Hugo I. de Lasa is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, at the University of Western Ontario. Prof. de Lasa graduated in 1971 with a Doctoral degree from the Université de Nancy in France. Hugo de Lasa received, in 2004, an Honoris Causa Doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. Prof. de Lasa is the author of 310-peer reviewed articles, 6 books, and 11 U.S. and Canadian patents. He has been actively involved in the training of graduate students with the successful supervision of 42 PhD and 30 MESc. Prof. de Lasa’s activities have been of key importance for furthering the understanding of the science and the technology of chemical reactors. His innovative work deals with the application of chemical reactor engineering to environmentally friendly processes and products. Examples of Hugo de Lasa's inventions are the CREC-Riser Simulator, the Pseudoadiabatic Catalytic Reactor, the CREC-Optiprobes and the Photo-CREC reactors. In 2003, de Lasa founded Recat Technologies Inc (http://www.recattechnologies.com/) with the goal of commercializing CREC innovations. In 1998, Hugo de Lasa received the Research Excellence Prize from the Faculty of Engineering Science of the University of Western Ontario. In 2000, he was designated Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. That same year, he was awarded the Medal of Research and Development from the Professional Engineers of Ontario. In 2001, Hugo de Lasa received the Award in Industrial Practice and in 2004, the R.S.Jane Lecture Award, both from the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. In 2005, Hugo de Lasa was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2010, The American Chemical Society published a special Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research Festschrift Issue in Hugo de Lasa’s honour.
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