Recognitions

2024 AIChE Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Excellence in Process Development award

2024 COE Faculty Award for Excellence in Service and Community Engagement

2022    AICHE Excellence in Process Development Research Award, sponsored by Pfizer, Inc.

2019   Gore Centennial Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware

2018   The Research & Development Council of New Jersey Chairman’s Award as part of the Center for Structured Organic Particular  Systems, NSF funded ERC center

2017  Distinguished Professor promotion effective July 1st of 2017 – Rutgers University

2017   Board of Directors of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

2016   Computing in Chemical Engineering from American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Computing And System Technology (CAST) division

2016   Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

2016   Keynote Speaker. International Conference on Sustainable Chemical Product and Process Engineering (SCPPE 2016),  May 31-   June 3, Nanjing, China

2016   Keynote Speaker. ESCAPE26, Slovenia, June 12-15, 2016.

2015   EPA's 2015 Scientific and Technological Achievement Highest Level Award.

2015   Award of Division of Particulate Preparations and Design (PPD) in PPD division of The Society of Powder Technology, Japan  (SPTJ).

2015   Plenary Speaker. PSE2015/ESCAPE25, Copenhagen, May 31-June 4, 2015.

2015   Invited Speaker. 50th AAPS Arden Conference: Continuous Manufacturing of Solid Oral Drug Products, Baltimore, March 16-18, 2015.

2015   Invited Speaker. QAFCO-Texas A&M at Qatar Conference 2015.

2014   Best Teacher award (selected by the students – Engineering Governing Council)

2014   Invited keynote lecturer at the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD)

2014   Invited Seminar Speaker. BMS, Syracuse, March 2014.

2013   PSE Model-Based Innovation (MBI) Prize for 2013

2013   Invited Visiting Faculty, ETH Zurich, 2013.

2012   Outstanding Faculty Award, School of Engineering, Rutgers University

2012   Invited International Seminar on Planning and Scheduling, Rio de Janeiro, Oct 2012.

2011   Invited speaker on 5th International Graz Congress on Pharmaceutical Engineering, Graz, Austria, September 2011

2009   Keynote lecture, 20th International Symposium of Process Systems Engineering (PSE), Brazil, August 2009. 

2008   Invited Seminar Speaker Pan American Advanced Studies Institute Program on Process Systems Engineering (PASI), Mar De Plata, Argentina, August 2008.

2006   Keynote lecture ADCHEM (Advanced Control of Chemical Processes) Gamado, Brazil, 2006.

2005   Invited Seminar Speaker Pan American Advanced Studies Institute Program on Process Systems Engineering (PASI), Iguass Falls, Brazil, August 2005.

2004   Board of Trustees Research Award for Scholarly Excellence, Rutgers University

2002   Teaching Excellence Award from Chemical Engineering Department, Rutgers University

2001   Plenary Speaker, ENPROMER 2001, 3rd Mercosur Congress on Process Systems Engineering, Argentina, September 2001.

2001   Invited Speaker University of Iceland, May 2001.

2000   NSF CAREER Award, CTS 99-83406 

1992   Postgraduate Grant, Commission of European Community (ERB CHBI CT 93 0484)

1991   Research/Teaching Fellowship, Imperial College

1986   Undergraduate Fellowship, National Scholarship Foundation of Greece Award

1990   Tiftixis Foundation Award, Athens Greece

1991   Economou Award for Academic Excellence, Athens, Greece

1991   Best Student of Chemical Engineering Department Award, National Technical University of Athens