SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Professor Sotiris E. Pratsinis (Diploma, Chem. Eng, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki, 1977; M.Sc. 1982
& Ph.D. Engineering, UCLA 1985) was born on March 21, 1955 in Chanea,
Krete, Greece. He was in the faculty (1985-2000) of
Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati until he was elected
Professor of Mechanical and Process Engineering (1998) and Adjunct Professor of
Materials Science (2003) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH
Zurich). There he founded the Particle Technology Laboratory and teaches Mass
Transfer, Micro-&Nano-Particle Technology, Introduction to Nanoscale
Engineering and Combustion Synthesis of Materials.
His
research program on particle dynamics focuses on the fundamentals of aerosols
with applications in materials synthesis for catalysis, gas sensors and biomaterials. He has
published over 300 refereed journal articles with his students, received about
a dozen European and U.S. patents licensed to various industries and
contributed to creation of four spinoffs. He has been recognized
by the 1988 Kenneth T. Whitby Award of
the American Association of Aerosol Research, the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the U.S. National
Science Foundation, the 1995 Marian Smoluchowski Award of the
European Association for Aerosol Research and the 2003 Thomas Baron Award
of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 2009 he won an Advanced Investigator Grant from the
European Research Council, in 2011 he received the senior Humboldt Research Award from Germany and in 2012 he was elected in
the Swiss Academy of Engineering.
In 2005-06 he was appointed Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professor at the Mechanical Engineering
Department of the University of California, Berkeley and since 2010 he is
Visiting Professor the Harvard School of Public Health and a CENIDE Guest Professor
at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. In 1993 he was visiting professor
at TU Delft, Netherlands and Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany. He
is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Particle and
Particle Systems Characterization, KONA Powder and Particle, Powder
Technology, Advanced Powder Technology, Current
Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Journal
of Aerosol Science, Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry, Research and AIChE
Journal.
