Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Costas P. Grigoropoulos received his Diploma Degrees in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (1978), and in Mechanical Engineering (1980) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He holds a M.Sc. degree (1983), and a Ph.D. (1986), both in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University. He joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley as an Assistant Professor in 1990, after serving as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington from 1986-1990. He was promoted to Associate Professor in July 1993 and to Professor in Mechanical Engineering in July 1997. He has conducted research at the Xerox Mechanical Engineering Sciences Laboratory, the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH, Greece. His current research interests are in micro/nano engineering, laser materials processing and micro/nano-machining, non-contact diagnostics in fast processes, change of phase transformations in semiconductors and electronic materials, laser-driven thin film crystal growth for applications in microelectronic devices, laser-induced nanodeposition, microscale fuel cells, thermal management in micro-devices and transport diagnostics in MEMS devices. He has taught courses in heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, laboratory instrumentation and experimentation, laser processing and diagnostics at both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. He was a Miller Professor for basic research in science in 1999 and a visiting Professor at ETH in Zurich in 2000. He is a Fellow of ASME, a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, Associate Editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Associate Editor for the Journal of Heat Transfer.

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