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Julio Mario Ottino is an American chemical engineer. He is the dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University where he holds the titles of Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

Early life and education
Born in Argentina, Ottino earned his Chemical Engineering Diploma from the National University of La Plata in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1979.

Career
After graduating, he started as Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1986, Ottino was the Chevron Visiting Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. In 1990, he served as the Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. In 1991, he became Professor of Chemical at Northwestern University and went on to become the Chairman of the Department in 1992 and remained in that role until 2000. Ottino founded the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems in 2004 and co-directed it until 2005. Ottino became the Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2005. As Dean, he launched the Segal Design Institute in 2007 and the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 2008. He was instrumental in the creation of the Initiative in Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern in 2008.