Dr. B. Mario Pinto is a Canadian chemical biologist, academic and the former President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Prior to his appointment at NSERC, Pinto served as a chemistry professor and as the Vice-President of Research at Simon Fraser University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Chemical Institute of Canada and the American Chemical Society.
He resigned as president of NSERC on September 21, 2018.
He was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) of Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, on October 3, 2019, to commence in February 2020.
Education
Pinto received his undergraduate degree and doctorate from Queen's University in Ontario. He completed his post-doctoral work at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in France and the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. Pinto has published over 225 papers.
Awards and honours
Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society in 1992
CSC Bernard Belleau Award in 2002
Elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003
R.U. Lemieux Award in 2012
Alfred Bader Award in 2013
Montreal Medal in 2014 awarded for his "outstanding contribution to the profession of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada."
References
External links
News.gc.ca
Finance.yahoo.com
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian biologists Academic staff of Simon Fraser University Queen's University at Kingston alumni