Dr. Floudas is the Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, Associated Faculty in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, and Faculty in the Center for Quantitative Biology at Princeton University. He earned his B.S.E. in 1982 at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, completed his Ph.D. in December 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University and joined Princeton University as a Faculty Member in February 1986. In July 1991 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in July 1994 to Professor. He held Visiting Professor positions at Imperial College, England (Fall 1992); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Switzerland (Spring 1993); University of Vienna, Austria (Spring 1996); and the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI), Thessaloniki, Greece (Fall 1998).

     Professor Floudas is a world-renowned authority in mathematical modeling and optimization of complex systems at the macroscopic and microscopic level. His research interests lie at the interface of chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and operations research, with principal areas of focus including chemical process synthesis and design, process control and operations, discrete-continuous nonlinear optimization, local and global optimization, and computational chemistry and molecular biology. Professor Floudas is the author of two graduate textbooks, Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization (Oxford University Press, 1995), and Deterministic Global Optimization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000). He has co-edited eight monographs/books, has over 200 refereed publications, and has delivered over 320 invited lectures and seminars. He is the chief co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Optimization (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). He co-chaired the premier conference of Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design, FOCAPD-2004: Discovery Through Product and Process Design. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research that include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1988; the Engineering Council Teaching Award, Princeton University, 1995; the Bodossaki Foundation Award in Applied Sciences, 1997; the Best Paper Award in Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1998; the Aspen Tech Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999; the 2001 AIChE Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering; and the 2006 AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award .

     Dr. Floudas has served on the Editorial Boards of Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research (1998-2001); Journal of Global Optimization; Computers and Chemical Engineering (2001-present); Kluwer Book Series on Nonconvex Optimization and its Applications; Informatica; Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications; and Journal of Industrial Management and Optimization. He has been Director of the CAST Division of AIChE (1999-2001); a CACHE Corporation Trustee (2003-present);and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, INFORMS, the Mathematical Programming Society, the Biophysical Society, and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has co-organized the conferences on Recent Advances In Global Optimization (May 1991), State of the Art in Global Optimization: Computational Methods and Applications (May 1995), Optimization in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Biology: Local and Global Approaches (May 1999), Frontiers in Global Optimization (June 2003), and Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design, FOCAPD-2004 (July 2004). He has supervised 25 doctoral students, 11 postdoctoral associates, and over 30 senior thesis students as Head of Princeton's Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory.