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5th “Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes” Distinguished Lecture
The 15th “Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes” Distinguished Lecture event of FORTH/ICE-HT is organized on Thursday, 3 December 2026 at the Conference Center of FORTH/ICE-HT in Patras. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Emeritus of the National Technical University of Athens Andreas Boudouvis, former Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (2019 to 2023) and former Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering (2013–2016).
His lecture is titled “Advances and Challenges in Computational Process Engineering”. A short abstract can be found here.
Andreas G. Boudouvis is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and served as Rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) from 2019 to 2023. He was Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering (2013–2016) and Director of the interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme in Computational Mechanics at NTUA (201–2026). He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from NTUA and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (USA). He has served as a Visiting Professor and Researcher at Université de Lorraine (France), Fondation STAE (France), and Johns Hopkins University (USA). He served as Co-President of the European University Alliance EULiST (2021–2023) and is currently a member of its Advisory Council. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Transport Phenomena and Computational Methods. His research focuses on the computational analysis of transport phenomena, multiscale modeling, model order reduction, machine learning, and large-scale scientific computing. In 2024, he received the Excellence in University Teaching Award from the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
The “Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes” Distinguished Lecture is an annual event, organized by FORTH/ICE-HT since 2011 to honor the memory of Alkiviades Ch. Payatakes (1945-2009), Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, Director of FORTH/ICE-HT (1999-2006), and Chairman of FORTH from 2006 until his premature death on the November 29 2009. This year, the event is combined with the 6th Workshop of Graduates and Post-Docs in Chemical Engineering Sciences (ΗΜΜΕ6), which will take place on 4 December 2026.