Dr. Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and member of the energy and climatic change research group at ITESM. He received a B.Sc. degree from Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (1985) and PhD degree from Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (1994), both in Chemical Engineering. He has served as consultant for several polymer and pharmaceutical companies.

His research interests are in the areas of mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization and control of processing systems with emphasis in new alternative energies and polymerization systems. He is member of the Mexican National Research System (Level 2) and member of the Mexican Sciences Academy. He has graduated around 20 MSc and 5 PhD students and published around 90 papers in international research journal. He is currently member of the Editorial Board of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (a journal published by the American Chemical Society) and also co-Editor of the Latin-American Applied Research Journal.

Prof. Flores-Tlacuahuac has taken two sabbatical leaves at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Carnegie-Mellon University and three research summers at the Dynamic and Control group of the Technical University of Berlin. He has been visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and maintains active research collaborations with researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Waterloo (Canada), University of Bradford (UK) and Technical University of Berlin.

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

University Autonoma de Puebla Puebla Chemical Eng. B.S. 1985
Imperial College London, UK Chemical Eng. Ph.D. 1994

APPOINTMENTS

In 21 years of academic experience, Flores-Tlacuahuac has held the following positions:
-Member, Research Group in Energy and Climate Change, School of Engineering and Sciences, Alberto Mendoza, leader of the research group. 2016 to present.
-Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at ITESM. 2016 to present
-Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana.

1994-2015

-2 Sabbatical leaves at Carnegie-Mellon University. 2004 and 2011
-Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. 2011
-Visiting Professor at Technical University of Berlin. 2007, 2009, 2012
-Director, MSc program in Chemical Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana, 2013

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Darinel Valencia-Marquez, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac , Luis Ricardez-Sandoval, “A controllability analysis of a pilot-scale CO2 capture plant using ionic liquids", American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, 62(9) 3298-3309
• Israel Negrellos-Ortiz, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac, Miguel Angel Gutierrez- Limon, ``Product Dynamic Transitions Using A Derivative-Free Optimization Trust Region Approach", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 55, 8586-3042, 2016
• David Paul-Thierry, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac, Ignacio E. Grossmann, ``Simultaneous optimal design of multi-stage organic Rankine cycles and working fluid mixtures for low-temperature heat sources", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 89, 106-126, 2016
• Lopez-Cardenas, D.C., Wozny, G., Flores-Tlacuahuac, A., Vazquez-Medrano, R., and Zavala, V. M., `` A Computational Framework for Identifiability and Ill- Conditioning Analysis of Lithium-Ion Battery Models", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 55, 3026-3042, 2016
• Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac , Lorena Pedraza-Segura , ``Optimal Model-Based Aeration Control Policies in a Sequencing Batch Reactor", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 85(2),124-135,2016
• Miguel Angel Gutierrez-Lim\'on, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac , Ignacio E. Grossmann, `` A Reactive Optimization Strategy for the Simultaneous Planning, Scheduling and Control of Short-Period Continuous Reactors", Computers & Chemical Engineering, 84(4),507-515,2016,
• Oscar Palma-Flores, Antonio Flores-Tlacuahuac , Graciela Canseco-Melchor, ``Simultaneous molecular and process design for waste heat recovery", Energy, 99, 32-47, 2016