Richard Lakerveld

Richard Lakerveld is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He joined the CBE department of HKUST in October 2014 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He was an Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology for 2 years before joining the faculty of HKUST. Prior to that, he worked for 2 years as Postdoctoral Associate at the Process Systems Engineering Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the group of Paul Barton. At MIT, he worked on plant-wide control of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing and on optimal control of directed self-assembly. He received his chemical engineering education from Delft University of Technology where he obtained both his MSc (with honors track) and PhD degree cum laude. His PhD research involved the development of a task-based design approach for solution crystallization processes under supervision of Johan Grievink, Peter Jansens, and Herman Kramer. Furthermore, he was the recipient of an NWO Veni Award in 2013, which is an early career award from the Dutch Science Foundation. His other personal awards include a VNCI award, the Novartis-MIT Enabling Control System Award, and five GRF Awards from Hong Kong's Science Foundation, which are competitive personal grants aimed at supporting cutting-edge research. He also received the School of Engineering Teaching Award for undegraduate teaching and was awarded the Best Teaching Award of the MSc CBME program. He is a member of the 2019 Class of Influential Researchers of the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research and he is an editorial board member of Chemical Engineering Research and Design (Elsevier). His research interests are in the field of Process Systems Engineering with a focus on the design and manufacture of crystalline and self-assembled materials. When time permits, he likes to take his bike for a road trip or spend some time on the football pitch.

Education

• PhD Technische Universiteit Delft (2005 — 2010)
• MSc Delft University of Technology (1999 — 2005)