Summary
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; for more details about the research and other activities of the group and his personal research interests, please click here.
| Date | Role |
|---|---|
| 2018 - | Professor of Clean Energy Technologies Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London |
| 2018 - | Founder and Director of Spin-out Company Solar Flow Ltd, Imperial College London |
| 2016 - 2018 | Reader in Clean Energy Processes Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London |
| 2014 - 2016 | Senior Lecturer in Clean Energy Processes Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London |
| 2008 - 2014 | Lecturer and RCUK-Foster Wheeler Fellow in Clean Energy Processes Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London |
| 2006 - 2008 | Co-Founder and Technical Director of Spin-out Company / Embedded Researcher in Experimental Thermofluidics and Heat Transfer Thermofluidics Ltd / Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge |
| 2005 - 2008 | Official Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering Robinson College, Cambridge |
| 2005 - 2006 | Postdoctoral Research Associate in Turbulent Mixing and Autoignition Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge |
| 2001 - 2005 | PhD in Energy: ‘Autoignition in Turbulent Flows’ Cambridge University Engineering Department and Clare College, Cambridge |
| 2001 - 2003 | Doctoral Research Associate in EU Project ‘Simulation Tools for Pollutant Predictions’ (STOPP) Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Processes (ICE-HT), Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Patras, Greece |
| 2000 - 2001 | MEng in Energy, Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery (with Distinction) Cambridge University Engineering Department and Clare College, Cambridge |
| 1997 - 2000 | BA (Hons) in Engineering (Ranked 5th) Cambridge University Engineering Department and Clare College, Cambridge |
Research Interests
- Methods, processes, components, technologies and systems for the collection, recovery, utilization, conversion and/or storage of energy for heating, cooling and power, novel 'total energy' integration schemes in high-efficiency systems with emphasis on renewable and waste heat, and solar energy
- Hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) collectors and solar combined cooling, heating and power (S-CCHP) trigeneration systems in distributed applications
- Waste-heat recovery and conversion to heating, cooling and/or power with advanced cycles
- Thermal energy storage and large-scale electrical energy storage via thermal processes
- Nuclear energy thermohydraulics and next-generation thermodynamic power systems
- Thermodynamics and fluid flow/heat transfer effects in conversion devices and machines, heat exchangers and other high-performance components
- Transport processes, heat and fluid flows in energy technologies, urban environments, physiological systems, etc., including turbulent, inhomogeneous, multiphase and reacting flows
- Multiphase and interfacial flows, including horizontal, vertical or inclined liquid-liquid or gas-liquid flows
- Novel fluid mixing and bioreactor design and characterization
- Autoignition, combustion and post-ignition flame propagation phenomena
- Gasification of heavy oil, and coal and syngas production
- Development and application of advanced diagnostics: high-resolution intrusive and non-intrusive (optical/laser-based) techniques for the measurement for velocity, turbulence, species, concentration, phase distribution, temperature, heat flux and reaction with particle image velocimetry (PIV), particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), infrared (IR) thermography, and related techniques
Links
Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory
Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Theme
Multiscale Computational Chemical Engineering Research Theme
Multiphase Transport Processes Research Theme
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Solanki R, Mathie R, Galindo A, et al., 2013, Modelling of a Two-Phase Thermofluidic Oscillator for Low-Grade Heat Utilisation: Accounting for Irreversible Thermal Losses, Applied Energy
Mathie R, Nakamura H, Markides CN, 2012, Heat Transfer Augmentation in Unsteady Conjugate Thermal Systems – Part II: Applications, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol:56, Pages:819-833
Zadrazil I, Bismarck A, Hewitt GF, et al., 2012, Shear Layers in the Turbulent Pipe Flow of Drag Reducing Polymer Solutions, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol:72, Pages:142-154
Markides CN, Smith TCB, 2011, A Dynamic Model for the Efficiency Optimization of an Oscillatory Low Grade Heat Engine, Energy, Vol:12, Pages:6967-6980