The PSE Academic division
PSE Academic is a division of Process Systems Enterprise dedicated to serving PSE's large academic customer base and furthering the use of the company's gPROMS process modelling software in academic institutions around the world.
PSE Academic was formed to cater for the increasing number of academic institutions using gPROMS as a key tool for research and teaching.
With skilled personnel entirely dedicated to the academic business, the operation enables PSE to provide a high level of response to academic customers' requirements, from support and implementation issues through to questions on modelling techniques.
In addition, PSE Academic allows PSE to maintain a high profile in the academic world, with activities such as seminars, workshops and training courses held at universities and research institutions and academic conferences.
Activities
PSE Academic operates from an office in Thessaloniki, Greece. Its activities include the following:
- organising and running training courses for academic users, as well as regular academic training courses.
- organising and running seminars highlighting gPROMS applications and capabilities.
- organising and running academic User Meetings at suitable times and locations.
- ensuring that the needs and requirements of academics are taken into account in PSE's development strategy.
- developing new products useful to academics — for example, course materials.
- providing information and material useful to academics - for example, lists of gPROMS-related publications — on the PSE web site.
- organising visits and presentations at universities and research centres from all over the world.
- providing a PSE presence at international conferences and key academic exhibitions.
Personnel
Professor Stratos Pistikopoulos — Executive Consultant
Prof. Stratos Pistikopoulos has executive responsibility for PSE's academic programme. As Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Centre or Process Systems Engineering (CPSE) at Imperial College London and a founder of PSE, Stratos has many years of experience at the forefront of modelling technology.
Since gaining his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1988, Stratos has written or co-authored over 200 research publications in the area of optimisation and process systems engineering application.
Dr
Michael Georgiadis — Business Development Manager
Michael has had a long-term involvement with PSE, and was one of the company's first employees. He is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in advanced process modelling and optimisation from Imperial College London and previously worked for the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute (CPERI) in Greece.
Michael has published numerous papers in the area of process modeling, simulation and production scheduling, and is the editor of a Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) book on the integration of process design and control. He has participated in several European Union collaborative research projects as coordinator and partner.
Dr Apostolos Giovanoglou — Academic
Consultant
Apostolos is responsible for day-to-day technical support and customer liaison. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an M.Sc. and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. He has worked in the area of process and thermodynamic modelling using advanced computational techniques.



