Biography

Dr. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science and Executive Director of Global University Partnerships (US and Far East), as well as Executive Director of the Strathclyde Space Institute. He was Executive Dean (Engineering) and Associate Principal and at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow till June 2017. Prior to Strathclyde University, he was Head of Aerospace Sciences at Cranfield University and Professor of Fluid Mechanics & Computational Science (2003-2015); Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Queen Mary University of London (till 2003); and has also held academic positions at the University of Manchester; University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; and University of Marseille, France. 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), Biomedical, and Oil and Gas Applications. He has over 400 publications in journals and conference proceedings in the above research areas.

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Research Interest

Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Nanotechnology, Molecular Dynamics.