Phil was recently featured on a VICE mini-documentary Empowered – a series about how sustainability is changing the way we live, work and play.
This episode focused around Phil and his work on the Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program and was centered around low-carbon hydrogen technologies.
Phil recently participated in a virtual OECD Meeting on April 20th, 2020 – the 11th Session of the Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, and Converging Technologies.
Phil served as a commentator on a project on Collaborative Platforms – providing responses and reactions to work done on assessing collaborative platforms for advanced nanomaterials. The outcome of the working party will be a policy report on the dynamic development of collaborative platforms in global science and technology.
On April 23rd, Phil participated in an a SustainED Webinar Interview on Clean Technology.
SustainED Group is a sustainability education platform that empowers youth-led actions. SustainED aims to equip future leaders with an innate sustainable mindset with targeting programming to high school students, university students, and young professionals.
You can see Phil’s interview and Webinar online here: https://www.sustainedgroup.org/past-webinars/phil-de-luna
Phil was just interviewed by VICE about his work at the National Research Council as a Program Director of the Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program.
This is part of series of stories highlighting young rising stars in Canada’s cleantech space.
Phil was recently interviewed by award-winning storyteller and strategist Denise Withers on her podcast Foreward – How Stories Drive Change.
Scientists need to be able to tell the story of their work if they want to get grants, engage collaborators, shift policy or generate new knowledge. Unfortunately, that’s not something they learn to do in school. And that’s a problem for all of us, because the world needs to know about the incredible research being done, if we want to solve some of our most complex issues.
For tips on how I’ve been able to use stories to advance my career and why it’s so important for scientists to do so check out the podcast here:
Phil was just published as co-first author on “Molecular enhancement of heterogeneous CO2 reduction” in Nature Materials.
This perspective review paper was done in collaboration with researchers from Caltech during Phil’s PhD studies at the University of Toronto.
Phil hosted a panel discussion at GLOBE 2020 – A Tale of Time Frames: Opportunities and Challenges in the CCUS Ecosystem. GLOBE is a leading conference on climate change and sustainability.
Major international bodies, including the IEA and IPCC, acknowledge much of the world will not be able to meet their emissions reduction targets without carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). These technologies are often seen as a stepping-stone in the path to decarbonization. Extrapolating the role of CCUS over the upcoming several decades, this dialogue will answer challenging questions in this dynamic space:
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Phil was recently featured in the Globe and Mail as part of a series of stories to promote the GLOBE Series, North America’s largest and longest running sustainable business summit. This year at GLOBE 2020 I will be chairing a discussion on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS).
You can read more about this and my work at the National Research Council at the Globe and Mail article here.
The Royal Society of Canada , also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists. The primary objective of the RSC is to promote learning and research in the arts, the humanities and the sciences.
Every year the RSC hosts a symposium at its annual general meeting. This year Phil was a panelist on a panel discussing Sustainability. The theme for the day was Science, Trust, and Society – in a world that feels increasingly polarized, how can we ensure that real science is trusted?
Phil recently visited Germany on a collaboration and partnership mission around CO2 conversion technologies. He visited Germany’s national labs – Max Planck Institutes, Helmholtz Institutes, and Fraunhofer Institutes as well as Siemen’s labs across the country to discuss collaboration and partnership opportunities.
Executive Summary
Germany has a number of state-funded projects on CO2 conversion ranging from 1M Euros to >60M Euros spanning industry led, industry-academia/SME, and federal-lab based projects. This research is driven by Germany’s increase of intermittent renewable solar and wind – it has achieved 100% renewable for brief moments in 2018. Connections to the three major nationally funded labs (Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz) as well as to Siemens was established. The meetings were overwhelmingly positive with next steps identified for the majority of interactions.
The size and scale of the activities in Germany with respect to CO2 conversion and electrolysis systems was impressive – hundreds of millions have been invested including a 50MW plant under construction in Leuna, Germany’s largest petrochemical park. It was extremely humbling to see the pace of scale up and the intensity of work being done.
