Christos Maravelias is the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. His research interests lie in the general area of process and energy systems engineering. Specifically, his group develops optimization methods for (1) production and supply chain planning, and (2) process and energy systems synthesis and analysis, with emphasis on renewable energy technologies. He has authored a research monograph on Chemical Production Scheduling. Princeton Group website available here.
Christos obtained his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1996. He then moved to the London School of Economics (London, UK), where he received an MSc in Operational Research. After completing his military service, he went to Carnegie Mellon University where he worked towards his PhD under the supervision of Professor Ignacio Grossmann. In the fall of 2004 he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is a recipient of the Inaugural Olaf A. Hougen Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, and the 2008 W. David Smith Jr. Award from the CAST division of ACIChE. Christos’ primary research interests are in the areas of a) production planning and scheduling, b) process synthesis, c) optimization under uncertainty, and d) the development of computational tools for the design of chemical and biological catalysts.