We are part of an interdisciplinary NSERC CREATE project entitled: the Biomedical & Environmental Sensor Training (BEST) Program. The Biomedical & Environmental Sensor Training (BEST) program is primarily a graduate training program for the next generation of sensor scientists and engineers (referred to as highly qualified personnel or HQP) to research and develop new sensor technologies to address Canada’s needs for rapid, reliable, and accurate sensors and sensor networks. The program is funded from September 2025 through to August 2031. 

The BEST program will be the first of its kind in Canada and will bring together a team of biochemists, chemists, physicists and engineers at Simon Fraser University and the University of Waterloo. BEST HQP will learn from biomedical and environmental sensor industrial companies and government agencies. Importantly, internships, one-on-one mentorship, and unique networking opportunities will provide enhanced professional skills to ensure HQP job readiness for careers in industry, government, non-governmental organizations and/or academia.

We have also participated in interdisciplinary projects in the past that include Engineered Nickel Catalysts for Electrochemical Clean Energy (Ni Electro Can).