Nicole Raymonde Demarquette is Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ecole de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal. She obtained her engineering degree from Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble France and her Master and PhD in Chemical Engineering from McGill University. She has worked extensively in the field of polymer blends and nano composites, being the authors of around 100 papers in journals. She holds an ETS institutional chair on the design of blends and nano composites based on thermoplastics.