Benoit Chachuat

Research Interests

The overall goal of our research is to develop safe, economically and environmentally sustainable chemical and biological processes through the synergistic use of advanced computational modelling and optimisation methods and process data. Our vision of process systems engineering has a strong focus on rigorous computation to predict the performance at scale of both existing and novel technology and empower decision-making, and we work in close collaboration with experimentalists. We furthermore develop software tools that implement these methods to ensure their dissemination

Education

• PhD Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine (1998 — 2002)
• DEA Universite Louis Pasteur (1997 — 1998)
• Dipl-Ing Ecole nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg (1995 — 1998)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Companies

• Professor of Process Systems Engineering Imperial College London (2020)
• Reader Imperial College London (2015 — 2020)
• Senior Lecturer Imperial College London (2010 — 2015)
• Assitant Professor McMaster University (2008 — 2010)
• Research Associate and Lecturer EPFL (2005 — 2008)
• Postdoctoral Associate MIT (2003 — 2005)
• Postdoctoral Associate INRIA (2002 — 2003)