Young Scientist Award to Dr. Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez
21 April 2022
The MAC Young Scientist Award recognizes is given to a young scientist who has made a significant international research contribution in a promising start to a scientific career. The areas of research considered are any or all of those covered by the Mineralogical Association of Canada. The scientist will have received their PHD not more than 15 years before the award. The scientist must be a Canadian working anywhere in the world or a scientist of any nationality working in Canada. Research areas include mineralogy, crystallography, petrology, geochemistry, mineral deposits, and related fields of study.
The 2022 Young Scientist Award goes to Dr. Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez, an assistant professor at University of Alberta. She got her BSc in geology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and her PhD at Virginia Tech. She completed a 3 year Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at ETH, Zurich and worked as a researcher for one year at University of Arizona. Pilar’s expertise is in mineral deposits and fluid geochemistry. Her current research focuses on the tungsten-gold occurrences in the Tungsten belt (YK, NWT), orogenic gold mineralization in the Yellowknife Gold Belt (NWT), and epithermal mineralization in the Toodoggone distrit (BC).