CURRICULUM VITAE Professor Karl Tapio Westerlund Abo˚ Akademi University, Abo,˚ Finland Biographical data Born: 1949 in Helsinki Finland. Citizenship: Finnish. Marital status: Married 1975 to MA Malena Torvalds-Westerlund (b.Torvalds). Children: Lic Phil Kasper b.1976, PhD Joakim b.1978 and MA Anna Moa b.1982. Studies and exams MSc (diplomingenj¨orsexamen)1975-06-13, Abo˚ Akademi University. Lic Tech (teknologie licentiatexamen) 1977-11-23, Abo˚ Akademi University. PhD exam (teknologie doktorsexamen) 1980-06-09, Abo˚ Akademi University. (Main subject: Process Control (Excellent). Supplementary subjects: Mathematics and Data Processing (Excellent), Process Design (Excellent) and Heat Engineering (Excellent)). PhD degree (teknologie doktors grad u.s.p.) 1980-10-07. Finnish language certificate 1981-04-23. Conferred doctors' degree (promoverad till teknologie doktor) 1988-05-27. Positions Acting senior lecturer in Mathematics at Abo˚ Akademi University 1978-01-01 to 1978-03-15. Visiting research at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Tech- nology in Trondheim 1978-09-01 to 1979-05-31. Acting senior lecturer in Mathematics at Abo˚ Akademi University 1979-08-01 to 1981-02-28. Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Process Control with applications in process design, Abo˚ Akademi University (AAU)˚ 1981-03-31 to 1986-08-31. Senior lecturer in Mathematics at Abo˚ Akademi University 1981-08-01 to 1984-07-31 (1986-07-31). Acting associate Professor of Mech. Engng. at Abo˚ Akademi University 1984-08-01 to 1985-08-31. Acting Professor of Process Design at Abo˚ Akademi University 1985-09-01 to 1986-08-31. Professor of Process Design (with tenure) at Abo˚ Akademi University 1986-09-01 to 2017-10-31. Professor emeritus of Process Design at Abo˚ Akademi University since 2017-11-01. Research Professor in the Nordic Energy Research Programme "Process Integration" funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers 1998-12-01 to 1999-12-31. Head of the Research Institute of the Foundation of AAU˚ 1998-10-01 to 2002-12-31. Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Applied Mathematics (especially optimization), University of Turku since 2016-12-14. Docent (Adjunct Professor) of Mathematics with engineering applications, AAU˚ since 2020-06-15. Memberships in scientific societies Member in the Technical Society of Finland (Tekniska f¨oreningeni Finland), the Nordenski¨oldSo- ciety in Finland r.s., American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), AIChE Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland (ledamot av Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademin (STV) i Finland). Scientific commissions Referee (1980-) for several papers in different International Process Control and Chemical Engi- neering Conferences and the following Scientific Journals: AIChE Journal, Automatica, Biotech- nology Progress, Chemical Engineering Communications, Chemical Engineering Science, Com- puters and Chemical Engineering, Engineering Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, Global Optimization of Engineering Design, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, International Journal of Control, Journal of Process Control, Journal of Global Opti- mization, Modelling Identification and Control, Optimization and Engineering. 1 External examiner at the public defence of the following doctor's dissertations: Per-Erik Mod´en's doctor's dissertation at the Institute of Technology, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1981-06-03, Tor Onshu's doctor's dissertation at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1986-09-09, (member of the scientific board at the public defence of Xuegong Bi's doctor's dissertation at the Department of Applied Metallurgy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, 1989-03-08), Per Alvfor's doctor's dissertation at the Department of Heat Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, 1990-06-01, Bernt Lien's doctor's dissertation at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1990-12-18, Morten Hyllseth's doctor's dissertation at the Department of Thermal Energy at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1991-05-08, Tor Steinar Schei's doctor's dissertation at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Nor- way, 1992-06-11, Tuomas Paloposki's doctor's dissertation at the Technical University of Helsinki, Finland, 1994-03-19, Hanne Marie Kvamsdal's doctor's dissertation at the Department of Chem- ical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1995-06-20, Hilde