Krishnaswamy Nandakumar has been a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta  for 25 years. Currently he is the GASCO Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Nandakumar received his BTech from Madras University in 1973, MSc from University of Saskatchewan in 1975 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1979. He has received the Alexander von Humnboldt research fellowship from the German government in 1989-90 and the Albright & Wilson Americas Award from the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering in 1991 for distinguished contributions to chemical engineering before reaching the age of 40. Nandakumar was elected as Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada in 1991 and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2006. He has received, from the University of Alberta, the McCalla Professorship (1992), the Killam Annual Professorship (2001) for excellence in research and the Rutherford Award (2001) for excellence in teaching. He has received the Excellence in Education Award (2002) and the Frank Spragins Technical Award (2008) from the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta. He has received the Sartorius India’s Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award in 2003 and the CK Murthy memorial lecture award in 2006 from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has been appointed as Editor of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering effective January 2005.