First XPRIZE Canada Hub at UCalgary cohort puts academic expertise to work on global challenges - University of Calgary
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How can food improve human health? What stands in the way of recycling textile waste? And who are the key players across Canada’s innovation ecosystem? Those are some of the questions University of Calgary researchers explored through the inaugural XPRIZE Canada Hub Fellowship and Internship Program, which gives students and postdoctoral scholars hands-on experience within the global XPRIZE ecosystem. The XPRIZE Canada Hub at UCalgary, established in 2025, connects Canadian researchers and innovators with XPRIZE’s approach and global network to tackle large-scale challenges. Its Fellowship and Internship Program combines project-based work with access to practical experience, mentorship and perspectives beyond participants’ own disciplines. For the Hub’s first fellow Dr. Anirban Kundu, PhD — a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Casey Hubert, BSc’98, PhD’04, a professor in the Faculty of Science — the fellowship means stepping beyond his research on subsurface hydrogen as a low-carbon geoenergy source to investigating challenges in food, health and textile waste.
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