Sotiris Pratsinis Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich - ETH Zurich Professor of Process Engineering

Sotiris E. Pratsinis, Professor of Process Engineering, was born on March 21, 1955 in Chanea, Krete, Greece. After receiving his Diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1977 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, he served the Greek Navy until 1980 when he joined the University of California, Los Angeles and earned his M.S. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1985. That year he was appointed in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio where he was promoted to full professor in 1994 and served as Interim Head of Chemical Engineering in 1998. That year he was elected Professor of Process Engineering at ETH Zurich where he founded the Particle Technology Laboratory and teaches Mass Transfer, Particle Technology, Nanoscale Engineering and Combustion Synthesis of Materials. He has taught also at the NSF-ERC on Particle Technology of Univ. Florida, Univ. of New Mexico (USA), Univ. of Queensland (Australia), TU Delft (Netherlands), TU Karlsruhe (Germany), Univ. of Hiroshima (Japan) and Chulalongkorn Univ. (Thailand). Prof. Pratsinis' current research focuses on particle science and engineering with emphasis on flame synthesis of metal and ceramic nanoparticles, catalysis, dental materials and simulators for aerosol reactors. His results are documented in over 200 refereed articles in scientific journals and book chapters while he has received two European and four U.S. patents licensed to Dow Chemical, Degussa and Hosokawa-Micron. Prof. Pratsinis has graduated 14 Ph.D. students and he is currently advising seven. His program has been funded by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation as well as by DuPont, Nestle, Toyota, Ivoclar-Vivadent and others. His research has been recognized by the 1988 Kenneth T. Whitby Award of the American Association of Aerosol Research, the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the 1995 Marian Smoluchowski Award of the European Association for Aerosol Research and the 2003 Thomas Baron Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is an Editor of the journal Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, Regional Editor for Europe of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research and on the Editorial Boards of KONA Powder and Particle, Powder Technology, Journal of Aerosol Science and Advanced Powder Technology. Prof. Pratsinis is also on the Advisory Board of the Australian Research Council Centre on Functional Nanomaterials.

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