Costas P. Grigoropoulos received his
Diploma Degrees in Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering (1978), and in
Mechanical Engineering (1980) from the
National Technical University of
Athens, Greece. He holds a M.Sc.
degree (1983), and a Ph.D. (1986),
both in Mechanical Engineering from
Columbia University. He joined the
faculty of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at the
University of California at Berkeley
as an Assistant Professor in 1990,
after serving as an Assistant
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at
the University of Washington from
1986-1990. He was promoted to
Associate Professor in July 1993 and
to Professor in Mechanical Engineering
in July 1997. He holds the A. Martin
Berlin Chair in Mechanical
Engineering. He has conducted research
at the Xerox Mechanical Engineering
Sciences Laboratory, the IBM Almaden
Research Center and the Institute of
Electronic Structure and Laser, FORTH,
Greece. He is Faculty Staff Scientist
with the Environmental Energy
Technologies Division of the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory.
Grigoropoulos’ current research
interests are in micro/nano
engineering, laser materials
processing and micro/nano-machining,
fabrication of flexible electronics
and energy conversion devices,
characterization of micro/nanofluidic
transport and laser interactions with
biological materials.
Grigoropoulos has taught courses in
heat transfer, thermodynamics, fluid
mechanics, laboratory instrumentation
and experimentation, laser processing
and diagnostics at both the
Undergraduate and Graduate levels. He
has guided 43 doctoral and 5 MSc
students to completion and has advised
32 post-doctoral researchers and 32
visiting scholars. He has published
more than 325 research articles in
archival Journals, 17 Chapters in
technical review books and 9 U.S.
patents. He has also published the
books *Transport in Laser
Microfabrication*, Cambridge
University Press (2009) and
*Hierarchical Nanostructures for
Energy Devices*, RSC Publishing
(2014). He was a Miller Professor for
basic research in science in 1999, a
visiting Professor at ETH Zurich in
2000 and 2009 and a visiting Professor
in Johannes Kepler University, Linz,
Austria in 2008. He is a Fellow of
ASME and SPIE, and recipient of the
ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
(2007) and Hawkins Lecturer Purdue
University (2018). He was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate and Gold Medal form
the National Technical University of
Athens (2022). He served as Editor of
the *International Journal of Heat and
Mass Transfer* from 2010 to 2022.