Professor Ioannis G. Economou holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1987) and a Ph.D. also in Chemical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1992). Subsequently, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (1993 – 94) and in Exxon Research and Engineering Company, in New Jersey, USA (1994 – 95). From 1995 to 2009, he worked at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece where he held the position of Director of Molecular Thermodynamics and Modeling of Materials Laboratory from 2003 to 2009. From 2009 until 2012, he was the Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi. In 2013, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University in Qatar and in 2017 he was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
He held various visiting/research positions including research fellow in University College London (1994 – 96) and Princeton University (2004 and 2015), and visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (2001 and 2006 - 07) and the American College of Greece (2007 - 09). Furthermore, he has consulted extensively for major oil and chemical companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Prof. Economou has supervised 18 MSc students, 14 Ph.D. students, and 18 post-docs, he has published 210 peer-reviewed research papers in leading journals in Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry, and Polymer Science. In addition, he co-authored 10 book chapters and co-edited 1 book entitled “Natural Gas Processing from Midstream to Downstream” (Wiley, 2019). His H-index is 50 according to Scholar Google. He has given approximately 350 presentations at conferences, universities, and industrial research centers worldwide.
Prof. Economou’s research interests are related to the development and validation of multi-scale thermodynamic models for the oil & gas, chemical, and pharmaceutical industry. In recent years, he developed models for CO2 capture, transportation, and sequestration technologies, shale gas technology, aqueous systems, green solvents, pharmaceuticals, and soft materials including polymers, ionic liquids, metal-organic frameworks, etc. He has led several international research projects with partners from Denmark (The Technical University of Denmark), France (Scienomics Sarl), Germany (Bayer Technology Services and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Greece (several Universities and research centers), The Netherlands (the Delft University of Technology and Shell Global Solutions), Poland (Adam Mickiewicz University), Russia (Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, and Moscow State University), United Kingdom (Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Leeds) and USA (Princeton University, University of Maryland and Texas A&M University).
From 2007 to 2014, he was the Founding Chairman of the Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is Editor of Fluid Phase Equilibria, and a member of the Editorial Board in the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data.
Additional information can be found here:
https://www.qatar.tamu.edu/programs/chemical-engineering/faculty-and-staff/dr.-ioannis-economou
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EIcI9NwAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-6831
Selected recent publications
1. M. Vasileiadis, L.D. Peristeras, K.D. Papavasileiou and I.G. Economou, “Transport Properties of Shale Gas in Relation to Kerogen Porosity”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 122(11), 6166 – 6177 (2018).
2. M.S. Santos, L.F.M. Franco, M. Castier and I.G. Economou, “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of n-Alkanes and CO2 Confined by Calcite Nanopores”, Energy & Fuels, 32(2), 1934 – 1941 (2018).
3. I.K. Nikolaidis, G.C. Boulougouris, L.D. Peristeras and I.G. Economou, “Efficient and Robust Methods for Direct Saturation Point Calculations”, Fluid Phase Equil., 500, 112242, 1 – 21 (2019).
4. P. Krokidas, S. Moncho, E.N. Brothers and I.G. Economou, “Defining New Limits in Gas Separations Using Modified ZIF Systems”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12(18), 20536 - 20547 (2020).
5. J.-N. Jaubert, Y. Le Guennec, A. Piña-Martinez, N. Ramirez-Velez, S. Lasala, B. Schmid, I.K. Nikolaidis, I.G. Economou and R. Privat, “Benchmark Database Containing Binary-System-High-Quality-Certified Data for Cross-Comparing Thermodynamic Models and Assessing their Accuracy”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 59(33), 14981 – 15027 (2020).
6. K.D. Papavasileiou, L.D. Peristeras, A. Bick and I.G. Economou, “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the n-Octacosane – Water Mixture Confined in Graphene Mesopores: Comparison of Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Calculations and the Effect of Catalyst Nanoparticle”, Energy & Fuels, 35(5), 4313 – 4332 (2021).
Book Editor
1. N.O. Elbashir, M.M. El-Halwagi, I.G. Economou and K.R. Hall, Natural Gas Processing from Midstream to Downstream, Wiley, USA (2019).