Michael C. Georgiadis is Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. He holds a PhD from Imperial College. His research areas encompass Energy Systems Engineering; Energy Planning and Scheduling; Energy Saving Techniques for the Process Industries; Supply Chain Network Design and Optimisation; Techniques for Project Scheduling; Advanced Process Control of Energy and Production Systems; Modelling , simulation and Dynamic Optimization of oil and gas processes; Computer-Aided Process Design and Synthesis; Design and scheduling of Batch and semi-continuous Processes, Production Planning. Emphasis on food, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical processes; Optimisation and Control of Drug delivery systems; and Modelling of Biological Systems.