Dr. Simon Hesp has worked in partnership with Imperial Oil and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, amongst many others, for the betterment of the asphalt industry. He has been involved in the design, evaluation, and monitoring of more than 50 pavement test sections in Lamont, Petawawa, Cochrane, Hearst and the Ottawa and Greater Toronto areas. You can learn more about Dr. Hesp’s ground-breaking discoveries improve the longevity of Canada's roads in a recent Gazette article and the original article in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's Impact Stories series.