F. Handan Tezel

Professor Tezel started her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey and later transferred to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, USA where she received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering in 1979.

She then moved to Canada to continue her graduate work, receiving her M.Sc.E. and Ph.D. degrees from University of New Brunswick in 1981 and 1986, respectively. Professor Tezel joined the University of Ottawa as an Assistant Professor in 1988, following two years of Post-Doctoral studies at the University of New Brunswick. She then was promoted to Associate and Full-Professor in 1993 and 2003, respectively. She was the Vice Dean of Research for the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa from July 2010 until June 2015.

She spent a sabbatical leave at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 2004, as a Research Engineer working in their Adsorption Technology Center. Prof. Tezel also worked as a Part-time Professor in Ecole des Mines de Nantes, in France in 2006 and 2007. In 2014 she spent part of her sabbatical in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, as well as in Malaysia at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. Currently Dr. Tezel is on the executive committee of the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering as their Director of Conferences. She is also serving on the Energy task force for the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, as well as on the advisory board for the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems.