DOROS NICOLAS THEODOROU
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, Zografou Campus
GR-157 80 Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 772 3157, Fax +30 210 772 3112
E-mail doros@central.ntua.gr
Research Computer modeling of matter. Application of statistical mechanics, thermodynamics,
Interests and transport phenomena for the elucidation of structure-processing-property relations in materials.
Polymer science and engineering. Separation and catalytic properties of zeolites.
Personal Born 29 October, 1957 in Athens, Greece.
Data Married, one child
Education Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1982, Chem. Engineering.
Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983, Chem. Engineering.
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Chemical Engineering.
Employment
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
1981‑1985 Research Assistant, Chemical Engineering Department.
Spring 1985 Teaching Assistant, graduate thermodynamics, Chemical Engineering Department.
Hellenic Naval Academy Piraeus, Greece
1985-1986 Instructor in computer programming and computer center administrator (mil. service).
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
1986-1990 Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering.
1990-1994 Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering.
1994-1995 Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, CA, USA
1986-1995 Associated Faculty, Polymers Program, Center for Advanced Materials, Division of
Materials Sciences. Project Leader, Polymer/Substrate Interactions.
University of Patras Patras, Greece
1991-1994 Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering.
1994-2002 Professor of Chemical Engineering.
National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece
2002- Professor of Chemical Engineering.
Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature
Chemical Processes (ICE/HT-FORTH) Patras, Greece
1991-2007 Adjunct Senior Researcher.
National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" Athens, Greece
Spring 1992 Visiting Professor, Physical Chemistry Institute.
1993- Collaborating Researcher
1993-2005 Director, Molecular Modeling of Materials Laboratory.
Classes Taught at U.C. Berkeley
undergraduate Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (with J.M. Prausnitz), Transport Processes (Heat and Mass),
Polymer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering Laboratory.
graduate Thermodynamics for Chemical Product and Process Design (with J.M. Prausnitz).
Applied Molecular Theory for Chemical Engineers (with Arup K. Chakraborty).
Classes Taught at the University of Patras
undergraduate Mass and Energy Balances, Physical Chemistry II, Chemical Thermodynamics
I and II, Advanced Thermodynamics.
graduate Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Molecular Simulation.
Physical Chemistry of Polymers, Statistical Mechanics of Polymers (with A. Dondos,
D. Photinos, M. Kosmas, A. Terzis)
Classes Taught at the National Technical University of Athens
undergraduate Physical Chemistry II, Structure-Property Relations in Materials, Connecting
Microscopic and Macroscopic Properties by Computer
graduate Molecular Simulations of Materials
Classes Taught at NCSR "Demokritos"
graduate Topics in Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Molecular Systems and
Applications to the Molecular Simulation of Materials Using Supercomputers.
Molecular Simulations of Physicochemical Systems (with A.Z. Panagiotopoulos).
Polymer Physics and Physical Chemistry (with I. Economou, C. Tsenoglou,
N. Hadjichristidis and J. Petropoulos)
Honors
Salutatorian, Summa cum Laude, Ancient Greek Prize, Dolashik Prize, Athens College, 1976.
Entrance examination award, National Technical University of Athens, 1976.
Condoulis and Thomaides awards, National Technical University of Athens, 1978-1981.
17 November 1973 prize, Technical Chamber of Greece, 1977-1981.
Chrysovergis prize, National Technical University of Athens, 1982.
Gilliland Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., 1981‑1982.
Scholarship of the Bodossakis Foundation, 1981-1984.
Shell Faculty Career Initiation Grant, U.S.A., 1986‑1988.
Du Pont Young Faculty Grant, U.S.A., 1989-1991.
Presidential Young Investigator Award, U.S. National Science Foundation, 1988-1992.
Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A., October 1992.
Ernest W. Thiele Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., September 1993.
Robert W. Vaughan Lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A., March 1994.
Science Award of the Bodossakis Foundation in Chemistry, 1996.
Invitation to the international conference Scientia Europaea, organized by the Institut de France and the Fondation Rhône-Poulenc, September 1998.
Danckwerts Lecture, awarded by the AIChE, IChemE, EFCE, and the Editors of Chemical Engineering Science, AIChΕ Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., November 2006.
Dick Medema Award in Polymer Science and Technology, awarded by the Dutch PTN (Polymer Technology in the Netherlands), Lunteren, The Netherlands, February 2009.
Included in Who’s Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Men and Women of Science, Men of Achievement, European Biographical Directory.
Professional Activities
National Representative of Greece to the HRM (Human Resources and Mobility) Program Committee, Directorate General XII of the European Commission, 2003-2004.
National Representative of Greece to the IHP (Improving Human Potential) Program Committee, Directorate General XII of the European Commission, 2000-2002.
National Representative of Greece to the TMR (Training and Mobility of Researchers) Program Committee, Directorate General XII of the European Commission, 1995-1998.
Member of the National Council of Research and Technology of Greece, Sector of Physics, Chemistry, and Materials, 2003-2004.
Visiting Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. (Program on Quantitative Methods in Materials Research), April-May 1997.
