Nicolas Abatzoglou

Biography

Nicolas Abatzoglou is a full Professor and Ex-Head of the Department of Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and Laval University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a Specialist in Process Engineering involving particulate systems. He is the Director of the GRTP-C&P (Group of Research on Technologies and Processes in the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry). Since May 2008, he is the holder of the Pfizer Industrial Research Chair in Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) in Pharmaceutical Engineering. He is one of the leaders in Canada’s NCE Network BioFuelNet on Biorefining. He is also a Co-Founder of the company Enerkem Technologies Inc., precursor of Enerkem Inc., a spin-off commercializing technologies in the field of energy from renewable resources. His scientific production includes more than 100 publications, reviews, conferences, keynotes, plenaries and invited lectures, patents and three book chapters.

Research Interest

His current research activities focus on Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering and its applications and Research on Technologies and Processes in the Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industry process Engineering involving particulate systems. It focus on the techno-economic feasibility of such an industrial project within the actual market globalization context as function of parameters such as, size, reactants and products market price, market outreach and socioeconomic and environmental incentives.