Patience, Gregory

Prof. Gregory Patience, PhD, PEng, MCIC, is an imaginative and prolific innovator. During his 14-year career in industry and 16 years in academia, he has developed new processes that are game-changers for industry and the environment. Gregory worked with DuPont from 1990 to 2004. He managed a fibers textile laboratory in Switzerland; supported the start up of a $150-million industrial complex in Spain and developed a retrofit for this reactor that increased production by a factor of two. He travelled across Europe helping manufacturers improve their processes. In addition, he consulted on fault analysis of fabrics for companies such as Adidas, Nike, and Levi’s. Now a chemical engineering professor with Polytechnique Montréal, Gregory is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in High Temperature, High Pressure Heterogeneous Catalysis, securing $15.5 million in grants and contracts. In the last six years alone, he has supervised over 100 students, published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and written two books – Elsevier promoted his book on communication as one of the top resource guide books every graduate student should own.