Costas Pantelides is the Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Process Automation Software and also a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He has extensive experience in the area of digitalization for the process industries and its application to process design and operation. His contributions to Process Systems Engineering have been recognized by the 2007 MacRobert Award of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, the 2016 Sargent Medal of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers, the 2019 Computing Practice Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and an honorary PhD from the Technical University of Dortmund. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an international member of the USA National Academy of Engineering.