Phil De Luna | |
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| Born | November 23, 1991 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Fields | CO2 conversion, hydrogen, artificial intelligence |
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| Thesis | Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for CO2 Conversion (2019) |
| Website | www |
Phil De Luna is a Canadian materials scientist. He is currently the chief carbon scientist and head of engineering at Deep Sky, a Canadian carbon removals project developer.[1]
De Luna earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Windsor (2013), a Master of Science degree from the University of Ottawa (2015) and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Toronto (2018).[2] His doctoral research identified new electrocatalytic materials for the conversion of carbon dioxide into renewable fuels and feedstocks.[3] During this period, he worked as a research scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2016) and Tokyo Research Institute (2018).
De Luna then began to serve as a director at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), heading the "Materials for Clean Fuels Challenge Program," a collaborative research program on Canadian-made clean energy technology (2019-2022).[4][5] De Luna's research has focused on decarbonization, particularly CO2 conversion, hydrogen, and artificial intelligence for materials science.
In 2022, De Luna was appointed an adjunct professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto.[6] He has also served at UC Berkeley as a visiting researcher.[2] Also in 2022, De Luna published the book "Accelerated Materials Discovery: How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Speed Up Development" about using artificial intelligence and robotics to accelerate traditional experimental discovery methods for new materials development.[7] He was a consultant for McKinsey & Company (2022-2023) before joining Deep Sky.[8] He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.[9][10]
De Luna has published extensively in Canadian media on integrating minorities into scientific research and the need for engagement between scientists and politics.[11][12][13] He holds a variety of board and fellowship positions and serves as the board chair at Carbon Management Canada.[14]
De Luna ran for the Green Party of Canada in Toronto—St. Paul's in the 2021 Canadian federal election.[15][16][17] He finished fourth, behind the incumbent Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, as well as the Conservative and NDP candidates.[18]
De Luna is of Filipino descent. He lives in Toronto with his partner, an operating room nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children.[5][13]
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Toronto—St. Paul's | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Carolyn Bennett | 22,844 | 49.22 | -5.09 | $88,807.52 | |||
| Conservative | Stephanie Osadchuk | 13,587 | 25.30 | +3.69 | $26,751.24 | |||
| New Democratic | Sidney Coles[19] | 9,036 | 16.83 | +1.05 | $31,250.09 | |||
| Green | Phil De Luna | 3,214 | 5.99 | -0.77 | $30,817.63 | |||
| People's | Peter Remedios | 1,432 | 2.67 | +1.12 | $1,412.77 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 53,698 | 98.93 | – | $112,245.61 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 580 | 1.07 | +0.43 | |||||
| Turnout | 54,278 | 65.48 | -4.91 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 82,891 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -4.39 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[20] | ||||||||
