2024, Fellow, The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE)

2024, Advanced Materials Laureate, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden

2023, Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC)

2023, Distinguished Materials Science Lectureship, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

2023, Fellow, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden

2023, Oladis Troconis de Rincón Applied Technology Award, Association for Materials Protection & Performance (AMPP), U.S.

2023, Distinguished Research Leadership Award (Engineering), University of Calgary

2022, Distinguished Lecturers Award, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)

2022, M. Brian Ives Lectureship Award, American Society for Materials (ASM) International

2022, Service Award, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME)

2021, Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), U.K.

2021, Fellow, Chinese Society for Corrosion and Protection (CSCP)

2021, Fellow, Institute of Corrosion (ICorr), U.K.

2021, Medal, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden

2021, Technical Achievement Award, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), U.S.

2020, Engineering Research Achievement Award (Individual), University of Calgary

2019, Distinguished Materials Scientist Award, Canadian Metallurgy and Materials Society (MetSoc)

2019, Engineering Research Achievement Award (Team), University of Calgary

2018, Engineering Research Achievement Award (Team), University of Calgary

2018, Engineering Teaching Achievement Award, University of Calgary

2017, Metal Chemistry Award, Canadian Metallurgy and Materials Society (MetSoc)

2017, Engineering Teaching Achievement Award, University of Calgary

2016, Fellow, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), U.S.

2015, Engineering Research Achievement Award (Individual), University of Calgary

2014, H.H. Uhlig Award, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), U.S.

2010, Engineering Students’ Society Teaching Excellence Award

2010, Canada Research Chair in Pipeline Engineering (renewal)

2009, Engineering Research Excellence Award, University of Calgary

2005, Canada Research Chair in Pipeline Engineering

2000, Industrial Research Fellowship, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada

2024, Chair, Symposium on Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metallic Materials: Pipeline transport, hydrogen storage, and other applications, European Conference on Fracture 2024, Zagreb, Croatia, Aug. 26-30.

2024, Member, International Scientific Committee, European Conference on Fracture 2024, Zagreb, Croatia, Aug. 26-30.

2023, Co-Chair, Symposium on Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals: Problems and Solutions, the 5th International Conference on Structural Integrity, Funchal, Portugal, Aug. 29-Sept. 1.

2021: Chair, Session of Corrosion Assessment and Management, the 1^st Corrosion and Materials Degradation Web Conference, May 17-19.

2021: Co-Chair, Symposium on Materials Engineering, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) International Congress 2021, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, Jun. 27-30.

2020: Chair, Symposium in Materials Engineering, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) International Congress 2020, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, Jun. 21-24.

2020: Co-Chair, Symposium in Corrosion and Degradation, Conference of Metallurgists (COM) 2020, MetSoc, Toronto, ON, Canada, Aug. 20-24.

2020: Member, Scientific Committee, the 7^th International Conference on Mining, Material and Metallurgical Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 16-18.

2019: Chair, Symposium on Materials Engineering, International Congress of Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), London, ON, Canada, Jun. 2-5.

2019: Member, Scientific Committee, the 6^th International Conference on Mining, Material and Metallurgical Engineering (MMME'19) conference, Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 15-17.

2018: Co-Organizer, Symposium of Environmental Degradation and Embrittlement of Structural Metals, Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2018 Conference, Columbus, OH, USA, Oct. 14–18.

2018: Member, Scientific Committee, the 5^th International Conference on Mining, Material and Metallurgical Engineering,  Madrid, Spain, Aug. 16-18.

2018: Co-Chair, Pipelines Track, the 3rd Corrosion Risk Management Conference, NACE International, Houston, TX, US, Jun. 11-13.

2018: Member, Scientific Program Review Committee, NanoTech 2018 Conference & Exhibition, Anaheim, CA, US, May 13-16.

2018: Member, Organizing Committee, International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Engineering 2018, San Diego, CA, US, Feb. 7-9.

2017: Member, Committee of Scientific Advisors, the 2017 Baltic Conference Series, International Association of Advanced Materials, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 8-11.

2017: Member of Technical Committee, the 3^rd Workshop and Symposium on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environment, St. John’s, Canada, Oct. 18-20.

2016: Member, Scientific Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Mining, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 21-23.

2016: Chair, Task Group Meeting on Pipeline Coating Failures and Cathodic Protection Shielding, Corrosion'2016, NACE, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Mar. 9.

2015: Member of Scientific Committee, the 2^nd International Conference on Mining, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 20-21.

