Professor Efstratios N. (Stratos) Pistikopoulos FREng is an alumnus of Professor Ignacio Grossmann from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a distinguished research Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, as well as the Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute. From 1991-2015, he was a Professor for Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, where he pioneered multi-parametric programming and invented the concept of explicit or multi-parametric model predictive control. He has authored and co/authored more than 350 peer reviewed journal articles, authored and/or edited 9 books and has been an invited speaker to many academic conferences and lectures, including the 21st Professor Roger W. H. Sargent lecture at Imperial College London (held on 4 December