Biography:

Fouad Teymour is a Johnson Polymer Professor,
Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics,
and co-Director of undergraduate initiatives and enrichment programs in Armour College of Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Fouad Teymour is Johnson Polymer Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics (CCSD) at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. He holds a Ph. D in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and MS and B.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Cairo University. Teymour is a nationally and internationally recognized research leader whose contributions have been presented in a number of invited lectures and presentations. His research is concentrated in three major areas:
a) Polymers and Polymer Reaction Engineering,
b) Complexity Theory, Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, and
c) Renewable Energy Technologies.

He has received multiple awards in recognition of his excellence in teaching and education, most recently the 2011 University Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the author of over fifty refereed publications and has supervised the thesis research of 12 Doctoral students and a number of masters students. He is the inventor for five issued US patents, and has a number of pending patent applications under review. Prior to joining IIT in 1993, Professor Teymour has served as a post-doctoral researcher at Johnson Polymer Inc., in Racine, Wisconsin and as Assistant Professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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