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Griechische Wissenschaftler
Information from Prof. Christodoulos Floudas Homepage: Brief Biosketch of Professor C. A. Floudas Dr. Floudas is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, and Associated Faculty in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He earned his B.S.E. in 1982 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, completed his Ph.D. in December 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University and joined Princeton University as a Faculty Member in February 1986. In July 1991 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in July 1994 to Professor. He held Visiting Professor positions at Imperial College, England (Fall 1992); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Switzerland (Spring 1993); University of Vienna, Austria (Spring 1996); and the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI), Thessaloniki, Greece (Fall 1998). Professor Floudas is a world-renowned authority in mathematical modeling and optimization of complex systems at the macroscopic and microscopic level. His research interests lie at the interface of chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and operations research, with principal areas of focus including chemical process synthesis and design, process control and operations, discrete-continuous nonlinear optimization, local and global optimization, and computational chemistry and molecular biology. Professor Floudas is the author of two graduate textbooks, Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Deterministic Global Optimization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has co-edited six monographs/books, has over 160 refereed publications, and has delivered over 240 invited lectures and seminars. He is the chief co-editor of the recently published Encyclopedia of Optimization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research that include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988; the Engineering Council Teaching Award, Princeton University, 1995; the Bodossaki Foundation Award in Applied Sciences, 1997; the Best Paper Award in Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1998; the Aspen Tech Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999; and the 2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Floudas has served on the Editorial Boards of Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research (1998-2001); Journal of Global Optimization; Computers and Chemical Engineering (2001-present); Kluwer Book Series on Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications; Informatica; and Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications. He has been Director of the CAST Division of AIChE (1999-2001); and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, INFORMS, the Mathematical Programming Society, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has co-organized at Princeton University the conferences on Recent Advances In Global Optimization (May 1991), State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications (May 1995), and Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology: Local and Global Approaches (May 1999}. He has supervised eighteen doctoral students and 7 postdoctoral associates as Head of Princeton's Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory. PositionProfessor of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University. EducationPh.D. in Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1986. Thesis: ``Synthesis and Analysis of Flexible Energy Recovery Systems''. Advisor: I.E. Grossmann. Professional ExperienceProfessor of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1994-present. Research ActivitiesProfessor Floudas' research interests are in the area of Chemical Process Systems Engineering and lie at the interface of chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and operations research, with principal areas of focus including process synthesis and design, process control and operations, discrete-continuous nonlinear optimization, local and global optimization, and computational chemistry and molecular biology. Honors and Professional ActivitiesAIChE Professional Progress Award, 2001. Professional Activities : Conference OrganizationApril 1988 : Operations Research and the Institute of Management Science Meeting, Washington DC, "Nonlinear Programming", session Chairman. University ActivitiesWorkshop on "Understanding Complexity in Natural, Social and Economic Systems", co-leader with R. Sircar, Fall 2003.
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