The European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE) series presents the latest innovations and achievements of leading professionals from the industrial and academic communities. The ESCAPE series serves as a forum for engineers, scientists, researchers, managers and students to present and discuss progress being made in the area of computer aided process engineering (CAPE). European industries large and small are bringing innovations into our lives, whether in the form of new technologies to address environmental problems, new products to make our homes more comfortable and energy efficient or new therapies to improve the health and well being of European citizens. Moreover, the European Industry needs to undertake research and technological initiatives in response to humanity's "Grand Challenges," described in the declaration of Lund, namely, Global Warming, Tightening Supplies of Energy, Water and Food, Ageing Societies, Public Health, Pandemics and Security. Thus, the Technical Theme of ESCAPE 21 will be "Process Systems Approaches for Addressing Grand Challenges in Energy, Environment, Health, Bioprocessing & Nanotechnologies."
Michael C. Georgiadis is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. He holds a PhD from Imperial College. His research areas encompass Energy Systems Engineering; Energy Planning and Scheduling; Energy Saving Techniques for the Process Industries; Supply Chain Network Design and Optimisation; Techniques for Project Scheduling; Advanced Process Control of Energy and Production Systems; Modelling , simulation and Dynamic Optimization of oil and gas processes; Computer-Aided Process Design and Synthesis; Design and scheduling of Batch and semi-continuous Processes, Production Planning. Emphasis on food, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical processes; Optimisation and Control of Drug delivery systems; and Modelling of Biological Systems.
He is now serving as the co-director of the National Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry, a National Representative of Directorate I (Climate Change & Environment), Affiliate of IEA Bioenergy and EERA Bioenergy, and the Greek Delegate of the Computer Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) group of EFCE. Dr. Kokossis received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece and Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University (USA). His expertise includes process systems design, modelling, process integration, and optimization. He published academic papers extensively and has consulted with the process industry including UOP, Bayer, Mitsubishi, Eastman, MW Kellogg, BP Oil, Uniliver and more recently, with biorefineries and small companies on renewables.
