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Christodoulos Floudas

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Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas
Born31 August 1959
Died14 August 2016
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Scientific career
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Doctoral advisorIgnacio Grossmann

Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas (August 31, 1959 – August 14, 2016) was a Greek–American chemical engineer.

Floudas completed a diploma in chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1982,[1] and received his Ph.D. in 1986 at Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of Ignacio Grossmann.[2][3][4] Floudas began teaching at Princeton University upon earning his doctorate, and was later named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science.[5][6] From February 2015, he was the director of the Energy Institute at Texas A&M University, as well as the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence within the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering.[3]

His research areas were global optimization and process systems engineering.[5] In 2011, Floudas was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "[f]or contributions to theory, methods, and applications of global optimization in process systems engineering, computational chemistry, and molecular biology."[7] In 2013, he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[8] From 2014 to 2015, Floudas was listed as one of the highly cited researchers.[9] His h-index is 100 according to Google Scholar.[10]

Personal life

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Floudas was born in Ioannina, Greece on 31 August 1959.[11][12] He died on 14 August 2016 while on vacation in Chalkidiki, Greece at the age of 56.[5][13]

References

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  1. ^ "In Memoriam Christodoulos (Chris) A. Floudas1959-2016" (PDF). Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ "GROSSMANN RESEARCH GROUP - People". egon.cheme.cmu.edu.
  3. ^ a b "MSEL :: Curriculum Vitæ - Christodoulos A. Floudas". titan.engr.tamu.edu.
  4. ^ "Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas | Dean of the Faculty". dof.princeton.edu.
  5. ^ a b c Sullivan, John (17 August 2016). "Pioneer of global optimization Christodoulos Floudas dies". Princeton University. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ Pistikopoulos, Efstratios N. (August 2018). "In memoriam: Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas (1959–2016)". Journal of Global Optimization. 71 (4): 651–653. doi:10.1007/s10898-018-0670-x. S2CID 51870733.
  7. ^ "Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  8. ^ Misener, Ruth (30 September 2016). "In Memoriam: Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas" (PDF). Imperial College London. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  9. ^ "A pioneer in systems engineering". Ellines. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Christodoulos A. Floudas - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
  11. ^ Boukouvala, Fani; Gounaris, Chrysanthos E. (2020). "A preface to the special issue in memory of Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas". Optimization Letters. 14 (4): 797–800. doi:10.1007/s11590-019-01499-6.
  12. ^ "Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas Remembered". Texas A&M University. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  13. ^ Wojciechowski, Frank. "In Memoriam: Christodoulos Floudas". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 2 June 2020.