Education:
1982: PhD in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX,
USA
1979: Diploma in Chemical Engineering, NTU, Athens, Greece
Previous Employment/Occupation:
1992- : Professor of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester,
NY, USA
1998- : Professor of Materials Science, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester,
NY, USA
1993: Visiting Professor, Univ. of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1987-1992: Associate Professor, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
1982-1987: Assistant Professor, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
1979-1982: Research Assistant, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Summer 1977: Assistant Engineer, Royal Dutch Shell, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Research Activities:
Reaction and process engineering in advanced materials processing.
Preparation methods of nanomaterials (e.g., nanocomposite films, nanoparticles,
and carbon nanotubes). Chemical vapor deposition. Process design, modeling,
and simulation of transport and reaction systems. Physical and chemical
phenomena in porous media and nanostructured materials. Optimisation
and design of porous media-based separation systems. Process engineering
of energy conversion and pollution control systems. Applied mathematics
in transport processes and reaction engineering
Participation in Research Projects:
Has directed and is currently directing several projects funded by
various competitive funding sources, such as the US National Science
Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and programs of the European
Commission and of the General Secretariat of Research and Technology
of Greece
Publications:
90 refereed journal papers. 17 papers in refereed conference proceedings
Conference Participation/Attendance:
Over 120 presentations in international conferences. Over 40 invited
lectures
Teaching Activities:
Reaction engineering and reactor design. Applied mathematics and numerical
analysis. Process control and dynamics. Transport and reaction in porous
media
Professional Affiliations:
American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Materials Research Society.
American Ceramic Society. Electrochemical Society. The Combustion Institute.
Sigma Xi. Technical Chamber of Greece.
Prizes/Honours:
Scholarship from the Vostanis Foundation, Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece
(1974-1979). Scholarship from the National Foundation of Scholarships,
Athens, Greece (1974, 1975, 1977-1979). Award from the Greek Workers
Home, Athens, Greece (1979). 1996 Norman Hackerman Young Author Award
in Solid State Science and Technology to graduate student George Papasouliotis
for a joint paper published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society
(1995). Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award of the Corrosion Division
of the Electrochemical Society to student Stephanos Nitodas for his
Ph.D. research on mullite-alumina coatings (2001). NATO-ASI Lecturer,
Kusadasi, Turkey (July 1996). Cahn Thermal Analysis Award, Cahn, Inc.
(1996). National representative of Greece to the Steering Group of the
Science for Peace Program of NATO (2000- ).
Selected Publications:
- Sotirchos S. V., Nitodas S. F., "Effects of Residence Time
and Reaction Conditions Chemical Vapor Deposition of Aluminosilicates
from Mixtures of SiCl4, AlCl3, CO2, and H2", Chem. Vap. Dep.,
7, 157 (2001).
- Kostjuhin I. M., Sotirchos S. V., "Chemical Vapor Codeposition
of SiC and C from Mixtures of Methyltrichlorosilane and Ethylene in
Hydrogen," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 40, 2586 (2001).
- Serbezov, A., Sotirchos, S.V., "On the Formulation of Linear
Driving Force (LDF) Approximations for Adsorption and Desorption of
Multicomponent Gaseous Mixtures in Sorbent Particles," Sep. Purif.
Technol., 24, 343 (2001).
- Sotirchos S. V., Nitodas S. F., "Factors Influencing the Deposition
of Mullite from Mixtures of Metal Chlorides in CO2 and H2," J.
Cryst. Growth, 234, 569 (2002).
- Nitodas S. F., Sotirchos S. V., "Development and Validation
of a Mathematical Model for the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Alumina
from Mixtures of AlCl3, CO2, and H2," J. Electrochem. Soc., 149,
C130-C141 (2002).
- Kostjuhin I. M., Sotirchos S. V., "Multiplicity of Steady States
in the Codeposition of SiC and C from Mixtures of Methyltrichlorosilane
and Ethylene in Hydrogen," AIChE J., 48, 2910-2920 (2002).
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