Dr. Charalabos C. Doumanidis
Nanomanufacturing Program Director
National Science Foundation
Topic: The Nano-World as a Manufacturing Playground: The Vision of Nanomanufacturing at NSF
Prof. Charalabos (Haris) Doumanidis holds his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki (1983), his M.S. from Northwestern University (1985), and his Ph.D. from MIT (1988). He has been a Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (1989), a Squadron Sergeant for the Hellenic Air Force (1990), and a Lecturer at the Aristotelian Univ. (1991). He has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Hephaistos Thermal Manufacturing Laboratory at Tufts University in Medford, MA (1991-2000); Chief Scientist with Axcelis Technologies (Thermal Processing Systems) in Beverly, MA (2000-01); Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (2003-06); Professor (2003-present) and Marie Curie Chair (2004-2007), Founding Head of the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Dept (2004-06) and Founding Director of the Hephaistos Nanotechnology Research Center at the University of Cyprus (2006-2009); the founding Director of the Nanomanufacturing Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia (2001-03, 2006-07 and Oct. 2010-); and consultant for the automation, optoelectronics, biomedical and automotive industry.
His research and teaching interests include nanoscale manufacturing and mechanics, thermal processing of materials, deposition and joining processes, rapid prototyping, rapid thermal processing and laser annealing of semiconductors, distributed parameter system modeling and control, robotics and mechatronics, and biomedical instrumentation. He is Guest/Associate Editor of international scientific journals for Elsevier and IASTED; research reviewer for 15 technical journals and research funding institutions; organizer and chair of over 20 symposia for ASME, IEEE, NSET, NSF etc; speaker of over 20 keynote/plenary lectures and over 100 invited seminars; the author of over 200 refereed papers, distinguished by 3 best paper awards (ASME, ACC and ISNM), eight patents and two book chapters. He is a recipient of the Marie Curie Chair of Excellence (2004) by the European Commission, the ASME Blackall Award (2002), the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award by the White House (1996), the NSF Young Investigator (1994) and the Research Initiation Award (1992), as well as several grants from NSF, SME, DoE, NIST, Honda R&D Americas etc, totalling over $ 10 million as a PI. He teaches courses in design and manufacturing, controls and robotics, and has set up ten research/teaching laboratories at Tufts and UCY. He mentors the research planning of many junior investigators at UCY and the USA, postdocs, 40 graduate students, and his three children.
