Congratulations to Prof. Styliani Avraamidou on receiving the 2026 Young Investigator Award from the Environmental Division of AIChE!

We are delighted to welcome two new members to the group: Danbee Park, a visiting researcher from Korea University, and Jiayang Ren, who joins us as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome to Madison!

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou and Meng-Lin Tsai attended the 2026 VIFF Community Convening in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 23–24, 2026.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou gave a presentation at the workshop Future Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Supply Chains: Building Resource Efficiency, Resilience and Circularity, held September 17–18, 2026 in Washington, DC. The workshop brought together leaders from industry, academia, and government to discuss resource efficiency, resilience, and circularity in pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains.

Our group is excited to participate in the TWCCC Fall 2026 Meeting, held in person on September 14 and 15, 2026 here in Madison, Wisconsin! Selected Talks Posters

Ashley McCullough interned at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and Paola Munoz Briones interned at Dow.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou attended FIPSE-7, the 7th conference on Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering, held July 6–8, 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Parth Brahmbhatt interned at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) from July 2026 to October 2026.

Prof. Styliani Avraamidou presented our data center research at the SuSChemE–SUSTENS2 conference (Sustainable Chemical Engineering Systems), held June 28–30, 2026 in Athens, Greece.

Javiera Vergara Zambrano, Parth Brahmbhatt, and Prof. Styliani Avraamidou presented their work at ESCAPE 36, the 36th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, held June 21–24, 2026 at the University of Sheffield in the UK.