Ignacio E. Grossmann
Guest of Director 2024–2025

Ignacio E. Grossmann is the R. R. Dean University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and former department head at Carnegie Mellon University. His main research interests lie in the areas of discrete/continuous optimization, particularly mixed-integer nonlinear programming and generalized disjunctive programming, optimal synthesis and planning of chemical processes through superstructure optimization. His research further engages with questions around the optimization of expansion planning of reliable and resilient power systems with high penetration of renewables, the logistics and field management of CO2 capture and sequestration, optimization models for digital supply chain optimization, and stochastic programming methods for optimization under uncertainty.

He obtained his BS degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1974, and his MS and PhD at Imperial College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He has authored more than 700 papers, several monographs on design case studies, the recent textbook Advanced Optimization in Process Systems Engineering, and the textbook Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design, which he co-authored with Larry Biegler and Art Westerberg.