Dr. Christos Christodoulatos is the Director of the Center for Environmental Systems (CES) at Stevens Institute of Technology, a position he holds since 2002. From 2008 to 2016 he was Vice Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship with the mandate to modernize the technology transfer process and design educational and research programs that bring the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship into the classroom and the research laboratory. As Vice Provost he was responsible of leading the implementation of academic entrepreneurship through the creation of innovative curricula and overseeing the commercialization of the Institute’s intellectual property.  He has been teaching and performing research in environmental engineering since 1988 and serves as a consultant to government and private organizations.  He has developed and delivered entrepreneurship curricula and specialized innovation and entrepreneurship workshops for faculty, administration and technical entrepreneurs in the U.S.A, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. Dr. Christodoulatos has managed and executed over a hundred and fifty major research projects exceeding $45M. He is a founding member of two start-up companies for the commercialization of environmental technology.  He holds several patents in water and air treatment technology and has authored over 160 articles in professional journals, conference proceedings, and handbooks. He has chaired a number of international conferences on environmental technology, he is a member of several professional organizations and serves as a reviewer to several journals. Dr. Christodoulatos is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) since 2013.