Christine Meisingset's doctor's dissertation at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1995-10-06, Helge Didriksen's doc- tor's dissertation at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1996-12-10, Svein Kv˚ale's doctor's dissertation at the Department of Thermal Energy and Hydro Power at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1998-06-09, Oyvind Gundersen's doctor's dissertation at the Division of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim Norway, 1999-02-09, Martin Siljan's doctor's dissertation at Technical University of Telemark, Norway, 2002-12-03, Costas Panos Tsiaki's doctor's dissertation at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 2002-12-17, Leo Liberti's doctor's dissertation at Im- perial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 2004-03-15, Aaron Levis's doctor's dissertation at University College of London, 2004-12-26. Prior examination of the following doctor's dissertations: TkL Tore Gustafsson's doctor's thesis in Process Control at Abo˚ Akademi University, Finland 1984, FL Heikki Ruskeep¨a¨a's doctor's thesis in Applied Mathematics at the University of Turku (Turun Yliopisto), Finland, 1985, TkL Martti H¨ark¨onen's doctor's thesis in Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Tampere, Finland, 1991, TkL Juha Tanskanen's doctor's thesis in Process Engineering at Oulu University, Finland, 1998, TkL Pasi Makkonen's doctor's thesis in Process Engineering at Technical Univer- sity of Lappeenranta, Finland, 1999, TkL Jukka Nurminen's doctor's thesis in Systems Analysis at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2003, TkL Antti Pyh¨alahti's doctor's thesis at the Department of Chemical Technology at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2005, MSc Luis Perez Sanchez's PhD thesis at University of Pisa, 2010, TkL Timo Laukkanen's doctor's the- sis at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki, 2012, MSc Eric Newby's PhD thesis in Mathematics at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013. Examination of the scientific qualifications for the following higher University positions (read- erships (docents) and correponding): A reader (docent) in Process Control at Abo˚ Akademi University, Finland, 1987, a readership position in Chemical Process Design at the Technical University of Lappeenranta, Finland, 1993, a readership position in Process Engineering at the Technical University of Lappeenranta, Finland, 1994, a readership position in Separation Tech- nology (nesteen ja kiintoaineen erotuksen dosentti) at the Technical University of Lappeenranta, Finland, 2000, a position as Senior Lecturer at the University College London, 2002, a position as Reader at the University College London, 2004 and examiner in a jury to evaluate a candidates habilitation qualifications (de l'habilitation a diriger des recherche (HDR)) at Universite' Paris IX Lamsade, for higher University positions in France, Paris 2007, a readership position in Applied Mathematics at the University of Turku, Finland, 2011, a position as Lecturer in Process Systems Engineering at Aalto University, 2015. 2 Examination of the scientific qualifications for the following professor positions: A position as Professor of Engineering Cybernetics (Process Control) at the Norwegian Institute of Technol- ogy, Norway, 1985, a position as Professor of Chemical Engineering (Thermodynamics, physical property data and transport phenomena) at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway, 1989, a position as Professor II of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway, 1991, a position as Associate Professor of Energy Economics at the Technical University of Helsinki, Finland, 1993, a position as Professor of Process Plant Design at the Technical Uni- versity of Helsinki, Finland, 1994, a position as Professor II of Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Telemark, Norway, 1995, a position as Professor of Process Plant Design at the Technical University of Helsinki, Finland, 1997, a position as Professor of Process Sys- tems Engineering at Technical University of Lappeenranta, Finland, 1998, a position as Professor of Information Technology (Industrial Optimization) at University of Jyv¨askyl¨a,Finland, 2006- 2007, a position as full Professor with tenure at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 2007, a position as Professor of Process Plant Design at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki, Finland, 2010 and a position as Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London,