Education Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986 M.S., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985 Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1981

Awards AIChE Research Excellence In Sustainable Engineering Award, 2014 AIChE Fellow, 2012 AIChE UCLA Student Chapter Professor of the Year Award, 2011 AIChE Environmental Division Lawrence K. Cecil Award, 2010 AIChE UCLA Student Chapter Award, 2007 1998 & 2001 Ted Peterson Student Paper Award (Co-author) 1989 Northrop Award for Outstanding Research 1988 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

Plasma simulation, process design, process optimization, process control

Ghougassian, P., Pena Lopez, J. A., Manousiouthakis, V. I., Smirniotis, P., ” CO2 capturing from power plant flue gases: Energetic comparison of amine absorption with MgO based, heat integrated, pressure–temperature-swing adsorption”, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 22, pp. 256–271, 2014 Conner J. A., and Manousiouthakis, V. I., ” On the Attainable Region for Process Networks”, AIChE Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, 193-212, January 2014