Priti Wanjara

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]

Early life and education

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. in metallurgical engineering, completed in 1998.[4] [5]

Career

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]

Recognitions, honors and awards

Wanjara is a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute,[6] of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM),[1] of the Canadian Welding Bureau,[1] of ASM International,[7] and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.[8] She is a distinguished lecturer of CIM for 2024–2025.[1]

She has received the following awards:

  • 2009 Brimacombe Award of the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM,[9]
  • 2011 Silver Medal Award of ASM International,[10]
  • 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal of the government of Canada.[11]
  • 2015 Research Excellence Award of the CIM Metallurgical Society. [5]
  • 2025 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award for "landmark achievements in materials manufacturing and sustainability; for promoting and setting new standards for research excellence; and for transformational, global collaborations with academia and industry.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Priti Wanjara", Past award winners, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum, retrieved 2025-07-22
  2. ^ "Priti Wanjara", Board members: board director, Neutrons Canada, retrieved 2025-07-22
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ a b "Priti Wanjara", ORCiD, retrieved 2025-07-22
  5. ^ a b Achievement Award, Priti Wanjara, Ph.D., National Research Council of Canada, SWE, Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers, 2025 Special Section, Conference Edition, "APEX Awards - Society of Women Engineers", swe.org, retrieved 2025-11-05{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Fellows, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, retrieved 2025-07-22
  7. ^ ASM Fellows 2014, ASM International, retrieved 2025-07-22
  8. ^ "Wanjara, Priti", Directory of Fellows, Canadian Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2025-07-22
  9. ^ MetSoc Brimacombe Award, Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM, 27 June 2022, retrieved 2025-07-22
  10. ^ Silver Medal Award (PDF), ASM International, 2025, retrieved 2025-07-22
  11. ^ "Priti Wanjara", Honours recipients, Government of Canada, retrieved 2025-07-22
  12. ^ "SWE Awards, ETHW.org", retrieved 2025-11-05
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