Sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
The R. S. Jane Memorial Award is presented to a person, who, while residing in Canada has made an exceptional achievement to the field of chemical engineering or industrial chemistry.
The R. S. Jane Memorial Award was established to commemorate the memory of the late Dr. Robert Stephen Jane who made an outstanding contribution to the chemical profession and chemical industry in Canada. It is the premier award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.
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The 2024 winner of the R. S. Jane Memorial Award is:
Grant Allen, FCIC
University of Toronto
Grant Allen is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto and Frank Dottori Chair in Pulp and Paper Engineering. His research is in bioprocess engineering, with application to treating wastes and utilizing them for energy and chemical production. He has over 140 publications and has supervised 32 doctoral students, 42 masters and 21 postdoctoral fellows. He has co-led ten industrial research consortia working on environmental and energy challenges in the pulp and paper industry with multidisciplinary teams of up to 15 faculty and their students that engage up to 25 partners from Canada and around the world. He spent a research leave in 1994 with Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma WA, working on biofiltration of air emissions and a research leave at a crown research organization in New Zealand (SCION), working with their green processing team on biorefineries. He has held several leadership positions in academia and the community, including Vice-Dean (Undergraduate) for the Faculty (2007-2011), Department Chair from (2011-2021), President of the CSChE (2008/09) and Chair of the CIC (2019/2020). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Chemical Institute of Canada and was recently awarded his Faculty’s Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award.