Authors

Dr. Jamal Chaouki is currently a full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique (P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montréal, Canada, email: jamal.chaouki@polymtl.ca). He has been teaching process design and reaction engineering courses for over 30 years. His positions have included: Director of the Bio-refinery Center and Technical Program Director of the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, process and technology consultant to several large companies in Canada, Morocco, Europe and the United States. His major research interests include the application of fundamental approaches to problems of industrial relevance in process design and fluidization. He holds a B. Eng. degree in chemical engineering from France’s ENSIC de Nancy, plus an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Reaction Engineering from Canada’s Polytechnique de Montreal. He has also been a visiting scientist at TOTAL. Professor Chaouki has 40 patented technologies generating significant royalties, has authored 20 books and book chapters and more than 850 publications in major international journals, conferences and technical reports. He has also mentored 60 postdoctoral fellows, and 100 PhD and master students. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Product and Process Modeling published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Germany and a Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh is currently a full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tehran (P.O. Box 11155–4563, Iran; email: sotudeh@ut.ac.ir). He teaches process modeling and simulation, transport phenomena and fluidization, plant design and economics and soft skills. His research interests include computer-aided process design and simulation, fluidization, and engineering education. He holds a B.Eng. degree in chemical engineering from Iran’s Sharif University of Technology, plus a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Fluidization Engineering from Canada’s Polytechnique. He has been an invited Professor at Qatar University and Polytechnique de Montréal. Professor Sotudeh has more than 300 publications in major international journals and conferences, plus 4 books and 4 book chapters. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Product and Process Modeling published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Germany, a Member of the Iranian Elite Foundation and an official expert (OE) on the oil industry with the Iranian Official Expert Organization (IOEO).