RSC Desktop Seminar: Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Digital Discovery Outstanding Paper Award winner

Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon is a full professor in the Department of Construction Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal, Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Multifunctional Materials in the perspective of the ecological transition and the circular economy. She studied a bachelor of engineering at Dalhousie University, a master’s degree in biological sciences at the University of Montreal, a PhD in geoenvironmental engineering from the University of Cambridge. She was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich.
 
Her research is on functional materials, robotic 3D printing of mortars, bio-based materials, earth construction, valorisation of industrial by-products in cement, concrete and other value-added materials, materials in a circular economy perspective, as well as the sustainability of buildings and cities. She firmly believes that modelling and artificial intelligence have become indispensable tools for designing advanced materials and understanding their behaviour.

Linda Hung is a Senior Research Scientist in the Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery division at Toyota Research Institute (TRI). She obtained her PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University, and held research positions at the Ecole Polytechnique (France), the University of Illinois Chicago, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology before joining TRI in 2017.
 
She has a background in density functional theory and other first-principles simulation methods, with applications in computational spectroscopy.  Her current work explores how machine learning can accelerate materials simulation, and how to integrate data-driven methods into discovery workflows. Her research focuses on energy materials and involves the development of software tools aiming to shorten the materials innovation timeline.