Audrey H. Moores

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Audrey Moores is a Full Professor of Chemistry and associate director of the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR) at McGill University. She completed her PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2005, under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Le Floch and received the Best Thesis award of the Ecole Polytechnique that year. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University in 2006 under the guidance of Prof. Robert H. Crabtree, funded by a Lavoisier fellowship from the European Union. She serves as a topic editor for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. She became a member (2020) and president (2024-26) of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, which is the junior body of the equivalent to a Canadian Academy of Science. Between 2007 and 2017, she held a Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry.

In 2019 she received a Fessenden Professorship awarded by the faculty of science at McGill University towards the commercial development of the clean transformation of crustacean shells into chitosan. In 2021 she received the Canadian Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award for Green Chemistry. She was also a university-funded visiting professor at the University of Tokyo from January to June 2024. In 2024, she chaired the Gordon Research Conference in Green Chemistry. Since 2017, Audrey is one of the three co-leaders of Materials group of the McGill Sustainable Systems Initiative (MSSI). She has co-created and co-organized for 5 years a workshop on sustainable innovation through green chemistry in partnership with the CREATE in Green Chemistry, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management and the Trottier Institute for Sustainable Engineering and Design (2012-17).

With her group, she focuses on sustainable solutions for nanoparticles and biopolymer synthesis as well as catalyzed reactions, with an interest in waste biomass valorization, earth abundant starting materials and high atom economy. She is also an expert and global teacher of green and sustainable chemistry, which she has taught in Mexico, Ukraine, Indonesia and Japan and is a passionate public speaker on issues of women in science, green chemistry and languages of research.

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