Membership Category

  • Regular

Institution

  • Université de Sherbrooke

Discipline(s)

  • Chemical Engineering
  • Material Engineering and Metallurgic Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Expertises

  • Plastic Recycling
  • Conversion of Agricultural and Agri-Food Waste into Bioplastics and Biocomposites

Biography

Professor Saïd Elkoun holds a PhD in Materials Science and specializes in several areas: crystallization, characterization, and processing of biopolymers and biocomposites; study of relationships between manufacturing parameters, microstructure, and the properties of materials in use; mechanical recycling of plastics; valorization of agricultural and agri-food residual materials through green extraction and processing  techniques and their scale-up.

Affiliated research axes

Change and Transition Management

Planning Optimization

Resource and Product Maximization

Policy levers

The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec