Prior to joining University of Calgary in 2013, she was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department at the University of Minnesota. She obtained her Masters and PhD degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. She has served on organizing committees for provincial and national level chemical engineering conferences. Research interests of Milana Trifkovic are in the areas of mixed-integer and logic-based optimization, stochastic programming, process synthesis and material design for energy systems applications. Her research efforts have resulted in numerous journal publications, conference presentations and a patent.