Dimos Poulikakos

Professor Dimos Poulikakos holds the Chair of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich, where in he founded the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies. He served as the Vice President of Research of ETH Zurich in the period 2005-2007. Professor Poulikakos was the ETH director of the IBM-ETH Binnig-Rohrer Nanotechnology center, a unique private-public partnership in nanotechnology at the interface of basic research and future oriented applications (2008-2011). He served as the Head of the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department at ETH Zurich (2011-2014). He is currently the Chairperson of the Energy Science Center of ETH Zurich and a member of CORE, the advisory board of the Swiss government on issues related to energy. He also serves as the president of Division IV the of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and is a member of the presiding board of SNF.