Background
Garside was born 9 October 1941, and studied chemical engineering at University College, London (University College London), gaining Bachelor of Science in 1963 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1966.
Garside was born 9 October 1941, and studied chemical engineering at University College, London (University College London), gaining Bachelor of Science in 1963 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1966.
University College London.
He then worked for Imperial Chemical Industries in Teesside before becoming a lecturer, then later a reader in chemical engineering at University College London. During this time he was Fulbright Senior Scholar at Iowa State University in 1976. In 1982 he was appointed professor and head of the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. In 2000 Garside became the Vice-Chancellor of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and oversaw its merger with the University of Manchester in 2004. The same year he was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to education".
The John Garside building at the University, which houses the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, was named in his honour.
Garside has served as president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Executive Vice-President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). His research interest is crystallization.
In addition to books and publications on this topic he also chaired the EFCE Working Party on Crystallization. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1988.