Professor Mark Kortschot

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Professor Mark Kortschot
B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cambridge), P.Eng., FCAE

Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto | 200 College St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5
mark.kortschot@utoronto.ca

Mark Kortschot is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto and the former Chair of the Division of Engineering Science. He obtained his B.A.Sc. (1984) and M.A.Sc.(1985) degrees in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, specializing in mechanics and materials science. He then went to Cambridge University as a Commonwealth Scholar and obtained his Ph.D. in 1989. He joined the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1988.

Professor Kortschot is interested in both the design of materials and the design with materials. His academic research has centered on the relationship between microstructure and properties in fibrous materials, and most recently, he has focused on the mechanical properties of 3D printed composites.

Professor Kortschot is also an active designer, inventor, and entrepreneur with expertise in materials selection, manufacturing, and intellectual property, and is a co-author of “Designing Engineers”, published by Wiley. He is a co-founder and President of Légère Reeds Ltd., which makes premium synthetic saxophone and clarinet reeds that are used extensively on Broadway and in the world’s leading orchestras. He is also the inventor of the Sole Skate™, a compact skateboard licensed to Razor USA and chosen as one of TIME’s Top 10 toys of 2010.