Dr. Vassily Hatzimanikatis is currently Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Vassily received a PhD and an MS in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the University of Patras, in Greece. After the completion of his doctoral studies, he held a research group leader position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. Prior to joining EPFL, Vassily worked for three years in DuPont, Cargill, and Cargill Dow, and he has been assistant professor at Northwestern University, at Illinois, USA. Vassily’s research interests are in the areas of computational systems biology, biotechnology, and complexity. He is associate editor of the journals Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Metabolic Engineering and Integrative Biology, and he serves on the editorial advisory board of the journals Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, and Industrial Biotechnology. He has written over 70 technical publications and he is co-inventor in three patents and patent applications. Vassily is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2010), he was a DuPont Young Professor (2001-2004), and he has also received the Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering (2000), and the ACS Elmar Gaden Award (2011). Education PhD | Chemical and Biological Engineering 1991 – 1997 California Institute of Technology Directed by Professor James E. Bailey Diploma (Master) | Chemical Engineering 1986 – 1991 University of Patras, Greece Directed by Professors Stavros Pavlou and Gerasimos Lyberatos
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Denis Alain Henri Lucien Joly, Luca Milazzo, David Liaskos, Konrad Lagoda, Omar Keshk, Yigit Sibal, Ioannis Tzegiannakis Past EPFL PhD Students Keng Cher Soh, Julien Racle, Noushin Hadadi, Stefano Andreozzi, Stepan Tymoshenko, Meriç Ataman, Joana Raquel Pinto Vieira, Tiziano Dallavilla, Yves Berset, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Milenko Tokic, Tuure Eelis Hameri, Jasmin Maria Hafner, Homa Mohammadi Peyhani, Daniel Robert Weilandt, Zhaleh Hosseini, Sofia Tsouka, Maria Masid Barcon, Laure Marie Colette Leynaud-Kieffer Curran, Robin Alexander Denhardt-Eriksson, Pierre Guy Rémy Salvy, Mohammadomid Oftadeh, Anastasia Sveshnikova, Bokyoung Kim, Asli Sahin, Evangelia Vayena, Subham Choudhury, Hugo André Denis Fleuriot - Blitman Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Andrijana Radivojevic, Muhittin Emre Özdemir, Olivier Vincent Sallin, Yann Pierson, Sylvie Hauert, Qiuliyang Yu, Nicolas Peter Goeldel, Helen Rebecca Ostlund Farrants, Nora Guidotti, Michelle Susanne Frei Courses Bioreactor modeling and simulation ChE-320 The course of Bioreactor modeling and simulation focuses on the principles of algorithmic design and analysis ofbiochemical reactors. The application of these designed reactors would be in the production line of the ofpharmaceutical, biotech and chemical industries. Introduction to chemical engineering ChE-201 Introduction to Chemical Engineering is an introductory course that provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field. It addresses the formulation and solution of material and energy balances by using the physical/chemical properties of materials. Principles and applications of systems biology ChE-411 The course introduces and develops the key concepts from systems biology and systems engineering in the context of complex biological networks. The lectures elaborate on techniques and methods to model and analyze complex biological problems.
