Rate My Professor Dongling Ma

Professor Dongling Ma is a full professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in the Engineering faculty. She joined INRS in 2006 and serves as the scientific head of the Nanomaterials Chemistry and Advanced Optical Characterization Lab at the Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre. Professor Ma holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Advanced Functional Nanocomposites. Her research focuses on the development of novel, highly functional materials and structures at the nanometer scale for applications in energy, environmental, and biomedical fields. Specific areas include the design of high-efficiency, low-cost transition metal and metal oxide nanoparticle catalysts, plasmon-assisted photocatalysis, advanced earth-abundant nanomaterials for photocatalytic water splitting and CO₂ reduction, materials for photocatalytic biomass conversion, and the synthesis, characterization, and biomedical applications of highly luminescent and stable nanoparticles such as near-infrared-emitting quantum dots and multifunctional nanoparticles integrating superparamagnetic and luminescent components.

Professor Ma earned her Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States in 2004, following a master’s degree from Zhejiang University in China. She is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), and a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM). Her group has produced extensive publications in nanomaterials, solar cells, catalysis, and plasmon-enhanced applications, with significant contributions to understanding structure-property relationships in nanoparticles and their use in solar fuels, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and biological process tracking. Professor Ma has received recognition including an award from the Chemical Institute of Canada for her work in materials chemistry.