A preface to the special issue in memory of Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas
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A preface to the SI in Memory of Prof. C.A. Floudas Fani Boukouvala1 · Chrysanthos E. Gounaris2 Received: 14 October 2019 / Accepted: 30 October 2019 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas (8/31/1959–8/14/2016). Photo Credit: Texas A&M University Engineering. This special issue marks three years after the unexpected and devastating passing of Professor Christodoulos (Chris) A. Floudas, an extraordinary scholar who has since been sorely missed by the Process Systems Engineering community as well as the broader world of Mathematical Optimization. Chris Floudas was the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, where he served as faculty for three decades. Later in his life, Chris joined Texas A&M University as the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence. Chris Floudas’s scholarly contributions are captured in an excess of 10 textbooks, 30 book chapters and 400 journal papers. Collectively, these works discuss many theoret-
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Fani Boukouvala [email protected] Chrysanthos E. Gounaris [email protected]
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School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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F. Boukouvala, C. E. Gounaris
ical and methodological advances in the fields of Global Optimization, Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization, Grey-box Optimization, and Optimization under Uncertainty as well as apply these fields in areas as diverse as Process and Product Design, Process Synthesis, Process Operations, Multi-scale Energy Systems, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, among others. Chris Floudas received many accolades for his research, teaching prowess, academic leadership, and entrepreneurial virtue. Notable moments of recognition were his induction to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to theory, methods, and applications of global optimization in process systems engineering, computational chemistry, and molecular biology; his induction to the National Academy of Inventors in 2015; his election as a Corresponding Member of the First Section of the Academy of Athens in 2015; his receipt of awards including the Constantin Caratheodory Prize, the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the AIChE Professional Progress Award, the National Award and Gold Medal of the Hellenic Operational Research Society, the Bodossaki Foundation Award in Applied Sciences, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Graduate Mentoring Award of Princeton University; his naming as Fellow of organizations such as AIChE, TIAS, and SIAM; and many other honors that are too many to list here. At the same time, Chris possessed a unique gift in the way he touched the lives of the many people with whom he interacted, whether as an advisor, mentor, collaborator, colleague, and/or personal friend
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