Jose Ricardo Pérez Correa

Ricardo Pérez-Correa received the BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering in 1982 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Chile. In 1987 he was awarded the Diploma of the Imperial College and a PhD degree from the University of London, both in Chemical Engineering. That year he joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Chile as an Assistant Professor. In 1991, Ricardo Pérez-Correa took an appointment as Assistant Professor at the Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering Department of the Catholic University of Chile. Then he was appointed Associate Professor in 2000 and Full Professor in 2011. Professor Pérez-Correa has been involved in the application of modelling, control and optimization to several chemical processes and bioprocess, such as spray and rotary drying, flotation, distillation, solvent extraction, and solid substrate and submerged fermentations. He held visiting positions at Imperial College (1989) in London, Carnegie Mellon University (2001-2002) in Pittsburgh (USA) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2009) in Tarragona (Spain). He is a member of the Directory Board of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ACCA), IFAC Chilean section. Professor Pérez-Correa has published over 60 ISI papers and 30 book chapters. He has supervised 2 postdoc researchers, 5 PhD students and 17 MSc students.