Ignacio E. Grossmann is the Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University Professor of Chemical Engineering, and former Department Head at Carnegie Mellon University . He obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Iberoamericana , Mexico City, in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. After working as an R&D engineer at the Instituto Mexicano del Petr�leo in 1978, he joined Carnegie Mellon in 1979. He was Director of the Synthesis Laboratory from the Engineering Design Research Center in 1988-93. Together with Professors Biegler, Sahinidis, Siirola and Ydstie, he is director of the "Center for Advanced Process Decision-making" which comprises over 20 petroleum, chemical and engineering companies.

Ignacio Grossmann is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , Mexican Academy of Engineering, and associate editor of AIChE Journal and member of editorial board of Computers and Chemical Engineering, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization and Engineering, Latin American Applied Research, and Process Systems Engineering Series. He was Chair of the Computers and Systems Technology Division of AIChE , and co-chair of the 1989 Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design Conference and 2003 Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations Conference. Major awards include the 1984 Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 1994 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of the CAST Division of AIChE, the 1997 William H. Walker Award of AIChE, and in 2002, Honorary Doctor in Technology from �bo Akademi in Finland, Fellow of INFORMS and AICHE, Top 15 Most Cited Author in Computer Science by ISI. 2003 INFORMS Computing Prize Award, 2007 Kun Li Award for Excellence in Education, in 2007 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Maribor, Slovenia, in 2008 named as one of the �One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era� by AICHE, in 2009 received the Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education by AIChE, in 2011 the Research Excellence in Sustainable Engineering Award from AIChE, and in 2012 received the Doctor in Engineering Honoris Causa, from the Technical University of Dortmund. He was also recipient of the Best Technical Paper in 1988, 1996, 1998 and 2000 of Computers and Chemical Engineering. He was the 6th Robert Vaughn Lecturer at Caltech in 1986, the 18th Ashton Hall Cary Lecturer at Georgia Tech in 2002, the 2005 Kelly Lecturer at Purdue University,10th Roger Sargent Lecture, Imperial College in 2003, Kelly Lecture, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University in 2005, Pfizer Distinguished Lecture, University of Kansas in 2006, ExxonMobil Lecture, University of Massachusetts in 2007, Walter J. Weber, Jr. Distinguished Lecture in Environmental and Energy Sustainability, University of Michigan in 2012, Chemical Engineering Distinguished Lecture, University of Western Ontario in 2012, Texas Distinguished Faculty Lectureship, University of Texas, Austin in 2012, and the Mary Upson Visiting Professor at Cornell in 1986-87. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Sigma Xi, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and American Chemical Society.

The research interests of Ignacio Grossmann are in the areas of process synthesis, energy integration, process flexibility, planning and scheduling of batch and continuous processes, supply chain optimization, and mixed-integer and logic-based optimization. He has authored more than 300 papers, several monographs on design cases studies, and the textbook "Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design." Professor Grossmann has graduated 39 Ph.D. and 5 M.S. students. He has taught short courses at PLAPIQUI, Bah�a Blanca and INTEC, Santa F�, Argentina; IIT, Bombay, India; Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Instituto Tecnol�gico de Celaya, Mexico; ITESM, Mexico; Universidad de Santiago, Chile; Imperial College, London; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City; Universidad Roviri e Virgili, Spain; Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland; University of Dortmund, Germany; Universidad de Cantabria and Universidad de Valladolid, Spain; Instituto Mexicano del Petr�leo, Mexico.