Dr. Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez completed his MEng in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Murcia (Spain), following which he received his PhD in Process Systems Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), working afterward as Fulbright Scholar at Prof. Ignacio Grossmann’s group at Carnegie Mellon University (US). He then joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) in 2008, before becoming Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science of The University of Manchester (UK) in 2014. In 2016, he moved to Imperial College London (UK), where he worked as Associate Professor until January 2019. In February 2019, he joined the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering of ETH Zürich (Switzerland) as Associate Professor in Chemical Systems Engineering.

Dr. Guillén-Gosálbez’s research interests focus on the simultaneous optimization of the environmental and economic performance of process industries. He is at present Chair for Programming for the Sustainability Section of the AIChE Annual Meeting and Associate Editor of the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption. He has received several awards that recognize his academic and research accomplishments, including the Top Chemical Engineering Student Award (highest GPA in Spain), the Top Doctoral Student Award (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship and the Young Investigator Award of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering.