Professional Service | Ruth Misener

10c Programming Coordinator, AIChE Computing & Systems Technology Division (2019 – 2021)
- I coordinated CAST 10C (Systems & Process Operations) for 2021. For 2019 – 2020, I assisted the programming coordinator.
Director, AIChE Computing & Systems Techn ology Division (2016 – 2018)
Management Committee Member, EU COST Action TD1207, Mathematical Optimisation in the Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks (2016 – 2017)

Program Committee, Integer Programming & Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO 2019)
Co-chair of the Software for Optimization stream, 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019)
International Subcommittee Chair, Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design (FOCAPD 2019)
Program Committee, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2018)
- With G. Nannicini (chair), P. Christophel, S. Kucukyavuz, A. Toriello
International Program Committee, Process Systems Engineering (PSE-2018), San Diego, California (1 – 5 July 2018)
- Co-chair of the Optimization Methods & Computational Tools theme
Scientific Committee for the European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering
- ESCAPE 28 Graz, Austria (10 – 13 June 2018)
- ESCAPE 27 Barcelona, Spain (1 – 5 October 2017)
- ESCAPE 26 Maribor, Slovenia (12 – 15 June 2016)
Program Committee for the EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization
- 17th EUROPT Glasgow, Scotland (28-29 June 2019)
- 16th EUROPT Almería, Spain (12-13 July 2018)
- 15th EUROPT Montréal, Canada (12-14 July 2017)
Program Committee for the Conference on Computational Management Science (30 May – 01 June 2017)
Program Committee for the INFORMS Optimisation Society Conference (17 – 19 March 2016)

Dr Amélie Lambert (École doctorale Sciences des Métiers de l’Ingénieur), Président du jury, Exact solutions of polynomial programs through quadratic convex reformulations
Dr Claudia D’Ambrosio (Université Paris 13), Rapporteur, Solving well-structured MINLP problems

Dr Mohammad Mehrian (Université de Liège), External PhD Examiner, Development & optimization of in silico models of 2D cell expansion & 3D neotissue formation in the context of tissue engineering therapy design and translation 01/2019
Dr Jan Kronqvist (Åbo Akademi University), External PhD Examiner, Polyhedral Outer Approximations in Convex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming, 09/2018
Dr Ahmadreza Marandi (University of Tilburg), External PhD Examiner, Aspects of Quadratic Optimization: Nonconvexity, Uncertainty, and Applications, 12/2017
Dr Fabian Rigterink (University of Newcastle), External PhD Examiner, Pooling Problems: Advances in Theory and Applications, 05/2017
Dr Carlos Perez Galvan (UCL), External PhD Examiner, Global optimisation for dynamic systems using novel overestimation reduction techniques, 02/2017

Member, EPSRC Peer Review College (Associate Member, 2017-2018; Full Member 2018-)
Reviewer, ADCHEM • AIChE Journal • Chemical Engineering Research & Design • Computational Optimization & Applications • Computers & Chemical Engineering (Top Reviewer, 2013; Top 10% in Number of Reviews Completed, 2014 – 2015 & 2016 – 2017) • Computers & Operations Research • European Journal of Operational Research • Fuel • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research • International Conference on Machine Learning • Journal of Global Optimization • Journal of Optimization Theory & Applications • Management Science • Mathematical Programming • Operations Research • Operations Research Letters • Optimization Letters • SIAM Journal on Optimization

Session Co-Chair, CAST Director’s Student Presentation Award Finalists, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 2018
Session Co-Chair, Advances in Optimization Under Uncertainty, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 2018
Session Chair, Optimization Methods & Computational Tools 1, PSE 2018, July 2018
Session Co-Chair, ESCAPE-28, June 2018
Session Co-Chair, Advances in Optimization I, AIChE Annual Meeting, October 2017
Session Chair, In Memory of Christodoulos A. Floudas I, II, & III, EUROPT 2017, July 2017
Session Co-Chair, Enabling Technologies I & II, FOCAPO, January 2017
Session Co-Chair, Software Tools and Implementations for Process Systems Engineering, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2016
Session Co-Chair, Process Design II, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2016
Session Chair, Advances in Deterministic Global Optimization, ICCOPT, August 2016
Session Chair, Modelling, Numerical analysis, Simulation and Optimization, ESCAPE-26, June 2016
Session Co-Chair, Software Tools and Implementations for Process Systems Engineering, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2015
Invited Session Chair, Advances in Global Optimisation, ISMP 2015, July 2015
Session Co-Chair, Modelling & Simulation, PSE-2015/ESCAPE-25, June 2015
Session Co-Chair, Supply Chain Optimization and Planning and Scheduling II, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 2014
Invited Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2014
Poster Session Co-Chair, Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Design, July 2014

Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas (article written in memory of my PhD advisor, SIAG/OPT Views and News, 24(1): 12 – 16, 2016)
Making and Healing Blood: An Engineer’s Approach (poster created for the 2013 RAEng Annual Research Forum)