Lorenz Biegler

Covestro University Professor of Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

  • Covestro University Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Chemical Engineering
  • 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States

BIO

Lorenz T. (Larry) Biegler is currently the Covestro University Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, which he joined after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1981.

Biegler has been an institute fellow at the National Energy Technology Lab, a visiting scholar at Northwestern University and Lehigh University, a scientist-in-residence at Argonne and Sandia National Labs, a distinguished faculty visitor at the University of Alberta, a Chang Jiang scholar at Zhejiang University, a Gambrinus Fellow at the University of Dortmund, a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, a Distinguished Jubilee Lecturer at IIT-Bombay, the Hougen Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, and the Onsager Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. An author on more than 600 archival publications and two books, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and holds an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin. 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Covestro University Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 2018 - present
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Head
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2018
  • University Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 2011 - present
  • Center for Applied Process Decision-making (CAPD), Director
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 1999 - 1 Jan 2005
  • Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 1996 - 1 Jan 2018
  • Engineering Design Research Center (EDRC), Synthesis Lab Director
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 1994 - 1 Jan 1997
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jan 1981 - 31 Dec 1990
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor
    Tsinghua University, Department of Chemical Engineering, Beijing, China1 Jan 2019 - present
  • Visiting Professor
    Zhejiang University, School of Information Science and Engineering, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Qiushi, China1 Jan 2014 - present
  • Chang Jiang Professor (Yangtze Scholar)
    Zhejiang University, School of Information Science and Engineering,, Department of Control Science and Engineering, China1 Jan 2009 - 1 Jan 2013
  • Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professor
    University of Wisconsin, United States1 Aug 2009 - present
  • Resident Institute Fellow
    National Energy Technology Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Energy Solutions, United States1 Jan 2007 - present
  • Visiting Professor
    Universit ̈at Heidelberg, Institute of Scientific Computing (IWR), United States1 Jan 2006 - 31 Dec 2006
  • Visiting Professor
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland1 Jan 2002 - 31 Dec 2002

DEGREES

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, United States1977
  • M.S., Chemical Engineering
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States1979
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States1981

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 15 Life on Land

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