Marianthi Ierapetritou is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. She obtained her BS from National Technical University in Athens, Greece (magma cum laude), her PhD from Imperial College (London, UK) in 1995 and subsequently completed post-doctoral research at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) before joining Rutgers University in 1998. Prof. Ierapetritou’s expertise is in the area of process systems engineering. She has published more than 200 papers and has been invited to plenary and keynote lectures in national and international conferences (more than 80 invited presentations). Among her accomplishments are the 2016 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE); her election to as a fellow and in the Board of Directors for AIChE; the 2015 Award of Division of Particulate Preparations and Design (PPD) in Japan (SPTJ); the Teaching Excellence Award in 2014; the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2012; the Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence in 2004; and the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2000.
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"
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017- present Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Rutgers University,
Piscataway, NJ
2016- present Special Government Employee (SGE) Consultant to the FDA under the Advisory Committee for
Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology (ACPS-CP)Professor
2013- present 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
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
HONORS AND AWARDS
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