Dr. Cor Peters, Chemical Engineering Department Chairman and Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi and was recently appointed as the director of the Gas Research Centre. His MSc and PhD comes from TU-Delft. Extended research stays were spent elsewhere in the world USA, Japan, New Zealand, UK, Spain and Argentina. He is an AIChE and IUPAC Fellow with more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals; 26 PhD students and more than 60 M.Sc. students supervised. Professor Peters has on-going research collaborations with TU-Delft, TU-Eindhoven, University of Maryland, College Park and Colorado School of Mines. He is a world-expert in ionic liquids and other complex fluids. Dr. Peters has a long tradition in gas hydrate research, leading to many publications, among them one in Science.