Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos
chemical engineer
Efstratios N. (Stratos) Pistikopoulos is a distinguished research professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, as well as the director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. From 1991-2015, he was a professor for chemical engineering at Imperial College, where he pioneered multi-parametric programming and invented the concept of explicit or multi-parametric model predictive control. He has authored and co/authored more than 350 peer reviewed journal articles, authored and/or edited 9 books and has been an invited speaker to many academic conferences and lectures, including the 21st Professor Roger W. H. Sargent lecture at Imperial College London (held on 4 December 2014) entitled "Multi-Parametric Programming & Control 25 years later: what is next?". Additionally, Pistikopoulos has been elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Education
Pistikopoulos received his diploma in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1984. Following which he pursued a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where he worked under the supervision of Ignacio Grossmann. He graduated in 1988; his thesis was entitled "Systematic procedures to improve process flexibility in retrofit design". After working with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam, he joined Imperial College London in 1991 as an assistant professor.
Professional career
Pistikopoulos served as the director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London from 2002 to 2009. Pistikopoulos joined the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2015 as the TEES Distinguished Research Professor, with a simultaneous appointment as the associate director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute.
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