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.
The 2026 awards are now open for submission.
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The 2025 winner of the R. S. Jane Memorial Award is:
Michael KC Tam, FCIC
University of Waterloo
Michael Tam obtained his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Monash University, Australia in 1982 and 1991 respectively. He taught at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for 15 years, and joined the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo in 2007 as a tenured full professor. He has made seminal contributions in the field of stimuli-responsive polymers, surfactant-polymer interactions, functional colloids, and sustainable nanomaterials, which have a profound impact on the application of these systems in many industrial sectors. His research has resulted in the development of novel sustainable nanomaterials from the forest and agri-biomass that will benefit the economy of Canada. He has published more than 400 journal articles in various fields of polymer science and engineering. His total citation exceeds 31,800 and his H-index is 92. He is also a deputy editor of ACS Sustainable Resource Management.