2025 Covestro Lecture: Alexander Mitsos

March 11, 2025

3:45 p.m. ET

Covestro Lecture Series in Process Systems Engineering

Featuring:

Dr. Alexander Mitsos

Professor and Laboratory Director, Process Systems Engineering

Aachener Verfahrenstechnik (RWTH Aachen University)

Title: Process systems engineering meets machine learning

Alexander Mitsos is a Full Professor (W3) in RWTH Aachen University, and the Director of the Laboratory for Process Systems Engineering (AVT.SVT), comprising 40 research and administrative staff. He also has a joint appointment at Forschungszentrum Juelich where he is a Director of ICE-1 Energy Systems Engineering. Mitsos received his Dipl.-Ing. from University of Karlsruhe in 1999 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2006, both in Chemical Engineering. Prior appointments include military service, freelance engineering, involvement in a start-up company, a junior research group leader position in the Aachen Institute of Computational Engineering Science, and the Rockwell International Assistant Professorship at MIT. Mitsos' research focuses on optimization of energy and chemical systems and development of enabling numerical algorithms. He is (associate) editor in multiple journals, including AAAS Science Advances, Computers & Chemical Engineering, Journal of Global Optimization, and Journal of Optimization Theory & Applications.

Covestro Lecture Series

The Covestro Lecture Series in Process Systems Engineering is devoted to presenting state-of-the-art research work in process system engineering. It also recognizes the contributions of the Covestro Corporation in establishing and endowing the Covestro Chair for Chemical Engineering. Lectures are given by internationally recognized speakers who have made significant impact in the field of process systems.

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