# Basil Favis

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'''Basil D. Favis''' is a full professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, [Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal](/source/Ecole_Polytechnique_de_Montreal) and the director of Center for Research on High Performance Polymer and Composite Systems (CREPEC).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.polymtl.ca/crepec/en/bottin/details.php?fiche=17 |title=Center for Research on High Performance Polymer and Composite Systems - Basil D. FAVIS page |access-date=2011-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706193803/http://www.polymtl.ca/crepec/en/bottin/details.php?fiche=17 |archive-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Favis is the author or co-author of more than 170 scientific papers and is one of the most highly cited authors in the polymer/biopolymer blends field.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} In 1995 Favis was the recipient of the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} He is the past chairman of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the [Chemical Institute of Canada](/source/Chemical_Institute_of_Canada), a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the [Society of Plastics Engineers](/source/Society_of_Plastics_Engineers), a member of the Quebec Order of Engineers and in 1997-1998 was the Invited Professor at the [University of Strasbourg](/source/University_of_Strasbourg) in France.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}}

Favis received his Ph.D. in Polymer Physical Chemistry from [McGill University](/source/McGill_University) in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. After a period in industry as a group leader with [Johnson and Johnson Inc.](/source/Johnson_and_Johnson) he worked as program manager for polymer blends with the Industrial Materials Institute of the [National Research Council of Canada](/source/National_Research_Council_of_Canada).{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} Since 1990 he has been a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.

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