Priti Wanjara
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Priti Wanjara is an Indian-Canadian metallurgist and an expert on welding and additive manufacturing. She is a principal researcher for the National Research Council of Canada,[1] and head of metal manufacturing at the National Research Council's Aerospace Research Centre.[2]
Education and career
[edit]At the age of five, Wanjara moved with her family at age five from Mumbai, where she was born, to Montreal.[3] She has a 1993 bachelor's degree in materials engineering from McGill University. She continued at McGill for a Ph.D., completed in 1998.[4]
She has been at the National Research Council Aerospace Research Centre since 2002, and was named as a principal research officer there in 2020.[4] She also holds an adjunct faculty affiliation at McGill University.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Wanjara is a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute,[5] of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM),[1] of the Canadian Welding Bureau,[1] of ASM International,[6] and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.[7]
She was the 2009 recipient of the Brimacombe Award of the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM,[8] the 2011 recipient of the Silver Medal Award of ASM International,[9] and a recipient of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal of the government of Canada.[10] She is a distinguished lecturer of CIM for 2024–2025.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Priti Wanjara", Past award winners, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ "Priti Wanjara", Board members: board director, Neutrons Canada, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ a b "5 Women Who Are Changing The World Through Science", Canadian Living, 14 August 2024, retrieved 2025-07-22; excerpted from Runte, Roseann O’Reilly (2024), Canadians Who Innovate: The Trailblazers and Ideas that are Changing the World, Simon & Schuster
- ^ a b "Priti Wanjara", ORCiD, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ Fellows, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ ASM Fellows 2014, ASM International, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ "Wanjara, Priti", Directory of Fellows, Canadian Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ MetSoc Brimacombe Award, Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ Silver Medal Award (PDF), ASM International, 2025, retrieved 2025-07-22
- ^ "Priti Wanjara", Honours recipients, Government of Canada, retrieved 2025-07-22
External links
[edit]- Priti Wanjara publications indexed by Google Scholar
