By Prof. Jamal Chaouki, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada.
Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Biography
Prof. Chaouki is full professor from 1995 at Polytechnique, Montréal. He is affiliated professor at UM6P where he is spending his sabbatical right now. He has supervised 60 PDFs, 55 PhDs and 42 Masters. He published more than 350 articles in refereed journals and more than 320 in different reviewed proceedings and more than 450 other scientific articles and edited 18 books. He has 40 patents on different processes. He is member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He received many awards. He received the R.S. Jane Memorial Award in 2018 for an exceptional achievement to the field of chemical engineering or industrial chemistry in Canada and last year the “Excellence in Research and Innovation
Awards” at Polytechnique. This year he will receive the SCI Kalev Pugi Award and Honoris Genius 2021 Innovation from OIQ. He has co-chaired 10 International Conferences including the 8th WCCE 2009 where he has acted as technical director, he was also member of the 10th WCCE 2017 and he was the president of the Fluidization 15th Int. Conf. He is now supervising 52 researchers (25 PhDs, 20 PDFs, 1MScA, 5 research associates and 1 researcher). He is a member of the Board of Polytechnique and several companies. He is world-renowned consultant for at least 20 national and international companies. He is internationally recognized for his skills in process development and scale-up. He has created 6 start-ups with his students (the last are Pyrowave, Ecolomondo, RMTech and PyroCycle). He is Principal Chaire Holder of Total Group in hydrodynamic modeling of multiphase processes at extreme conditions and Joined Laboratory with OCP-UM6P. His work is mainly dedicaded to develop processes from waste, biomass and complex feedstocks to heat & power, fuels and chemicals.
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