Konstantinos Boulouchos
Professor
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Konstantinos Boulouchos has been Professor at the Institute of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, since 2002. He was born in Chalkis, Greece in 1955. Konstantinos Boulouchos holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich. Following postdoctoral research at Princeton University he returned to ETH Zurich at the end of 1988 to establish the research group on unsteady combustion at the Institute of Energy Technology. In 1995 he was appointed head of the Combustion Research Section at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and has coordinated the Joint Combustion Research Program of ETH Zurich and PSI, from 1995 until 2005. In 2002 he was elected Professor and Head of the Aerothermochemistry and Combustion Systems Laboratory at ETH Zurich. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of the Energy Science Center ETH Zürich from its foundation 2005 until 2011. In this capacity he was coordinating author of the “Energy Strategy for ETH Zürich” (2008) and “Energy Future for Switzerland” (2011).
Research Interest
Fundamentals of chemically reactive systems in energy conversion technology with regard both to modeling and simulation of laminar and turbulent reactive flows and to non-intrusive diagnostic methods in combustion systems.
