By Dr Dimitrios Gerogiorgis is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Materials and Processes (IMP) of the University of Edinburgh. Dimitrios was part of our 2015 cohort of Cruciblists.
He holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1999); obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2003) and his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering (2004) from Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, PA, USA, under both Fulbright and Onassis Doctoral Fellowships. He then held a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Imperial College, London, and subsequently joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing.
In 2015, Dimitrios was awarded the Academy of Athens Loukas Moussoulos Research Publication Excellence Prize, in recognition of his paper entitled “Model-based sensitivity analysis and experimental investigation of perlite grain expansion in a vertical electrical furnace” (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2013), a publication he co-authored while at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. The research focus is on multiscale modelling and simulation of simultaneous microscopic (grain swelling) and macroscopic (furnace operation) phenomena, to ensure process optimisation under uncertainty. The Loukas Moussoulos Prize is awarded to the best peer-reviewed publication authored by a Greek researcher in the field of metallurgical and mineral resources engineering during the previous two years. Dr Gerogiorgis was also recently honoured with a Royal Society of Edinburgh International Exchange grant (2016).
Research Interests
- Pharmaceutical Process Systems Engineering
- Oil & Gas and Energy Systems Modelling and Optimisation
- High-Temperature Materials Processing Optimisation
More information on Dimitrios can be found on his webpage at the University of Edinburgh.