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Professor Mario Leclerc is the recipient of the Prix Marie-Victorin 2016.
This prestigious scientific award is presented annually by the
Government of Quebec. This award is the highest honor given to a
researcher for his entire career in natural science and engineering.
He is a new Fellow (Class of 2017) of The Royal Society of Canada,
the highest honor a scholar can achieve in Arts, Humanities
and Sciences.

Laboratory's news

December 2024 Mona Hamidzad Sangachin has successfully defended her PhD thesis on Strategies for Well-Defined Conjugated Polymers via DHAP. Congratulations Dr. Mona Hamidzad Sangachin, PhD chemistry!

December 2024 According to Google Scholar, Professor Leclerc has a h-index of 107 with more than 51 100 citations

August 2024 New publication on Highly transmissive, Processable, Highly Conducting and Stable Polythiophene Derivatives via Direct (Hetero)arylation Polymerization,

May 2024 Catherine Beaumont has successfully defended her PhD thesis on new self-doped polymers. Congratulations Dr. Catherine Beaumont, Ph.D chemistry!

October 2023 Professor Mario Leclerc is awarded is awarded an honorary doctorate by University of Patras, Greece.

June 2023 Serge Beaupré is the recipient of the 1st Prize of prix d'excellence des professionnels et professionnelles de recherche - Fonds Nature et Technologie du FRQ, édition 2023.

May 2023. Two undergrads students begin their summer internship: Audrey Poitras, Marissa Bélanger.

October 2021. According to Google Scholar, Professor Leclerc has a h-index of 100 with more than 43 000 citations.

October 2021. 300th publication for Professor Mario Leclerc, Congratulations!

November 2018. Professeur Mario Leclerc is on the Highly Cited Researchers 2018 list from Clarivate Analytics (cross-field category). He is among an elite group recognized for exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

September 2017. Prof. Mario Leclerc has been elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada, the highest honor a scholar can achieve in Arts, Humanities and Sciences.

October 2016. Professor Mario Leclerc is the recipient of the Prix Marie-Victorin 2016. This prestigious scientific award is presented annually by the Government of Quebec. This award is the highest honor given to a researcher for his entire career in natural science and engineering.

September 2014. 250th publication for Professor Mario Leclerc, Congratulations!

June .2014. Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. They published a new list of Highly Cited Researchers that represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over three thousand researchers (198 researcher in chemistry) earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as Highly Cited Papers—ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication, earning them the mark of exceptional impact. Professeur Mario Leclerc is among this short and prestigious list.

Mars 2014. Professor Mario Leclerc is the recipient of 2014 Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship awarded by Canada Council for the Arts.The selected projects are chosen by the national Killam Selection Committee, comprised of 15 eminent scientists and scholars representing a broad range of disciplines. The Fellowships support scholars engaged in research projects of outstanding merit and widespread interest in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering and interdisciplinary studies within these fields.

September 2011. Professor Mario Leclerc was awarded the Urgel-Archambault 2011 prize. This prize underlines the important contribution of a scientist in the field of physics science, mathematics, informatics and engineering.

February 2011. 200th publication for Professor Mario Leclerc, Congratulations!