Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties

Winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties 2009

Dr. Eirini Karakatsani, Greece is the winner of the EFCE Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties 2009 Her PhD thesis on   " Development and Evaluation of a New Equation of State for Polar Fluids: Pure Components and Mixtures " completed at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis G. Economou, Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) “Demokritos”, received the best evaluation results in terms of dissemination of knowledge, originality of the topic, depth of the study, industrial relevance, and impact of the work.

Ms Eirini Karakatsani received her diploma in Chemical Engineering, her MSc in Computational Mechanics and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics from the National Technical University of Athens. She also holds an MBA in Engineering-Economic systems from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, the University of Piraeus and the National Technical University of Athens.
During her Ph.D. studies, she has been a post-graduate research fellow of the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) “Demokritos”. She has also worked as Quality Assurance Manager in the Greek pharmaceutical industry “DEMO”. She joined the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) in October 2007.

The award will be presented at a special session of the 24th European Symposium on Applied Thermodynamics - ESAT, which will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain from 27 June to 1 July 2009.

EFCE press release 2/2009 " Presentation of the EFCE Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties 2009 "