Dr. Vasilis N Burganos

Dr. Vasilis N. Burganos is the research director at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and High-Temperature Chemical Processes, one of the seven institutes that comprise the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas. He received his diploma in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, USA. From 1983 to 1988, he was a research and teaching assistant at the University of Rochester. From 1988 to 1995, he worked as a research associate at the FORTH/ICE-HT, Greece. From 1995 to 1999, he served as principal researcher at the same affiliation. His research activities are focused on the general areas of transport phenomena and porous materials, with emphasis on diffusion and sorption, separation processes, semiconductive sensors, single and multiphase flow in porous media, capillarity, and pore structural analysis. He has also developed computer-aided simulators of jet breakup and atomization for the preparation of microelectronic circuits and of land contamination by organic mixtures for risk assessment. He has coordinated research in several research and development (R&D) projects, funded by the European Commission, the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, and the industry.