Gabriel Potvin Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

Director and Chair of the CEEA-ACEG Activities & Professional Development Committee

Vancouver, Canada Area

Tenured faculty member with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Performing pedagogical research in international engineering education, problem-based learning, and collaborative learning.

University Of Ottawa

Performed research in bioprocess engineering involving the high-level expression of recombinant proteins in yeast and microalgal systems, as well as the design and optimization of bioreactor-based production systems for these proteins.

Ottawa

As a Program Coordinator (May 2012-May 2015), managed a pool of well over 400 volunteers and 350 educators, assisted in the daily management and expansion of the programs, the coordination of volunteers and participants, the expansion of available resources and creation of new programs and events, including at the national level, the securing of funding.

Ottawa

Responsible for many logistical aspects of outreach trips to remote communities in northern Ontario, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. Served as acting Program Manager during that position's turnaround, organizing 4 science outreach trips to remote communities.

Directed research in mineralogical processing, oversaw the design, construction and testing of a prototype of 'High-Velocity Impact Shatterer' technology. Also responsible for raising of research capital, and took the lead in IP protection and partnership communications.

Phd, Bioprocess Engineering

Activities and Societies: Let's Talk Science - Scientific Outreach Program Science Travels - Scientific Outreach Program Thesis.

B.Sc. Honours, Biochemistry

Degree completed concurrently with B.A.Sc. Chemical Engineering.

B.A.Sc., Chemical Engineering

Degree completed concurrently with a B.Sc. Honours, Biochemistry