Professor Mohini Sain
University of Toronto, Canada

Professor Mohini Sain serves as the Founding  Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing since year 2002 and he is the founding Endowed Ford Motor Canada Chair Professor in Sustainable Materials in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering  at the University of Toronto, a world’s Top 20 universities and world’s No.1 University in Sustainability.

Acting as a founding Director of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing, first in kind research commercialization driven by transdisciplinary education, training and research,  centre focuses on sustainable and low carbon materials. Formerly Dean of Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, he also serves in a capacity as a Director of a globally recognized research hub, Prof. Sain provided leadership and vision with transdisciplinary approach.

As a highly accomplished researcher-entrepreneur with a H-Index 83 and a Hi-Cited research scholar with an impressive record of research publications in impactful journals including Nature and Science family of journals, he also founded multiple-successful spin-off companies with his collaborative approach. His research accomplishment has been recognized by many citation agencies including top-tier ranking in Mendeley list from SRI.

Under his leadership, University of Toronto and Forest Product Society, USA has championed and commercialized world first wood-plastics industry in 1995. This global WPC industry today generates over $8 Billion dollar revenue globally.

Prof. Sain, a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry UK, Royal Society of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineers. He was awarded honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa. Prof. Sain is known globally for his pioneering work on the Biocar Initiative: in 2009, an issue of Toronto Life magazine featured his idea as second best among 25 World Changing Ideas from the Smartest Torontonians.

After graduating from IIT, Kharagpore, he briefly served Tata Cables and Nicco Furmanite as an R&D Manager before moving to Europe for his doctoral research as a UNESCO fellow. Since 1989, he served several industries in consulting positions including Barum, Europe and Aspen Research Division of Anderson Corp, St Paul, USA.

Prof. Sain holds numerous prestigious international and national awards: A few recent ones are the North American Entrepreneurship Award, the Plastic Innovation Award and the KALEV PUGI Award for innovation and contribution to industry.

He is world-renowned for his expertise in transforming research ideas into commercialization. Among his co-founded  companies that are spin-offs from his research findings Greencore Composites Inc. (acquired by Domtar Inc), Bevtronic International, Natures Affinity Inc. and GreenNano Technologies Inc made a distinct impact in societal value addition in sustainable and renewable products and manufacturing. To date he has made over 100 technology transfers to industries and has helped create new companies for making products including circular materials economy, Biomass and CO2 to Hydrogen, waste plastics and solid management and value-creation, Battery and Fuel Cell energy materials, CO2 capture and utilization, Lightweight functional products, biomedical devices.