Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas (August 31, 1959 – August 14, 2016) was a Greek–American chemical engineer. Floudas completed a diploma in chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1982, and received his Ph.D. in 1986 at

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under the guidance of

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. Floudas began teaching at Princeton University upon earning his doctorate, and was later named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science. From February 2015, he was the director of the Energy Institute at Texas A&M University, as well as the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence within the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering. His research areas were global optimization and

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. In 2011, Floudas was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering " r contributions to theory, methods, and applications of global optimization in

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, and molecular biology." In 2013, he was elected a fellow of the

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. From 2014 to 2015, Floudas was listed as one of the

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. His h-index is 100 according to ''Google Scholar''.

Personal life

Floudas was born in

Ioannina Ioannina ( el, Ιωάννινα ' ), often called Yannena ( ' ) within Greece, is the capital and largest city of the Ioannina regional unit and of Epirus, an administrative region in north-western Greece. According to the 2011 census, the c ...

, Greece on 31 August 1959. He died on 14 August 2016 while on vacation in Chalkidiki, Greece at the age of 56.

References

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