2015: Member of Technical Program Committee, the 25^th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE, Kona, Hawaii, US, Jun. 21-26.

2014: Member of Technical Program Committee and Co-Lead of the Thematic Area of Carbon Capture, Transportation and Storage, the 2015 Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE) conference, Calgary, AB, Canada, Oct., 2015.

2014: Member of Technical Program Committee, the 24^th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE, Busan, Korea, Jun. 15-20.

2013: Session Chair, the 23^rd International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, ISOPE, Anchorage, Alaska, US, Jun. 30-Jul. 5.

2011: Co-organizer, the 2^nd Workshop on Pipeline Materials Reliability, Calgary, April.

2010: Chair, International Symposium on Fracture Control in Engineering, the 47^th Conference of Metallurgists of CIM, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 2–6.

2010: Organizer, Workshop on Pathway for Future Collaborations – Network on Pipeline Engineering R & D, Calgary, AB, Canada, Mar. 2.

2023-present, Member, Technical Advisory Panel, Investigate Damage Mechanisms for Hydrogen and Hydrogen/Natural Gas Blends to Determine Inspection Intervals for ILI Tools, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), DOT, U.S.

2022-present, Member, Committee for Hydrogen Storage Supplement to CSA Z341 Code, Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

2018-2022: Board Director and Chair of the Technical Committee on Materials Technology, Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME)

2019: Chair, Site Visit Committee, NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Corrosion Control and Materials Performance in Nuclear Power Systems of Queen's University

2017-2019: Member of Signature Project Task Group, NACE International, the Corrosion Society (composed of NACE Fellows only)

2015: Country (Canada) Leader, NACE IMPACT (International Measures of Prevention, Application and Economics of Corrosion Technologies) Global Study Program

2014-present: Chair, NACE International Task Group (TG) 521 “Testing of nonshielding property of pipeline coatings to cathodic protection”

2014-present: Faculty Advisor, NACE International Calgary Student Section

2014-2017: Treasurer and Board Director, NACE Foundation of Canada

2014: Chair, Site Visit Committee for NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Corrosion and Materials Performance in Nuclear Power Systems

2014: Member, Panel on Kitimat West Douglas Channel Corridor Analysis, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

2013–2014: Member, Alberta Innovate-CEPA Steering Committee on Transmission Pipeline Roadmap

2012–2013: Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Pipeline Transportation of Diluted Bitumen

2012–2013: Member, Committee of Chairs and Professorship, University of Calgary

2011-present: Member of Editorial Board, Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology

2009–2011: Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Fracture Research Corporation

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering (Elsevier) (2021-present)

Associate Editor, Surface Science and Technology (Springer) (2023-present)

Associate Editor, Transaction of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (2018-2022)

Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Gas Corrosion, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (2021-2022)

Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on New Anti-corrosion Coatings for Marine Materials, Coatings (2021-2022)

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Pipeline Corrosion, Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology (2014-2015)

Member of Editorial Board of Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, Oil/Gas Storage and Transportation, Corrosion and Materials Degradation

Theme Editor, Pipeline Engineering, Encyclopedia of Life Support System (EOLSS), UNESCO (2006-2009)

2023:

Nov. 30, "Investigation of Flint, Michigan Water Crisis for Corrosion Management of Water Pipes", Mini-Forum on Failure Analysis of Water Pipes, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (virtual).

Nov. 16, "Hydrogen embrittlement of pipelines transporting hydrogen and the requirements of materials properties", International Forum on Hydrogen Energy Technology, Xi-An, China (virtual).

Nov. 4, "Gaseous hydrogen embrittlement: Theoretical and applied aspects", Distinguished Materials Science Lectureship, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.

Oct. 26, "Defect assessment for integrity management of pipelines", The 8th Oil/Gas Pipeline Integrity Management Conference, Chengdu, China.

Sept. 26, "Discuss the further R&D on gaseous hydrogen embrittlement of pipelines", Symposium on Materials Suitability and Evaluation Standards of Hydrogen Pipelines, Wuhai, China (virtual).

Sept. 18, "Assessment of buckling failure of corroded subsea pipelines", International Marine Corrosion and Protection Conference, Qingdao, China (virtual).

