Gianluigi Botton
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Dr. Botton uses advanced microscopy techniques to examine materials at the atomic scale and to develop more energy-efficient products including batteries, fuel cells and lighting applications.

Gianluigi Botton has earned several accomplishments that have helped his team compete on the world stage and generate new collaborations between researchers. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials; he was the recipient of the 2017 Faculty of Engineering Research Achievement Award at McMaster and he was selected as the 2017 recipient of Canadian Materials Science Conference Metal Physics Award.