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Professor Constantine (Dinos) Arcoumanis

Dipl (Phys), MS (Eng), PhD, DIC, DSc (Eng) (London), DSc (h.c.) (St. Petersburg), CEng, FIMechE, FSAE, FREng

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and International)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Contact Information
Room: A101
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7040 0113
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7040 8101
Email: C.Arcoumanis@city.ac.uk

Personal Information
Professor Arcoumanis holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics, Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1973), the University of California at Irvine, USA (1980), and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London (1984), respectively. Following his appointment as Lecturer at Imperial College in 1988, he was promoted to Reader in 1992 and to Professor of Internal Combustion Engines in 1995. In October 2000 he joined City University as Head of the Aeronautical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department (ACME), and also assumed the post of Dean of the School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences (SEMS).

In July 2006 he was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for research and international links, whilst remaining part-time Dean in SEMS. In July 2008 he stepped down as Dean of the School to take up the post of Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University full-time. For his extensive research on fluid mechanics and combustion of internal combustion engines Professor Arcoumanis has received numerous awards including the 1991 Dugald Clerk Prize of IMechE and the 1995 and 1998 Arch T. Colwell Merit Award of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

He is a member of the EPSRC College since its establishment, member of the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development (1996, 2000) and acted as Consultant to Brussels (DG17) and Bechtel Ltd. on the Auto-oil II European Programme (1998-2000), which focussed on alternative and renewable fuels for transportation. He is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the International Society of Automotive Engineers and was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2001. He holds honorary professorships at Tianjin and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and at the St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University of Russia where he received an honorary doctorate in 2009.

In 1999 Professor Arcoumanis founded the International Journal of Engine Research (JER) and he is now acting as its Editor for Europe. He is author and co-author of more than 200 publications and has recently edited and co-authored a Springer-Verlag monograph on "Flow and Combustion in Automotive Engines".

Research Interests