Welcome to visiting Professor John M. Shaw

The Department would like to welcome Prof. John M. Shaw from the University of Alberta as a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor. He will be with us for part of his sabbatical.

Brief Biographical Sketch

John M. Shaw obtained his B.A.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Metallurgy and Material Science at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He started his academic career at the University of Toronto in 1985. He joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, in 2001, where he held the NSERC industrial research chair in petroleum thermodynamics (2001-2017) and is now a professor.

During his career he has developed expertise in the phase behaviour, physiochemical and transport properties of hydrocarbons from coal liquids, heavy oils and condensate rich reservoir fluids to pure compounds. In his current role, he develops enabling technologies, and methodologies for measuring and calculating thermophysical properties of hydrocarbons, and for selecting industrial processes related to hydrocarbon production, transport and refining sectors with a global mandate.

He is an associate editor of Energy and Fuels, chairs the conference committee for PPEPPD 2019, is a member of the international advisory board for the European Community Project Science for Clean Energy (S4CE, led by Alberto Striolo),  the advisory board for Fluid Phase Equilibria, and is a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Project on Recommended Reference Materials for Phase Equilibria Studies.  He sat until recently on an advisory committee for the National High Magnetic Flux Laboratory Tallahassee (FTICR-MS facility, USA), and the Network Coordination Council for the Canadian Oilsands Network of Research and Development (CONRAD). He is called upon regularly for advice by government laboratories, universities, and corporations. During his current sabbatical he will among other activities advise the Peruvian government on the quality of the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering undergraduate programs at Peruvian universities. He is also interested in e-learning and likes to ride bicycles and travel!