Rafiqul Gani

Professor Rafiqul Gani joined the Department Of Chemical and Bio-chemical Engineering (DTU-Chemical Engineering), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1986 as an Assistant Professor. In 2000, he was appointed a full Professor in Systems Design at the same department and he's currently the head of the research centre Computer-Aided Process-Product Engineering Centre (CAPEC).

Professor Gani has published more than 150 peer reviewed journal articles, 4 edited books and has made more than 200 conference presentations as invited plenary, keynote, oral and/or poster presenter. He has also given invited lectures/seminars at numerous companies and academic institutions and has organized several workshops on topics related to CAPE/PSE. He is the 14th Professor Roger R W H Sargent Lecture on "Models, Modelling and Process Systems Engineering - What Next?", at CPSE, Imperial College, London (lecture given on 6 December 2007).

As of January 2012 Professor Gani holds the position of the Scientific Vice-President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE). He has been a member of the EFCE Executive Board since 2005 and a member and past chairman (2001–2007) of the EFCE Working Party on CAPE. In 2010 he was awarded the prestigious Recent Innovative Contribution in CAPE Award of the Working Party.

Education

Professor Gani graduated with his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, in 1975. During the period of 1976-1980, he studied at Imperial College in London, where he obtained his MSc, DIC and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering. His PhD thesis was entitled "Crude oil characterization and distillation dynamics", which was carried out under the supervision of Professor R.W.H. Sargent.

After completing his studies, Professor Gani then spent the period 1980-1985 at PLAPIQUI in Argentina as a senior researcher and during 1985-1986 as a visiting researcher at DTU-Chemical Engineering at DTU .

Research Interests

Professor Gani’s principal research interests are as follows:

  • The use of approaches for solving problems in process and product synthesis, design and analysis
  • The development of methods and tools for solving problems from the petrochemical, chemical, specialty chemical, agrochemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.

His research topics include the following:

  • Modelling (chemical processes and their operations, chemical products and their behaviour/properties)
  • Synthesis, design and analysis of chemical products and their processes (CAMD and CAFD)
  • Process integration (sustainable process design)
  • Tools integration

Current positions

Professor Gani currently holds the following positions:

  • Scientific Vice-President of the EFCE
  • Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Series Editor for Computer Aided Chemical Engineering book series of Elsevier Science B. V.
  • Member of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE)
  • Fellow of AIChE
  • Fellow of IChemE
  • Member (and past chairman) of EURECHA (European Committee for Use of Computers in Chemical Engineering Education)
  • Member (and past Chairman) of the PSE Executive Committee