Ignacio E. Grossmann
Center
for Advanced Process Decision-making
Department
of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie
Mellon University
Pittsburgh,
15217, USA
grossmann@cmu.edu
Prof.
Ignacio E. Grossmann is the Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University
Professor of Chemical Engineering, and former Department Head at
Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.S. degree in
Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City,
in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Imperial
College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After working as an R&D
engineer at the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo in 1978, he joined
Carnegie Mellon in 1979. He was Director of the Synthesis Laboratory
from the Engineering Design Research Center in 1988-93. He is
director of the "Center for Advanced Process Decision-making"
which comprises a total of 20 petroleum, chemical and engineering
companies. Ignacio Grossmann is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering , Mexican Academy of Engineering, and associate editor of
AIChE Journal and member of editorial board of Computers and Chemical
Engineering, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization and
Engineering, Latin American Applied Research, and Process Systems
Engineering Series. He is a member of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers, Institute for Operations Research and Management
Science, Mathematical Optimization Society, and American Chemical
Society.
Major
awards include the 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the
1994 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of the CAST Division of
AIChE, the 1997 William H. Walker Award of AIChE, and in 2002,
Honorary Doctor in Technology from Åbo Akademi in Finland, Fellow of
INFORMS and AICHE, Top 15 Most Cited Author in Computer Science by
ISI. 2003 INFORMS Computing Prize Award, 2007 Kun Li Award for
Excellence in Education, in 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of
Maribor, Slovenia, in 2008 named as one of the “One Hundred
Engineers of the Modern Era” by AICHE, in 2009 received the Warren
K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education by AIChE, in 2011
the Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering Award from AIChE.