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Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy: Dr. Gavin Towler

Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy

Accelerating Sustainability

The Texas A&M Energy Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series in Energy will feature Dr. Gavin Towler, a Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientist for Sustainable Technologies at Honeywell, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CST (UTC -6:00) in the Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building (GERB) Third Floor Conference Room and through a Zoom Meeting. The topic will be “Accelerating Sustainability.”

Abstract

Responding to the twin global challenges of sustainable development and climate change requires enormous changes in the way we deliver and use energy in transportation, industry, homes, and buildings. Honeywell has been developing and deploying technologies to address these challenges for over 20 years and has set ambitious goals to achieve carbon neutrality in our facilities and operations by 2035, while simultaneously helping our customers avoid over 2 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The presentation will survey some of the technologies that have the highest impact on global greenhouse gas emissions reduction and the challenges we face as society moves down the path toward a more sustainable future economy.

Biography

Gavin Towler is the Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientist, Sustainable  Technologies for Honeywell, with broad technical accountability across Honeywell for  driving thought leadership in Sustainable Technologies. 

Gavin has 32 years of experience of process and product design in the chemicals and  fuels industries and has 77 US patents. Prior to his current role he served as Vice  President and Chief Technology Officer of Honeywell UOP and of Honeywell  Performance Materials and Technologies. He is co-author of “Chemical Engineering  Design”, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern  University and the National University of Singapore, where he helps teach the senior design classes.  

Gavin has a B.A. and M.Eng. in chemical engineering from Cambridge University and a  Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of  Chemical Engineers, a Fellow of the AIChE and a member of the United States National  Academy of Engineering.