Basil D. Favis is a full professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and the director of Center for Research on High Performance Polymer and Composite Systems (CREPEC).
[citation needed] In 1995 Favis was the recipient of the Syncrude Canada Innovation Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.
[citation needed] Favis received his Ph.D. in Polymer Physical Chemistry from McGill University in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
After a period in industry as a group leader with Johnson and Johnson Inc. he worked as program manager for polymer blends with the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada.
[citation needed] Since 1990 he has been a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.