Professor Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and a TEES Eminent 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). 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 500 major research publications in the areas of modeling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 15 books, and 3 patents. He is a co-founder of Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Ltd, a Fellow of AIChE and IChemE, a past Chair of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE, and the current Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering; in 2012, the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE; in 2020, he was awarded the Sargent Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2014, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.
