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Chris Dames is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006, and both his B.S. and M.S. from UC Berkeley in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to his appointment at UC Berkeley in 2011, he was a faculty member at UC Riverside from 2006 to 2011, and worked as a research engineer at Solo Energy Corp. from 1998 to 1999. His research interests emphasize fundamental studies of heat transfer, energy conversion, and nanoscale phenomena, utilizing both theoretical and experimental methods. Current topics of interest include graphene, nanocrystalline materials, mean free path distributions, thermoelectrics, and highly anisotropic nonlinear transport mechanisms, such as thermal rectification. His research has been recognized with the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2009 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2011.
University of California, Riverside • Riverside, CA
Taught courses and conducted research in Mechanical Engineering.
Solo Energy Corp. •
Worked on energy systems at the nanoscale.
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