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SUMMARY:MechE Seminar: Learn from the past\, prepare for the future: Towar
 ds cost-effective\, sustainable\, and resilient supply chains
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Miriam Sarkis\, Texas A&M Energy Institute\, Texas A&M 
 University\nAbstract: Resilience and sustainability are becoming growing 
 priorities across industrial sectors. As disruptions become the new normal
  in manufacturing supply chains and energy systems\, there emerges a need 
 to develop proactive and reactive strategies to manage future uncertaintie
 s that impact service continuity and lead to economic losses and environme
 ntal damage. In this space\, process systems engineering opens opportuniti
 es to elucidate critical trade-offs between cost\, sustainability and resi
 lience-enhancing solutions\, thus supporting more informed\, fact-based de
 cision-making. In this lecture\, case studies from the pharmaceutical manu
 facturing industry are illustrated\, with a focus on emerging challenges r
 elated to the market boom of next-generation therapeutics\, pandemic prepa
 redness and pressures to improve sustainability. To this end\, computer-ai
 ded modelling and optimization tools are presented\, integrating techno-ec
 onomic analysis\, life cycle assessment\, and uncertainty quantification\,
  to generate candidate system designs and quantify metrics such as scalabi
 lity\, reliability\, cost\, and footprint.\n\nBiography: Dr. Miriam Sarki
 s is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Texas A&M Energy Institute\, working
  on computer-aided modelling and optimization tools for resilient energy s
 ystems supply chains. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2024
  from Imperial College London\, at the Sargent Centre for Process Systems 
 Engineering\, where she worked on pharmaceutical supply chain optimization
  to support resilient and sustainable planning for next-generation vaccine
 s and therapeutics. Miriam is the recipient of the 2024 Dudley Newitt Priz
 e for Theoretical/Computational Excellence and Presentation for her PhD th
 esis\, awarded to a thesis of exceptional merit by the Department of Chemi
 cal Engineering at Imperial College London. Her scientific contributions t
 o date have been recognized through 14 journal and peer-reviewed conferenc
 e publications. Since 2024\, Miriam has been serving as reviewer and sessi
 on chair at the Annual Meeting of the Americal Institute of Chemical Engin
 eers (AIChE) within the Computing and Systems Division.
LOCATION:BM 5202 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/61360740951
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