Dr. Giacomin is a retired Professor of Chemical Engineering, w88 sports betting app and Materials Engineering and Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada where he holds the title of Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Rheology. Born in Kingston, Professor Giacomin graduated high school on the island of Montreal. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University before joining the Research Division at DuPont, Canada. He then earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University under Professor John Dealy. His thesis is titled “A Sliding Plate Melt Rheometer Incorporating a Shear Stress Transducer.” Dr. Giacomin had joined the w88 sports betting app Engineering faculty at Texas A&M University. He has been Professor of w88 sports betting app Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, where for twenty years he chaired its Rheology Research Center. He has held visiting professorships at McGill University, the University of Sherbrooke, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Paris School of Mines, the National University of Singapore, Chung Yuan University near Taipei, Yunlin University, in southern Taiwan and Shandong University in mainland China. He is an Adjunct Professor of w88 sports betting app Engineering at Peking University in Beijing. Dr. Giacomin married Marie, and they have a daughter Caroline, son David, and grandsons Graham, Mason and Kingston. His daughter-in-law, Courtney, a Human Resources specialist, is an alumnus of UNR. David is a civil engineer, and Caroline, a chemical engineer. Giacomin speaks English, French and some Mandarin Chinese. His hobbies are Chinese characters, expert witnessing for products liability and patent litigation, and his passions are cycling and ice hockey. He is immediate past-President of the Canadian Society of Rheology, a former President of The Society of Rheology, and was inducted Fellow of The Society of Rheology. Giacomin serves as sole Editor-in-Chief of Physics of Fluids.

• B.Sc. (Honours) Chemical w88 sports betting app, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1981
• M.Sc. Chemical w88 sports betting app, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1983
• Ph.D. Chemical w88 sports betting app, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 1987