CURRICULUM VITAE Professor Karl Tapio Westerlund Abo˚ Akademi University, Abo,˚ Finland Biographical data Born: 1949 in 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, , 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, UK, 2012-2013, a position as full Professor with tenure at Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2016. Other scientific commissions: Expert report on the scientific qualifications in several applications for different positions as research assistants (forskningsassistenter), younger researchers (yngre forskare), senior researchers (¨aldreforskare) and senior research fellows (l¨angrehunna vetenskap- sidkare) at the Academy of Finland (teknisk vetenskapliga kommissionen) 1986-1988 and Academy of Finland (teknisk naturvetenskapliga kommissionen) 1995-. Referee for the research committee at the Norwegian University of Science and Techology to evaluate some strategic research pro- grams for NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and the Norwegian research council, member of a refereepool for the Academy of Finland, scientific referee for NorFA (Nordic Academy of Advanced Study), referee for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, U.S.A., referee for Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria, referee for the Technology Foundation STW, Netherlands, referee for the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, external evaluator for academic personnel recruitment at Aristotele University of Tessaloniki, Greece. Some commissions of confidence Member of the international program committee (IPC) for the 4th IFAC (International Federa- tion of Automatic Control) Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, 1983. ”Symposium editor” for the symposium, member of the program committee for Chemistry Days 82 and Chemistry Days 86, in Finland, member of the organisation committee for some IN- SKO (technical continuation courses) in Finland 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 och 1988, member of the international program committee (IPC) for the IFAC Workshop on Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes in Frankfurt, 1985, member of the international program committee (IPC) for ICheaP- 5, the 5th Italian Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Firenze 2001, member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations, Florida 2003, member of the program committee for the 13th European Conference on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE13, 2003, member of the international program committee (IPC) for ICheap-6, the 6th Italian Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Pisa, 2003, scientific panel member (managing complexity) of the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineer- ing, Glasgow, Scotland, 2005, member of the International Scientific Committee of the 7th Italian Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, ICheap-7, Naxos Italy, 2005, member of the International Scientific Committee of the 8th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, ICheap-8, Ischia Italy, 2007, member of the International Program Committee of the 2010 CSDM (Complex Systems Design and Management) Conference in Paris 2010, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the 2011 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia, additional IPC member and reviewer of the 10th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, ICheap-10, Florence Italy, 2011, member of the international program committee for the 21th European Conference

3 on Process Systems Engineering, ESCAPE21, in Greece 2011, member of the International Pro- gram Committee for the 22th European Conference on Process Systems Engineering, ESCAPE22, in U.K. London 2012, member of the Scientific Committee for the Global Optimization Workshop, GOW’12, in Natal, Brazil June 2012, member of the Technical Advisory Committee of FOCAP 2012, (Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations), in Georgia U.S.A. 2012, member of the national program committee for the 23th European Conference on Process Systems Engineer- ing, ESCAPE23, in Finland 2013, member of the Advisory Committee of the World Congress on Global Optimization WCGO 2015, in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., Feb 22-25, 2015, member of the International Scientific Committee of GOW’16, the XIII Global Optimization Workshop, at the University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal, September 4-8, 2016, member of the International Program Committee for the 27th European Conference on Process Systems En- gineering, ESCAPE27, in , Spain, October 1-5, Spain2017, member of the International Program Committee of the International Conference on Process Systems Engineering, PSE-2018, in San Diego, July 1-5, 2018, U.S.A. Member of the board of the Technical Society of Finland, 1984-1985 and 1985-1986. Head of the Process Design and Systems Engineering Laboratory at AAU,˚ 1985-09-01- 2017-10-31. Chairman (kustos) at the public defence of doctor’s dissertations at Abo˚ Akademi University: TkL Jarl Ahlbeck 1989, DI Antti Kilpinen 1990, TkL Pertti Heikkil¨a1993, DI Frank Pettersson 1994, DI Iiro Harjunkoski 1997, DI Hans Skrifvars 1998, DI Carl-Gustav Berg 1999, M.Sc. Nenad Milosavljevic 2000, M.A. Ray P¨orn(applied mathematics) 2000, DI Stefan Karlsson 2001, DI Jerker Bj¨orkqvist2001, DI Janne Rosl¨of2002, DI Kaj-Mikael Bj¨ork2002, FL Stefan Emet (applied mathematics) 2004, DI Per Jernstr¨om2006, FL Claus Still (industrial systems engineering) 2007, M.A. Andreas Lundell (applied mathematics) 2009, M.Sc. Cataldo De Blasio 2010, DI Toni Lastusilta 2011, DI Axel Nyberg 2014, M.A. Anders Skj¨al(applied mathematics) 2014, M.Sc. Claudio Carletti 2015, DI Otto Nissfolk 2016 and DI Jan Kronqvist 2018. Member of the technical-scientific commission at the Academy of Finland 1986-1988. Member of a committee set up by the Ministery of Trade in Finland to evaluate the results from the energy research in Finland and to make a plan for energy research in Finland for 1990-1995. Member of the board of the Research Institute of the Foundation of Abo˚ Akademi University for the periods 1.1.1989-31.12.1991 and 1.1.1992-31.12.1994. Member of the board of the Finnish Institute for Future Studies 1993-1995 and 1996-1998. Dean of the Department of Chemical Engineering at AAU˚ 1.1.1992-31.12.1993. Member of the following boards, commissions, panels etc. at Abo˚ Akademi University: The board of the open university (delegationen f¨or¨oppnah¨ogskolan) 1.1.1981-31.12.1983, the board of the course centre (ledningsgruppen f¨orkurscentralen) 1.4.1982-31.12.1986, the panel of ex- ams(examensn¨amnden)(deputy member) 1.8.1985-31.7.1994, the board of the course centre (led- ningsgruppen f¨orkurscentralen) (deputy member) 1.1.1987-31.12.1996, the election panel (val- n¨amnden)1.9.1987-31.12.1991, the board of Abo˚ Akademi University (Abo˚ Akademis styrelse) 1.1.1992-31.12.1993, the language panel (spr˚akn¨amnden)1.8.1987-31.7.2003, the board of the li- brary of Abo˚ Akademi University (direktionen f¨or Abo˚ Akademis bibliotek) 1.1.2005-31.12.2007, 1.1.2008-31.12.2010, the research etichs panel (forskningsetiska n¨amnden)13.6.2005-2014, as well as a large number of different working groups (arbetsgrupper) at Abo˚ Akademi University in different periods since 1975-. Master of ceremonies at the Doctor’s conferment during the 80th aniversery of AAU˚ in 1998. Promotor at Doctor’s conferment, Department of Chemical Engineering at of AAU,˚ 2004-2005. Head of the Research Institute of the Foundation of Abo˚ Akademi University from 1998-2002. Member of the board of the Graduate School in Energy Science and Technology, 2003-2010. Member of the advisory board of MINLP World, 2001- Member of the editorial board of Research Letters in Chemical Engineering, 2007-2008. Associate editor and member of the editorial board of International Journal of Chemical Engi- neering, 2008-2017. Associate editor and member of the editorial board of Journal of Global Optimization, 2012-

4 Associate editor and member of the editorial board of Springer Nature Operations Research Forum, 2019- Chairman of the board of the Center for Industrial Engineering and Management at Abo˚ Akademi University, 6.6.2004-31.12.2006, 1.1.2007-31.12.2009. The Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland (Svenska Tekniska Vetenskapsakademin (STV) i Finland), Member 1986-, Deputy member of the board 2004-2005, Member of the board 2006-2009. Chairman of the research group in Optimization and Systems Engineering at AAU˚ 2010-2017. Principal Investigator of the OSE-group while the group was a Center of Excellence within Re- search at Abo˚ Akademi University, 2010-2014, Deputy Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at AAU˚ 2013-2014, Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at AAU˚ 2015-2016. Awards and Honours O. Hugo Schuck best paper award for the paper: Identification and Control of an Industrial Dry Process Cement Kiln, presented at the 1980 Joint Automatic Control Conference in San Francisco. The prize was awarded by the American Automatic Control Council. The German prize for meritorious technical research by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Abo˚ Akademi University, 1983. Zachris Topelius medal, given by Abo˚ Akademi University, 1999 and 2009. First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (FVR R I) awarded by the President of Finland in December 2012. Coin-OR Cup winner (with Andreas Lundell and Jan Kronqvist) for the work on The Supporting Hyperplane Optimization Toolkit (Shot), a new COIN-OR solver for MINLP (Mixed Integer Non-linear Programs) awarded by the COIN-OR (Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research) Foundation in November 2018. Teaching experience Given lectures and courses: Mathematics IV (numerical mathematics) (5 credits), at AAU,˚ 1979- 1983, Scientific Computing and Programming (datoranv¨andningoch programmering) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1979-1983, Experimental Design (f¨ors¨oksplanering)(2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1977, 