Efstratios Pistikopoulos is the Associate Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, as well as a TEES Distinguished Research Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Until recently and for 24 years (1991-2015) he has been a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where he was the Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering between 2002 and 2009.

He received the Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1984, and continued his education with his Ph.D. studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh under the supervision of the esteemed Professor Grossmann.

He worked with Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam before joining Imperial in 1991. He has authored or co-authored over 350 major research publications in the areas of modelling, control and optimization of process, energy and systems engineering applications, 10 books and 2 patents.

A Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Editor of Computers & Chemical Engineering, Co-Editor of the Book Series in Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and Process Systems Engineering (Wiley-VCH), on the Editorial Boards of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2011-2013), the Journal of Global Optimization and the Journal of Computational Management Science, Professor Pistikopoulos has been a co-founder of Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Ltd and a founder/director of Parametric Optimization Solutions (ParOS) Ltd.

In 2007, Prof. Pistikopoulos was a co-recipient of the prestigious MacRobert Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering; in 2008, he received an Advanced Investigator Award from the European Research Council; in 2009, he delivered the Bayer Lecture in Process Systems Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and in 2014, the 21st Professor Roger Sargent Lecture at Imperial College London.

In 2012, he received the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). He received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2014, and from the University of Pannonia in 2015. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK. Since 2016 he is the Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering.