Professor Karl Tapio Westerlund

Professor emeritus of Process Design and Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Mathematics with Engineering Applications at Åbo Akademi University as well as Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Turku. His research interests are in the field of process systems engineering with emphasis on developing mixed integer optimization methods for solving large scale optimization problems in science and engineering. Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Global Optimization (Springer) and Springer Nature Operations Research Forum. Founder of the interdisciplinary research group in Optimization and Systems Engineering at ÅAU, which was a Center of Excellence within Research at the University during 2010-2014.

Contact information

Åbo Akademi University, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Mathematics & Process Systems Engineering, FI-20500 Turku, Finland
Email: twesterl@abo.fi

University of Turku, Faculty of Science
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, FI-20500 Turku, Finland
Email: takawe@utu.fi