Prodromos Daoutidis is a College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor, holder of the Amundson Chair, and Executive Officer in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received a Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, M.S.E. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has been on the faculty at Minnesota since 1992, having served as Director of Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering and Chair of the Physical Sciences Policy and Review Council. He has also been a Humphrey Institute Policy Fellow. He is the recipient of several awards, including the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the PSE Model Based Innovation Prize, the Best Paper Prize from the Journal of Process Control, an NSF Career Award, and the AIChE Ted Peterson Award. He has served as CAST Programming Chair, Program Coordinator in CAST Areas 10b and 10d, CPC VIII co-chair, and is currently Secretary of FIPSE. He is the Associate Editor for Process Systems Engineering in the AIChE Journal and an Associate Editor in the Journal of Process Control. He has co-authored 5 books and more than 300 refereed papers and has supervised to completion 38 PhD students and post-docs. His current research is on control and optimization of complex and networked systems, and the design and operation of distributed renewable systems for power generation and production of fuels and chemicals.
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