Aug. 31, "Study of hydrogen atom distribution at metallurgical features and mechanical defects contained in pipeline steels by scanning Kelvin probe force microscopy and finite element modeling",  Thematic/Special Symposium on Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals: Problems and Solutions, 2023 International Conference on Structural Integrity, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

Aug. 30, "Fundamental insights into the hydrogen embrittlement of pipelines in high-pressure gaseous environments", 2023 International Conference on Structural Integrity, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

Jul. 19, "Development of CO₂ pipelines and modeling of the internal corrosion", the 21st Oil/Gas Storage and Transportation Conference, Qingdao, Shandong, China. 

May 4, "Hydrogen transport by pipelines and the materials compatibility in high-pressure hydrogen gas environments”, ASM International Vancouver Chapter, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Apr. 19, “Assessment of the materials compatibility of existing pipelines repurposing for hydrogen transport”, ASM International Calgary Chapter, Calgary Petroleum Club, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Apr. 12, “Development of high-pressure hydrogen pipelines and hydrogen embrittlement as a threat to pipeline safety”, China International Pipeline Conference (CIPC), Beijing, China.

Mar. 15, "Suitability of existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport - Risk of steel pipes to hydrogen embrittlement", Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Calgary Branch, Calgary, Canada.

Mar. 7, "Internal corrosion of pipelines: Mechanism, modeling and management", King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Mar. 6, "Hydrogen transport by pipelines and the materials compatibility in high-pressure hydrogen gas environments", King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Feb. 13, "Hydrogen embrittlement of aged pipelines in high-pressure gaseous environments", Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.  

Jan. 27, "Hydrogen transport by pipelines and the materials compatibility in high-pressure hydrogen gas environments", University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, US.

2022:

Nov. 24, “Development of technical assessment program for hydrogen atom accumulation at corrosion defects and dents and the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility of aged pipelines for hydrogen transport”, the 14^th International Conference on Pipeline Safety and the 1^st International Symposium on Hydrogen Transport and Storage, Beijing, China.

Nov. 2, "Challenges associated with hydrogen embrittlement in pipelines", International Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) Canada 2022 Roundtable, Calgary, Canada. 

Oct. 22, "Studies of hydrogen-steel interactions at an atomic scale", International Forum on Mechanics and Engineering, College of Pipelines and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East), Qingdao, China.

Oct. 19, "Technical assessment of the suitability of aged natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport", ASM-AMPP Calgary Chapters Technical Luncheon, Calgary, Canada.

Aug. 30, "Materials constraints and safety assessment in conversion of existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport", Aberdeen Branch Annual Corrosion Forum, Institute of Corrosion, Aberdeen, UK.

Aug. 9, "Development of hydrogen pipeline technology: Compatibility of pipe steels in high-pressure gaseous environments", Evraz North America, Regina, Canada.

Aug. 8, "Pipelines for hydrogen transport and the pipe materials compatibility in high-pressure gaseous environments", Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Regina, Canada.

Jun. 29, "Improved resistance of pipeline steels to hydrogen embrittlement for high-pressure hydrogen gas transport", the 9^th Pipeline Materials Workshop on Pipeline Sustainability for Alternate Energy Transport, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Jun. 1, "Suitability of existing natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transport - Risk of steel pipes to hydrogen embrittlement", Schulich Innovates Seminar Series, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada.

May 18, "Corrosion and its modeling for steel tubulars in SAGD/CO₂ co-injection systems", International Conference on Petroleum Tubular Goods, Equipment & Materials (TEC 2022), Xi'An, China (virtual).

May 10, "Suitability of pipe steels for hydrogen embrittlement-preventive pipeline technology development", China University of Petroleum (East), Qingdao, China (virtual). 

Apr. 13, "Materials constrains and hydrogen embrittlement risk in repurposing of aged natural gas pipelines for hydrogen transmission", NACE Northern Area West Conference, Edmonton, Canada.

Mar. 29, "Materials constraints and hydrogen embrittlement risk of aged pipelines for hydrogen service", 2022 Technology for Future and Ageing Pipelines (TFAP) conference, European Pipeline Research Group (EPRG), Ghent, Belgium.

Mar. 23, "Pipelines for hydrogen transport: Benefits, uniqueness in Canada and materials constraints", ASM International Montreal Chapter, Montreal, Canada (virtual).

Mar. 12, "Graphene-based electrochemical biosensor for high-performance bacterial detection in aqueous environments", Advanced Materials Lecture Series - Fellow talk, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (virtual).

Feb. 25, "Repurposing existing pipelines for hydrogen service: A materials safety perspective", NACE Calgary Section Webinar, Calgary, Canada.