Professor Seungjae Lee for AI Building Energy Modeller – Transforming Building Energy Modelling with Generative AI
- Professor Minghan Xu for Multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of spray freezing for renewable mine heating and cooling in northern regions
The award is intended to help early-career faculty members establish their research programs and increase competitiveness for external funding. Eligible applicants include all full-time tenure stream faculty at the Assistant Professor level who are within five years of their tenure stream appointment and within ten years of having completed a PhD or equivalent. Up to 50 awards are funded annually.