David West is a Corporate Fellow at SABIC focused on the development of new process technologies and differentiated products. He joined SABIC in 2012 after 31 years with The Dow Chemical Company. While at Dow, David contributed to the development of a variety of process technologies and new products which became the basis for several new manufacturing plants. He held various technical and leadership positions in Business and Corporate R&D labs. His interests include development of new materials, reaction engineering, fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, and non-linear dynamics.
West is an editor of the book series, Advances in Chemical Engineering, member of the Industrial Advisory Board for University College of London, Consulting Editors Board for AIChE Journal, past member of the Board of ISCRE, co-chair for the NASCRE3 and MACKIE2 conferences, and adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. David received the 2012 AIChE Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Practice Award, and a Chemical Engineering Science most cited paper award. David has a BS in Chemistry from Florida State University.