1979-1984, Mathematics III (statistics) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1980-1984, Prediction error metods and linear controllers (prediktionsfelsmetoder och linj¨araregulatorer) (Ph.D. course) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1982, Statistical Methods in Process Control (stokastiska metoder i processreglering) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1984-1985, Estimation Theory (estimeringsteori) (Ph.D. course) (5 credits), at AAU,˚ 1988, 1990, 1993, Mechanical Engineering (maskinteknik) (3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1984, Process Plant Design (fabriksplanering) (3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1984-1997, 2003-, Equipment Design (appa- ratkonstruktion) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1985, Process Design (anl¨aggnings-och apparatteknik) (4-5 credits), at AAU,˚ 1985-1997, 2003-2008, Process Design and Systems Engineering (anl¨aggnings- och systemteknik) (9 cp), at AAU,˚ 2008-, Energy Technology for the Process Industry (Pro- cessindustrins energiteknik) (2 credits), at AAU,˚ 1985-1988, Energy and Measuring Technology for the Process Industry (Processindustriell- energi och m¨atteknik)(3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1989-1998, 2003-, Project Work in Environmental Engineering (Projekteringsarbete i milj¨ov˚ardsteknik)(3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1991-1997, 2003-, Mathematical Programming (Ph.D. course) (2,3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1997, 1998, Process- and Production Optimization by Mathematical Programming (Ph.D. course) (3 credits), at AAU,˚ 1999. Supervision: Supervisor of about 160 undergraduate (B.Sc., M.A. or M.Sc.) theses and 40 post- graduate (Lic.Techn, Dr.Techn. or PhD) theses at Abo˚ Akademi University. Main part of the theses are in Process Design but some Master’s, Licentiate and Doctor’s theses are also in Process Control, Heat Engineering, Physics and Applied Mathematics. (Topics of the theses and names of the students on separate lists.)

5 Research funding The research has been funded by University (Abo˚ Akademi University) as well as by external re- sources. The main external sources have been the Academy of Finland, European Union Research Programs, the Nordic Energy Research Program, Technology Agency of Finland and industry. Publications About 360 Scientific publications, proceedings papers, books, book chapters and reports. (List of papers and citations can be found on the web page: http://users.abo.fi/twesterl/) Congresses, seminars and guest lectures Congresses: 18th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A., 1979, 1980 Joint Automatic Control Conference, San Francisco, U.S.A., 1980. (The presentation and the paper was awarded the O. Hugo Schuck best paper award by the American Automatic Control Council), Automation days, Helsinki, 1981, Joint Automatic Control Conference, Char- lottesville, U.S.A., 1981, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) arranged work- shop Impact of Automatic Control: Present and Future, Heidelberg, Germany, 1982, 3rd Confer- ence Optimal-Control Theory and Applications, Leipzig, Germany, 1983, 4th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, 1983, Third IASTED International Sympo- sium MIC’84, Switzerland, 1984, International 85 Monastir Conference on Modelling and Simula- tion, 1985, CEF (Chemical Engineering Fundamentals) 87 Congress, Italy, 1987, The Engineering Foundations’ Congress: Control of Particulate Process Operations, 1989. 21st European Sympo- sium on Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering, ComChem’90, Haag, The Netherlands, 1990, 22nd European Symposium of the Working Party on Use of Computers in Chemical En- gineering, COPE-91, Barcelona, Spain, 1991, 24th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-2, Toulouse, France, 1992, European Forum for CAPE Research, Trondheim, Norway, 1993, Twelfth IASTED International Symposium on Modelling, Identification and Control, Innsbruck, Austria, 1993, European Forum for CAPE Research, Aachen, Germany, 1994, Thirteenth IASTED International Symposium on Modelling, Identification and Control, Grindelwald, Switzerland, 1994, European Forum for CAPE Research, Edinburgh, U.K, 1995, 27th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Pro- cess Engineering, ESCAPE-5, Bled, Slovenia, 1995, Fourth Specialized Conference on Operations Research and Engineering Design, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1995, CAPE (Computer Aided Process Egineering) Forum, Toulouse, France, 1996, 29th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-6, Greece, 1996, INFORMS (Institute for Opera- tions Research and Management Sciences) 97 San Diego, U.S.A., 1997, 30th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-7, Norway, 1997, 31th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE- 8, Belgium, 1998, International Conference on Process Integration, PI’99, Denmark, 1999, 32th European Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE- 