Dr. Stelios Rigopoulos

Biography

Stelios Rigopoulos holds an MEng in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1997), an MSc in Environmental Technology from UMIST (1999), and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from University College London (2003). After completing his postdoctoral research at Imperial College London, he joined the University of Manchester in 2005 and returned to Imperial College London in 2010, where he currently serves as a Reader in Thermofluids. He was awarded the Royal Society University Research Fellowship and is conducting research on 'Nanoparticle Dynamics in Turbulent Reactive Flows.' He was a recipient of the 2007 Hinshelwood Prize. His research interests encompass advanced theoretical computational methods, population balance, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and molecular modeling. Applications of his work include solving environmental engineering challenges related to fluid dynamics, aerosols, and nanoparticles toward achieving net zero energy generation. He has developed CPMOD, an open-source code for formulating and solving population balance problems in aerosol dynamics and nanoparticle synthesis. Furthermore, Stelios authored the monograph 'Population Balance of Particles in Flows: Aerosols and Crystallisation' published by Cambridge University Press.

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