Dr. Dimitrios Gerogiorgis holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1999); he obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2003) and his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering (2004) from Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, PA, USA; he was advised by Professor Erik Ydstie under both Fulbright and Onassis Doctoral Fellowships. He then held a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial College, London, and subsequently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, where he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing. His research focuses on conceptual design, systematic optimization and control for ensuring Quality by Design in novel continuous pharmaceutical processes.