Editorial Committee Member, Annual Review in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2008-
Editorial Board, Molecular Physics, 2006-
Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules, 2005-2007
Editorial Board, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2004-
Editorial Board, Soft Materials, 2002-2009
International Advisory Board, Chemical Engineering Science, 2000-
Editorial Board, Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science, 1996-2002
Editorial Board, Molecular Simulation, 1994-2001
Editorial Board, Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, 1993-
Editorial Board, Die Makromolekulare Chemie: Theory and Simulation, 1992-1995
Co-editor, Diffusion in Micropores, special issue of the journal Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, honouring Prof. Dr. Jörg Kärger, 2009.
Editor, Symposium in Print on Molecular Modeling, published by Chemical Engineering Science, 1994.
Scientific Advisor, School and Conference on Multiscale Modelling and Simulations of Hard and Soft Materials, Bangalore, India, December 2009.
Co-chairman, Diffusion Fundamentals III conference, Athens, Greece, August 23-26, 2009.
Co-organizer, Faraday Discussion 144, “Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter”, Groningen, The Netherlands, July 20-22, 2009.
Chairman of the International Organizing Committee, Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design (PPEPPD 2007), Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, May 20-25, 2007.
Session Organizer, “Coarse-Grained Models for Polymers”, SIMU Conference “Bridging the Scales”, Genova, Italy, August 2004.
Member of the International Organizing Committee, PPEPPD 2010, Suzhou, China, and PPEPPD 2004, Snowbird, Utah, May 2004.
Co-organizer, 19th European Seminar on Applied Thermodynamics, Santorini, Greece, September 2002.
Co-organizer, SIMU-CECAM Workshop on Multiscale Modeling of Materials: Methods, Algorithms, and Unsolved Problems, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 2001.
Co-organizer, CECAM-ESF Workshop on Computer Simulations of Polymer Blends and Copolymer Systems, Lyon, France, September 13-15, 1999.
Co-chairman, ACS Workshop on Molecular Modeling of Polymers, Isle of Palms, SC, USA, March 1998.
Chairman of the Scientific Committee, 6th European Polymer Federation Symposium on Polymeric Materials, Aghia Pelaghia, Crete, Greece, October 1996.
Co-organizer, Symposium on Modeling and Computer Simulation of Polymers, Division of Polymer
Chemistry, National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, April 1992.
Co-organizer, Symposium on Structure and Mobility in Polymer Solids, 2nd Topical Conference on Emerging Technologies in Materials, 1989 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, San Francisco, California, November 1989.
Scientific Advisor, Molecular Simulations Inc./Accelrys, San Diego, CA, USA and Cambridge, UK, 1999-. Member of Scientific advisory board, Scienomics SARL, Paris, France, 2005-. Consultant, DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands, 2001-. Consultant, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn., BFGoodrich Co., Biosym Technologies, Inc., Oxford Molecular Ltd., 1989-1995.
Member of the Senate Committee on Basic Research of the National Technical University of Athens, 2006-.
Member of Steering Committee and Instructor, Interpartmental Program of Graduate Studies “Microsystems and Nanodevices”, NTU Athens, 2006-.
Member of Steering Committee and Instructor, Interpartmental Program of Graduate Studies “Mathematical Modeling in Modern Technologies and in Economics”, NTU Athens, 2003-.
Member of the Steering Committee of the European Network ‘‘Challenges in Molecular Simulation: Bridging the Length- and Time-Scale Gap’’ (SIMU), supported by the ESF, 1999-2004.
Member of the steering committee for the establishment of a supercomputer centre in Greece, National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1999-2000.
Member of the provisional general assembly of the newly formed Materials Science department at the University of Patras, 1999-2002.
Instructor in the Interdepartmental Program of Graduate Studies ‘‘Polymer Science and Engineering’’, University of Patras, 1998-2002.
Instructor in the program of graduate studies ‘‘Polymer Science and Its Applications’’, University of Athens, 1998-2002.
Instructor in the Third Summer School in Chemistry (SSC-3) ‘‘Topics in Polymer Chemistry’’, Socrates Program, University of Patras, July 2000.
Reviewer of instructional material prepared for the Hellenic Open University, 1998-2000
Member of Ph.D. examination committees at Imperial College London (UK), at the Universities of Groningen (NL), Eindhoven (NL), Twente (NL), Delft (NL), Leipzig (DE), at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia, at the University of Wollongong, Australia, at the Universities of Patras, Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, Ioannina, and at NTU Athens. Member of jury for awarding Habilitation á Diriger des Recherches at the Université de Savoie, France.
Reviewer of research proposals submitted to the following origanisations: National Science Foundation (USA), INTAS Program, DGXII of the European Union, Netherlands Foundation for Chemical Research (SON), Dutch Softlink Program, A.C.S. Petroleum Research Fund (U.S.A.), CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire), General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece, Research Commission of the ETH-Zürich, Research Committees of the Universities of Ioannina and Crete and of the National Technical University of Athens.
Referee of research articles submitted for publication to the journals Macromolecules, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Langmuir, Accounts of Chemical Research, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Chemical Communications, Molecular Physics, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Journal of Rheology, A.I.Ch.E. Journal, Chemical Engineering Science, J. Polymer Sci. B: Polymer Physics, Macromolecular Theory and Simulations, Theoretical and Computational Polymer Science, Composites, Technika Chronika.
Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, Technical Chamber of Greece, Athens College Alumni Association.
Languages Greek, English, German, French.
Personal
Interests Music (playing the piano), literature, traveling, swimming.