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Nikolaos K. Kazantzis

Associate Professor

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Office: Goddard Hall, 224B
Phone: +1-508-831-5666
Fax: +1-508-831-5853
nikolas@wpi.edu

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 1997

Research & Teaching Interests

Analysis; sustainable design and control of chemical processes, environmental and energy systems; Process safety and chemical risk analysis; Process performance monitoring and industrial risks; Adsorption studies in environmental systems; Environmental technologies and policy; Regulation and management of chemicals; Regulatory uses of molecular modeling techniques

IQP Advising Interests

Environmental and energy policy; Regulation of chemicals; Environmental health; System dynamics and complexity.

Recent Publications

M. E. Ayturk, N. Kazantzis and Y. H. Ma, 2009, " Modeling and Performance Assessment of Pd- and Pd/Au-based Catalytic Membrane Reactors for Hydrogen Production ", Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 2, pp. 430-438
N. Kazantzis, 2009, " Map Invariance and the State Reconstruction Problem for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems ", European Journal of Control, vol. 15, pp. 105-119
M. Xiao, N. Kazantzis and C. Kravaris, 2008, " On the Nonlinear Discrete-Time Observer Design Problem ", International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, vol. 4, pp. 3-11
R.R. Kotdawala, N. Kazantzis and R. W. Thompson, 2008, "Molecular simulation studies of adsorption of hydrogen cyanide and methyl ethyl ketone on zeolite NaX and activated carbon", Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 159, pp. 169-176
A. Lewis, N. Kazantzis, I. Fishtik and J. Wilcox, 2007, "Integrating Process Safety and Molecular Modeling - Based Risk Assessment of Chemicals Within the REACH Regulatory Framework: Benefits and Future Challenges ", Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 142, pp. 592-602.

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Honors & Awards

National Science Foundation Career Award (2001/2002)

Professional Experience & Activities

Working Group on Chemical Accidents, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, Member.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters
Associate Editor, European Journal of Control
Technical Committee: Nonlinear Control Systems, International
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Member
IEEE-Control Systems Society, Conference Editorial Board, Member
Technical Advisory Committee Member, MKOC Process Safety Center, Texas
A&M University, College Station, Texas.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM), Bonn, Germany, Expert.
2007 Belgrade Report: Environment for Europe, Hazardous Chemicals,
European Environment Agency, United Nations Economic Commission for
Europe (UNECE), Contributor.
16th and 17th Sessions of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development (CSD 16, CSD 17), May 2008,2009, UN Headquarters, New York.

Professional Societies/Memberships

Water Research Center, Bioengineering Institute, WPI
Environmental Engineering Program, WPI
Safer World Action Network (NTI)
International Panel on Chemical Pollution
Cambridge Union Society
Fuel Cell Center, WPI

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