9, Hungary, 1999, 33th Europenan Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-10, Italy, 2000, ICheaP-5, 5th Italian Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Italy, 2001, 36th Europenan Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-13, Finland, 2003, ICheaP-6, 6th Italian Conference on Chemi- cal and Process Engineering, Italy, 2003, 38th Europenan Symposium of the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE-15, Spain, 2005, AGO-2007, Agean Conference on Global Optimization, Greece, 2007, ICheaP-8, 8th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Italy, 2007, 79th Workshop on Global Optimization, Bad Honnef, Germany, 2007, INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) 07, in Seattle U.S.A., 2007, IMA Workshop, Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization; Algorithmic Advances and Applications, Minneapolis, U.S.A., 2008. ICheaP-9, 9th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Italy, 2009, ISMP-2009, 20th International Symposium on Mathemati- cal Programming, Chicago, USA, 2009, EWMINLP-2010, European Workshop on Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming, Marseille, France, 2010, 21st European Conference on Process Systems Engineering, ESCAPE-21, Greece, 2011, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Pro-

6 gramming, ISMP-2012, Berlin, 2012, ICheaP-11, 11th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Milano, Italy, 2013, 2014-MINLPWorkshop, Mixed Integer Nonlinear Pro- gramming Workshop (plenary lecture), Pittsburgh, USA, 2014, ICheaP-12, 12th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, Milano, Italy, 2015, 26st European Conference on Process Systems Engineering, ESCAPE-26, Portaroz, Slovenia, 2016, 27st European Confer- ence on Process Systems Engineering, ESCAPE-27, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. Guest lectures and visits: Division of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian Institute of Tech- nology, Trondheim, Norway, 1978-1979, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, U.S.A., 1979, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1981, Technical University of Lund, Sweden, 1981, Chalmers Technical University, , Sweden, 1981, University of Virginia, U.S.A., 1981, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trond- heim, Norway, 1983 Leipzig University of Technology, Germany, 1983, Faculte des Sciences et des Techniques, Monastir, Tunisia, 1985, Department of Thermal Energy, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1986, Department of Chemical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, 1986. University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., 1988, Stanford University, California, U.S.A., 1988, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A., 1988, Department of Heat Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1989. Divi- sion of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1990, Department of Thermal Energy, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1991, 1992, Division of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Nor- way, 1993, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1994, Maribor University, Maribor, Slovenia, 1994, Technical University of Telemark, Norway, 1995, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1995, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1995, 1996, Department of Systems Engineer- ing at Lule˚aUniversity, Sweden, 1996, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton Univer- sity, U.S.A. 1996, Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 1996, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1996, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1997, Department of Industrial Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden, 1998, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1998, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond- heim, Norway, 1998, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1999, Princeton University, Princeton, U.S.A., 2000, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 2000, Imperial College, London, U.K., 2001, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2001, University College London, U.K., 2001, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 2002, Princeton University, Princeton, U.S.A., 2002, University College London, U.K., 2003, Imperial College, London, U.K., 2004. University College London, U.K., 2004, Imperial College, London, U.K., 2004, Maribor University, Slovenia, 2005, University College London, U.K., 2006, Technical Uni- versity of Braunschweig, Germany, 2007, Universite’ Paris IX Lamsade, France, 2007, University College London, U.K., 2008, University of Minnesota, U.S.A., 2008, Centre International de Ren- contres Mathematiques, CIRM, Marseille, France, 2010, University College London, U.K., 2013, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 2014, University of the Witwatersrand, Johan- nesburg, South Africa, 2016.

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