Dimitris Drikakis
University of Strathclyde, UK
Biography
Dimitris Drikakis is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Prior to his current position he has held academic as well as academic management posts at Cranfield University, Queen Mary University of London, University of Manchester, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and University of Marseille, France. His expertise is in fluid mechanics, fluid/material interface, shock physics, and nanotechnology. He has received twice (2008 and 2011) the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK’s Atomic Establishment Plc. in recognition of his contributions to shock waves and turbulence, and also received the 2014 Innovator of the Year Award by the Innovation Institute for gas filtration using carbon nanotubes. He has co-authored two books in the field of computational fluid dynamics and has published about 380 journal and conference papers in the above technical areas.
Abstract
Abstract : Increasing chemotherapy efficiency via shock waves