Audrey Moores
Associate Professor
Chemistry
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-2007, Yale University) Ph.D. (Chemistry, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique) M.Sc. (Chemistry, 2002, Ecole Polytechnique) B.Sc in Chemistry (2001, Ecole Polytechnique) Co-associate director of the FQRNT "Centre en la Chimie Verte et la Catalyse" Program Committee member of the NSERC-CREATE in "Green Chemistry" Associate Editor, RSC Advances, Royal Chemical Society CNC-IUPAC travel award, 2016 Outside Quebec Exchange Professorship, 2014, awarded by FRQNT, in support for a 2 month visit at Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, Renewal, Tier II, 2012-2017. Science Communication Fellowships for Green Chemistry, 2011, awarded by Environmental Health News and Advancing Green Chemistry. Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, Tier II, 2007-2012 Best PhD Thesis Award, Ecole Polytechnique, 2005
Research Interest
Nanoparticles and Catalysis for Green Chemistry
Publications
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M. Malca, H. Bao, T. Bastaille, N. K. Saade, J. M. Kinsella, T. FriÅ¡Äić, A. Moores,* “Mechanically activated solvent-free assembly of ultrasmall Bi2S3 nanoparticles: a novel, simple and sustainable means to access chalcogenide nanoparticles, used as contrast agentsâ€, Chem. Mater. 2017, 29 (18), 7766–7773.
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M. Y. Malca, P.-O. Ferko, T. FriÅ¡Äić, A. Moores,* “Solid-state mechanochemical ω-functionalization of poly (ethylene glycol)â€, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 1963-1968
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A. Gellé, A. Moores,* “Water splitting catalyzed by plasmonic nanoparticles enhanced titanium dioxideâ€, Pure Appl. Chem., 2017, in press (Invited contribution to the themed issue for “NICE 2016 Conference on biobased, bioinspired materialsâ€)
