Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Guillén Gosálbez - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich
Short bio
Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez completed his M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Murcia (Spain), and his Ph.D. in Process Systems Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), working afterward as Fulbright Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University (US). He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) in 2008, before moving to The University of Manchester (UK) in 2014 and to Imperial College London (UK) in 2016. Since February 2019, he works as Professor in Chemical Systems Engineering in the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of ETH Zürich (Switzerland).
Dr. Guillén-Gosálbez’s research interests focus on the simultaneous optimization of the environmental and economic performance of process industries. He currently sits on the Editorial Boards of the journals Sustainable Production and Consumption and Helvetica, and participates in the steering committee of the NCCR Catalysis Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research and in the EU panel on Safe and sustainable by design chemicals and materials. He has received several awards, including the Senior Moulton Medal of the IChemE, the Top Doctoral Student Award of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, and the Young Investigator Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.