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Principal Investigator

Marianthi Ierapetritou is the Bob and Jane Gore Centennial Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Delaware. Prior to that, she was a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. During the last year at Rutgers University, she led the efforts of the university advancing the careers in STEM for women at Rutgers as an Associate Vice President of the University. Dr. Ierapetritou’s research focuses on the following areas: 1) process operations; (2) design and synthesis of flexible production systems focusing on pharmaceutical manufacturing; 3) energy and sustainability process modeling and operations; and 4) modeling of biopharmaceutical production. Her research is supported by several federal (FDA, NIH, NSF, ONR, NASA) and industrial (BMS, J&J, GSK, PSE, Bosch, Eli Lilly) grants. 

 Among her accomplishments are: the appointment as the Gore Centennial Professor in 2019, the promotion to distinguished professor at Rutgers University in 2017, the 2016 Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) division Award in Computing in Chemical Engineering, the highest distinction in the Systems area of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Award of Division of Particulate Preparations and Design (PPD) of The Society of Powder Technology, Japan; the Outstanding Faculty Award at Rutgers; the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Award for Scholarly Excellence; and the prestigious NSF CAREER award. She has also been appointed as a Consultant to the FDA under the Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology, elected as a fellow of AICHE and as a Director in the board of AIChE. She has more than 250 publications and has been an invited speaker to numerous national and international conferences. Dr. Ierapetritou obtained her BS from The National Technical University in Athens, Greece, her Ph.D. from Imperial College (London, UK) in 1995 and subsequently completed her post-doctoral research at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ).

Education

1991-1995

Ph. D., Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College, London, UK.

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Efstratios Pistikopoulos

Thesis Topic: "Optimization Approaches for Process Engineering Problems under Uncertainty"

1986-1991

Diploma (Summa cum Laude), Chemical Engineering Department, NTUA, Greece

Faculty Advisor: Prof. Z. Maroulis

Thesis Topic: "Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Network"

2019-present    Gore Centennial Professor

                         Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2018- 2019      Associate Vice President

                        Office of Women in STEM Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

2017- 2019      Distinguished Professor

                        Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

2016- 2019      Special Government Employee (SGE) Consultant to the FDA under the Advisory Committee for

                        Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology (ACPS-CP)Professor

                       

2013- 2018      Chair

                        Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

2009- 2017      Professor

                        Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

 

2004-2009       Associate Professor

                        Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

 

2005-2006       Visiting Associate Professor

                        Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

                       

 

1998-2004       Assistant Professor

                        Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

                        Piscataway, NJ

 

1996-1998       Post Doctoral Research Associate

                        Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

                        Faculty Advisor: Prof. Christodoulos A. Floudas

 

1995-1996       Post Doctoral Research Associate

                        Center for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK

                        Faculty Advisor: Prof. Efstratios Pistikopoulos

Professional Experience

Honors and Awards

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 Systems

           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 Del

           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), Iguassu

           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

Teaching Activities

2013-2016       Professional Skills Development Course: Sophomore level Course

2013-2014       Design of Separations Processes: Junior level Course

2012                Process Systems Engineering: Modeling and Optimization of Process Design and Operations  - Graduate level Course

2010-2011       Chemical Analysis I – Sophomore level course

2004-2009       Freshmen Orientation Lectures

2004-2012       Process Dynamics and Control: Senior level course

2004                Modeling and Optimization of Process Design and Operations: Graduate level Elective Course

2005-2007       Analytical Methods in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Graduate level Core Course

2001-2002       Analytical Methods in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Graduate level Core Course

2000-2002       Design of Separation Processes: Senior Level Course:

1999-2000       Advanced Transport Phenomena: Graduate level Core Course

1999                Process Systems Engineering: Graduate level Course

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