Ioannis Sarris

Dr. Ioannis Sarris is a Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of West Attica, Greece. Director of the MSc program, “Research in Thermofluids”. He holds a diploma in mechanical engineering (1995) from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Patras (Greece) and a PhD in Engineering (2001) from the Dept. of Mechanical (and Industrial) Engineering, University of Thessaly (Greece). He was a visiting lecturer at the Departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at University of Thessaly (UTh) tutoring numerous undergraduate courses and the postgraduate lesson of “Computational Fluid Mechanics”. He has received three National fellowships at 2000, 2004 and 2005, and two international ones, the prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship at Physique Statistique et Plasmas, Université Libre de Bruxelles, (Belgium, 2005-2007) and the important CTR Summer Program Fellowship, Stanford University, (USA, 2006). He was the PhD co-supervisor of 5 students and is the supervisor of 4 PhD students, and several Post-Doc Researchers have been welcomed in his lab during the last 12 years. He is the head of the Flow Analysis and Simulation Team (FAST, http://fluids.uniwa.gr) of UNIWA. National representative at the EuroTHERM committee. His research interests currently include magnetohydrodynamics, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, heat and mass transfer, turbulence, particulate flows, micropolar fluids, biological flows, optimization methods, physical and chemical processes, and suspensions. His research activities are performed within the framework of many national and international collaborations.

He has been involved in several industrial and academic research projects in Greece and Europe as PI or Co-I, with his multiyear involvement in the EuroFusion program to be the most prominent. He is the PI of the industrial project ‘Pentaload Heatsink for electronics cooling’ for Logicdev eU (Austria, 2022-2024). He was involved as a WP leader in the SYNERGASIA project (with Academy of Athens and NTUA, 2013-2015) he was the Associate Academic Responsible for EDBM 104 project (with EKETA, Greece, 2019-2020), he is the PI of one Pathfinder project and two MSCA Staff Exchange projects (with Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Cyprus, Serbia, Turkey, Belgium and Bulgaria, 2024-2027) and one Erasmus Capacity Building project (With Poland, Turkey, India, Malesia and Sri Lanka, 2023-2026) and one ERASMUS-KA220-HED, 2024-27) , among others. He was the National Representative in the Management Committee of the European COST action “Particles in turbulence”, MP0806 (with all European countries, 2009-2013), and recently nominated as Review Panel expert in the COST. Knowledge gathered from all these projects he is involved in is the scientific base to be used in the COOL-DC project. FAST team is also nominated for the Bootcamp Innovate for Impact: Transforming Digital Public Services”, GR digiGOV-innoHUB (2023).

He has published more than 300 refereed journals, book chapters and conference research papers, including 190 papers indexed by Scopus. Most of them regarding the natural, forced, and mixed convective heat transfer of fluids under various configurations and conditions. His research work has received 3048/3681 citations in Scopus/Google Scholar, his h-index is 29/33, respectively. He has recently been nominated as a 2% worldwide researcher by Elsevier and Stanford University for 2023.