Fiorenzo Vetrone

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Fiorenzo Vetrone is Full Professor at INRS, Université du Québec and Co-Director of the Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials (QCAM). Professor Vetrone is a pioneer in the field of rare earth doped upconverting nanoparticles, publishing the first paper in the field. His work has been highly cited, and he has given more than 200 invited, keynote, and plenary lectures at prestigious conferences as well as seminars at universities and research institutions around the world. He has won several prestigious awards including the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding research in chemistry. He is currently a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute.