Dr. Gavin Towler is the Corporate Chief Scientist, Sustainability Technologies of Honeywell Performance Materials Technologies. Honeywell is a global leader in providing customers with high-performance specialty materials, process technologies and materials for petroleum refining, petrochemical production, and natural gas processing as well as products, services and solutions for industrial process automation.

Prior to this position Gavin held the title of Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of UOP LLC. Gavin worked at UOP for 18 years in a variety of Technology and Engineering roles. Gavin has 25 years of broad experience in the oil, gas and chemicals industry and has 68 US patents. He is co-author of “Chemical Engineering Design”, a textbook on process design, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and National University of Singapore.