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PROFESSOR DIMOS POULIKAKOS

Professor Dimos Poulikakos holds the Chair of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich. He is also the Head of the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department at ETH Zurich His current research is in the area of interfacial and transport phenomena and energy, in emerging technologies and materials focusing on the physics at micro- and nanoscales. Specific examples of application areas are energy conversion and transport, energy efficient printed nanoelectronics and solar cells, chip/transistor level cooling for energy efficient high performance computing, and the science-based design of supericephobic surfaces.

Professor Poulikakos has supervised to completion over 50 Doctoral dissertations to date. He has published over 330 research articles in top peer reviewed ISI journals in areas such as heat transfer, fluid dynamics, energy, nanotechnology, materials, chemistry and chemical engineering, applied physics, bioengineering and biophysics as well as numerous articles in reviewed proceedings of professional conferences and a graduate level textbook on Conduction Heat Transfer (Prentice Hall, 1994).

Among the awards and recognitions he has received for his contributions are the White House/NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in 1986, the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award in 1986, the University of Illinois Scholar Award in 1986 and the Reviewer of the Year Award for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer in 1995. He is the recipient of the 2000 James Harry Potter Gold Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was a Russell S. Springer Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of California at Berkeley (2003) and the Hawkins Memorial Lecturer of Purdue University in 2004. He received the Heat Transfer Memorial Award for Science in 2003 from ASME. He is the recipient of the 2009 Nusselt-Reynolds Prize of the World Assembly of Heat Transfer and Thermodynamics. He is the 2012 recipient of the Max Jacob Award, for eminent scholarly achievement and distinguished leadership in the field of heat transfer. He was presented with the Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award of the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2012.

He received the Dr.h.c. of the National Technical University of Athens in 2006. In 2008 he was elected to the Swiss National Academy of Engineering (SATW), where since 2012 serves as president of the science board.

Professor Poulikakos has been a frequent keynote speaker in many conferences worldwide and is on the editorial board of many journals worldwide.