ProfessorChristos Markides
Professor of Clean Energy Technologies
Department of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- Professor of Clean Energy TechnologiesDepartment of Chemical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 1601 (Work)
- 404, ACE Extension, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Biography:
Christos Markides was born in Athens (Greece) in 1978, and grew up first in Johannesburg (South Africa) until the age of 7 and then in Limassol (Cyprus). After finishing school in 1995 and attending compulsory military service from 1995 to 1997, he left Cyprus to undertake a 4-year MEng degree in Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Following this first degree, he did a PhD in Energy Technologies, also at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Epaminondas (Nondas) Mastorakos, which he completed in 2005.
After completing his education, he worked for a short time as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) while also being a Fellow and Engineering Director of Studies at Robinson College. In 2006 he co-founded a spin-out of company, which was embedded in CUED, to develop a thermally powered fluid pumping technology based on a two-phase thermofluidic oscillator concept. He acted as the company's Technical Director until 2008, when he was awarded a 5-year co-current Fellowship by the Research Council's UK (RCUK) and (then) Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (FWEL); later acquired by John Wood Group. He was appointed to the post of Lecturer in Clean Energy Processes at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Imperial College in late 2008. He became Senior Lecturer in 2014, Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2018.
He now leads the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory, coordinates the Experimental Multiphase Flow (EMF) Laboratory, which is the largest such experimental space at Imperial College London, and is a Co-Founder and Director of recent spin-out company Solar Flow.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor of Clean Energy Technologies and Head of the Clean Energy Processes LaboratoryImperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom2018 - present
- Reader and Head of the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) LaboratoryImperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom2016 - 2018
- Senior Lecturer and Head of the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) LaboratoryImperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom2014 - 2016
- Lecturer and Research Councils UK – Foster Wheeler Fellow in Clean Energy ProcessesImperial College London, Department of Chemical Engineering, London, United Kingdom2008 - 2014
- Official Fellow and Director of Studies in EngineeringRobinson College, Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2005 - 2008
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Founding Editor-in-Chief AI Thermal FluidsElsevier, London, United Kingdom2024 - present
- Editor-in-Chief Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier, London, United Kingdom2019 - present
- Founder and Director of Spin-out Company Solar Flow LtdSolar Flow Ltd, London, United Kingdom2018 - present
- Co-founder and Technical Director of R&D in Spin-Out Company and Embedded Researcher in Experimental Thermofluidics – Low-Grade Solar and Waste Heat Utilization TechnologiesThermofluidics (United Kingdom) and University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom2006 - 2008
DEGREES
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2001 - 2005
- Master of Arts (MA)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2003 - 2003
- Master of Engineering (MEng)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2000 - 2001
- Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in EngineeringUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom1997 - 2000
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Postdoctoral Research Associate in Turbulent Mixing and AutoignitionUniversity of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom2005 - 2006Postdoctoral Research
- Doctoral Research Associate in EU Project ‘Simulation Tools for Pollutant Predictions’ (STOPP)Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Processes (ICE-HT), Patras, Greece2001 - 2003Simulation Tools for Pollutant PredictionsPredoctoral Fellowship
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Clean Energy Technologies