Biographical Sketch

Professor Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Dow Chemical Chair Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (1991-2015) and the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (2002-2009). At Texas A&M Energy Institue, he is the Course Director of the Master of Science in Energy, the Co-Director of the Southern Regional Manufacturing Centre, the director of the Data Sciences Core of the Texas A&M SUPERFUND research center, and the Texas A&M Principal Investigator of the RAPID Institute on process intensification, co-leading the Modeling & Simulation Focus Area.

He holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and he worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial. He has authored or co-authored over 400 major research publications in the areas of modelling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 12 books and 2 patents. He is a Fellow of IChemE and AIChE, and the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. He was a former Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE and he serves as a trustee of the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Organization. In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE, while in 2020 he received the Sargent Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers. He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa in 2014 from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.