Mark Stadtherr is Research Professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of Texas at Austin and Keating-Crawford Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Univ. of Notre Dame. Previously, he was on the chemical engineering faculty at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary teaching interests are process safety, process design, ecological and environmental modeling, and optimization.
Mark has published more than 180 peer-reviewed research papers in the areas of optimization and modeling, and was recognized with the AIChE CAST Div.’s Computing in Chemical Engineering Award (1998) for his pioneering work on applying advanced computer architectures in chemical engineering computing.
As an educator at Notre Dame, he received the 2008 James A. Burns Award, which recognizes exemplary contributions to graduate education at the University. Mark has a PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin and a BChE from the Univ. of Minnesota.