Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller

Chemistry and Physics,

University of Toronto

R. J. Dwayne Miller has published over 300 papers, notably contributions leading to the development of ultrabright electron sources to light up atomic motions. His group were the first to achieve the long-held goal to watch atomic motions during the defining moments of chemistry and have attained the fundamental space-time limit to imaging chemistry. His research accomplishments have been recognized with numerous awards including the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (USA), Sloan Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellow, Dreyfus Award, Polanyi Award, Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Rutherford Medal, Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS) E. Bright Wilson Award, and most recently the European Physical Society (EPS) Award in Laser Science for “Achieving the Fundamental Limit to Min. Invasive Surgery with Complete Biodiagnostics”. These latter concepts are now going to clinical trials with the promise of enabling scar free surgery with broad medical applications. He is also a strong advocate for science promotion earning the RSC McNeil Medal (2011) and the Helen M. Free Award of the ACS for founding Science Rendezvous, now in its 18th year, aimed to make science accessible to the general public, including remote northern communities, with over 200,000 attendees (>6000 volunteers) annually. He is a Fellow of the CIC, OSA, RSC, RSC (Chemistry, UK) and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.