Professor Pistikopoulos is the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and holds the Dow Chemical Chair Professorship in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, UK (1991-2015) and a former Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University and worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial. He has authored or co-authored over 650 major research publications in the areas of modelling, data analysis, control and optimization of energy, process and systems engineering & automation applications, 17 books, 5 patents, and various software tools. A co-founder of Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Ltd (now part of Siemens), he is a Fellow of AIChE and IChemE and the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering. Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious Mac Robert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007, the recipient of the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of CAST/AIChE in 2013, the IChemE’s Sargent Medal in 2020, and the AIChE’s Sustainable Engineering Forum Award in 2021. At Texas A&M, he received The Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research in 2021 and was named a University Distinguished Professor in 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, and a Member of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology.