Federico Rosei, Professor at the Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications of INRSin Varennes (QC) Canada has been elected Vice President (2022-2026) of theInternational Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI). IETI is a non-profitinternational academic organization including Nobel Prize Laureates, TuringAward Laureates and Wolf Prize Laureates.

“Beingelected to IETI vice president is a great honour,” he said. “I look forward toserving the community and I hope I will be able to support our colleagues andmembers in this role.”

Federico Rosei (MSc (1996) and PhD (2001) from the University ofRome “La Sapienza”) is Full Professor at the Centre énergie, Matériaux etTélécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes(QC) Canada, where he served as Director (07/2011–03/2019). He held the CanadaResearch Chair (Junior) in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003–2013)and since May 2016 he holds the Canada Research Chair (Senior) inNanostructured Materials. Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair inMaterials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage.

Dr. Rosei’s research interests focus on structure/propertyrelationships in nanomaterials and their use as building blocks in emergingtechnologies. His research has been supported by multiple funding sources fromthe Province of Quebec, the Federal Government of Canada as well as internationalagencies, for a total in excess of M$ 18. He has worked in partnership withover twenty Canadian R&D companies. He is co-inventor of three patents andhas published over 415 articles inprestigious international journals (including Science, Nature Photonics,Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem.Soc., Adv. Func. Mater., Adv. En. Mat., Nanolett., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Small, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nanoscale, Chem. Comm., Appl.Phys. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, etc.), has been invited to speak at over 330 international conferences and hasgiven over 250 seminars andcolloquia, over 60 professionaldevelopment lectures and 40 publiclectures in 48 countries on allinhabited continents. His publications have been cited over 18,800 times and his H index is 72.

He is Fellow of numerous prestigious national and internationalsocieties and academies, including: the Royal Society of Canada, the EuropeanAcademy of Science, the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences andArts, the African Academy of Sciences, the World Academy of Art and Science,the World Academy of Ceramics, the American Physical Society, AAAS, theAmerican Ceramic Society, the Optical Society of America, SPIE, the CanadianAcademy of Engineering, ASM International, the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK),the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, theInstitute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining, the Engineering Institute ofCanada, the Australian Institute of Physics, Honorary Fellow of the ChineseChemical Society, Foreign Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering, ForeignMember of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Senior Member of IEEE, Alumnus ofthe Global Young Academy and Member of the Sigma Xi Society.

He has received several awards and honours, including the FQRNTStrategic Professorship (2002–2007), the Tan Chin Tuan visiting Fellowship (NTU2008), the Senior Gledden Visiting Fellowship (UWA 2009), Professor at Large atUWA (2010–2012), a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the European Union(2001), a junior Canada Research Chair (2003–2013), a senior Canada ResearchChair (2016–2023) a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award (von Humboldt foundation2011), the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry (Royal Society of Canada2011), the Herzberg Medal (Canadian Association of Physics 2013), the BrianIves lectureship award (ASM international 2013), the Award for Excellence inMaterials Chemistry (Canadian Society for Chemistry 2014), the NSERC EWR SteacieMemorial Fellowship (2014), the José Vasconcelos Award for Education (WorldCultural Council 2014), the IEEE NTC Distinguished Lectureship 2015–2016, theLash Miller Award (Electrochemical Society 2015), the Chang Jiang Scholar Award(China), the Khwarizmi International Award (Iran), the Recognition forExcellence in Mentorship (American Vacuum Society 2015), the Selby Fellowship(Australian Academy of Sciences 2016), the John C. Polanyi Award (CanadianSociety for Chemistry 2016), the Outstanding Engineer Award (IEEE Canada 2017),the President’s Visiting Fellowship forDistinguished Scientists (Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017), the SigmaXi Distinguished Lectureship (2018–2020), the Sichuan 1000 talent (short term)award, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award (2018), the Changbai Mountain FriendshipAward (2018), the IEEE Montreal Gold Medal (2018), the APS John Wheatley Award(2019), the Blaise Pascal Medal (European Academy of Science 2019), the IEEEPhotonics Society Distinguished Lectureship (2020–2022), the Guangxi Golden Silkball FriendshipAward, the TMS Brimacombe Medal (2021), the WolfsonFellowship (Royal Society), the Prix Urgel Archambault (ACFAS 2021), the Prixdu Quebec “Marie Victorin” (2021) and the Julian C. Smith Medal (EngineeringInstitute of Canada 2022).