Rajinder Pal is a Professor in the Department of Chemical
Engineering at the University of Waterloo, as well as a fellow of the Chemical
Institute of Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada
in 1987. His research areas of interest lie in the rheology of dispersions, the
flow of dispersions in pipelines and other process equipment, understanding the
stability and demulsification of oil and water emulsions, studying column
flotation, and measuring the flow of multi-phase fluids. He received the
Syncrude Canada Innovation Award in 1998 from the Canadian Society for Chemical
Engineering. He also received the Teaching Excellence Award from the UWaterloo
Faculty of Engineering twice (2001 and 2017), as well as the Outstanding
Performance Award from UWaterloo in 2009. In 2020, he received the prestigious
Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Waterloo.
