Omid Ebrahimpour is a research Scientist at “DuPont Process Development Group”, located in Kingston, Canada. Omid obtained his bachelor and master in chemical engineering from Sharif University (Tehran, Iran), in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He graduated as doctorate in chemical engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2013 under supervisory of Prof. Chaouki and Prof. Dubois.
In his PhD project, he innovated a new process to fabricate porous SiC ceramics at low sintering temperature with improved mechanical and physical properties using in-situ polymerization and sol-gel techniques. Prior to joining DuPont in 2015, he worked as an Industrial postdoctoral at Enerkem working on a pilot research facility to convert municipal solid waste Martials to biofuel.
His current focus at DuPont is to add business value into R&D programs by validating new technologies at intermediate scale and creating customer value through science based solutions, developed at “Kingston Process Development Group” at Dupont Canada.