Organizing Committee Member
Dimitris Drikakis
Executive Director, Global University Partnerships
University of Starthclyde
United Kingdom
Biography
Prof. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science, and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships at the University of Starthclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prior to his present positions, he was the Executive Dean (Engineering) and Associate Principal and at the University of Strathclyde, (2015-2017) and Head of Aerospace Sciences and Professor of Fluid Mechanics & Computational Science at Cranfield University (2003-2015). His expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces. He has also worked on the topic of the Effects of Shock Waves on Drug Delivery through Biological Membranes. He has received the William Penney Fellowship Award by AWE Plc in recognition of his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics and the Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the Innovation Institute for a new generation gas filtration nano-technology. To date, he has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 400 papers/book chapters in the above technical areas
Research Area
His expertise is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces. He has been active in both fundamental and applied research across Engineering and Applied Physics, including Aerospace, Mechanical, Nuclear (Defence and Fusion), and Oil and Gas Applications. His work has directly influenced areas as diverse as improved understanding of complex aerodynamic and gas dynamic flows, turbulent mixing in inertial confinement fusion, and novel gas filtration nanotechnologies using carbon nanotubes.