Prof. Charalabos (Haris) Doumanidis holds his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotelio Univ. of Thessaloniki (1983), his M.S. from Northwestern University (1985), and his Ph.D. from MIT (1988). He has been a Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (1989), a Squadron Sergeant for the Hellenic Air Force (1990), and a Lecturer at the Aristotelian Univ. (1991). He has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Hephaistos Thermal Manufacturing Laboratory at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts (1991-2001); Chief Scientist with Axcelis Technologies (Thermal Processing Systems) in Beverly, Massachusetts (2000-2001); and the founding Director of the Nanomanufacturing Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia (2001-2003). He is currently a Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (2002-); an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UMass Lowell (2004-); a Professor and Interim Head of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus (2003); and a consultant for the automation, optoelectronics, biomedical imaging and automotive industries.

His research and teaching interests include nanomanufacturing (nanocomposite foils by ultrasonic welding, reactive bimetallic/AAO nanoheaters, tissue scaffolds by electrospinning of nanofibers, ultrasonic and laser consolidation of nanopowders), thermal manufacturing, material deposition and joining processes, rapid prototyping, rapid thermal processing and laser annealing of semiconductors, distributed parameter system modeling and control, robotics and mechatronics, and biomedical instrumentation. He is a Guest Editor for the CAD Journal, Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems (IMechE), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, the organizer and/or chair of about 30 symposia and sessions for ASME, IASTED, IEEE, NSET and NSF, the speaker of around 90 keynote and invited lectures, the author of over 170 papers (including 3 Best Paper awards), 7 patents and 2 book chapters. He is the recipient of the Marie Curie Chair of Excellence by the European Commission (2004), ASME Blackall Award (2002), the White House Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1996), the NSF Young Investigator (1994) and the Research Initiation Award (1992), as well as grants totalling over $8 million by EC, NSF, RPF, SME, DoE, NIST, Honda R&D Americas etc.

* Recent Journal Articles:

1. Doumanidis C, Gao Y, "Mechanical Modeling of Ultrasonic Welding", AWS Welding Journal Vol 83. No. 4, 2004,
p. 140s-146s.
2. Alaeddine M, Doumanidis C, "Distributed Parameter Thermal Controllability: a Numerical Method for Solving the Inverse Heat Conduction Problem", Intl J. for Numerical Methods in Eng, Vol. 59, 2004, p. 945-961.
3. Alaeddine M, Doumanidis C, “Distributed Parameter Thermal System Control and Observation by Green-Galerkin Methods”, Int. J. for Numer. Meth. Engng, Vol 61, 2004, p. 1921-1937.
4. Alaeddine M, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C, “Modeling the Melting and Dissolution Stages During Thermal Processing of Intermetallic Coatings from Layered Precursors”, Trans. ASME, J. Of Manuf. Sci. & Eng, Vol. 127, 2005, p. 148-156.
5. Doumanidis C, “Nanomanufacturing: Technical Advances, Research Challenges, and Future Directions”, IMechE J. of Nanoeng. & Nanosystems, Vol. 218 Part N, 2005, p. 51.70 (invited paper).
6. Gunduz I.E, Ando T, Shattuck E, Wong P, Doumanidis C, “Enhanced Diffusion and Phase Transformations During Ultrasonic Welding of Zinc and Aluminum”, Elsevier Scripta Materialia Vol. 52, 2005, p. 939-943.
7. Vayena O, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C, "Welding Methods for Production of MMC Coatings using Particulate-Cored Wire Precursors by Welding Methods", SME Journal of Manufacturing Processes Vol. 7, No.2, 2005, p. 1-10.
8. Doumanidis C, Kassinos S, “The Role of Cyprus in the World of Nanotechnology”, Endeiktes Vol. 14, Dec. 2005, p. 52-57 (in Greek).

* Recent Articles in Conference Proceedings of the societies:

1. Alaeddine M, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C, Wong P.Y, "Phase Selection in the Reactive Fabrication of Nickel Aluminide Coatings by Rapid Heating of Plated Precursors", 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing, Xi’an, China, 2004.
2. Alaeddine M, Zou J, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C, Wong P.Y., "Thermal and Mass Modeling of the Laser-Point Sealing Process in MEMS Packaging", ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2004.
3. Gunduz I, Shattuck E, Wong P.Y, Ando T, Doumanidis C, “Enhanced Diffusion of Zinc in Aluminum during Ultrasonic Welding”, Proc. of Materials Research Society, Boston MA, December 2004.
4. Alaeddine M, Doumanidis C, "Infinite-Dimensional Thermal Observability in Materials Processing", American Automatic Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., 2005.
5. Wong P, Ando T, Doumanidis C, Gunduz I.E, Shattuck E, “Ultrasonic Rapid Manufacturing of Meso/Microscale Functional and Active Structures”, Proc. Of NSF DMII Grantees Conference, Scottsdale, AZ 2005.
6. Alaeddine M, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C.C, Wong P.Y, Blue C.A, “Simulation of the Temperature and Extent of Ni Dissolution During the Reactive Fabrication of Nickel Aluminide Coatings by Rapid Heating of Plated Precursors”, Proc. Of 6th Intl. Conf. of Frontiers of Design & Manuf., Xi’an, China 2005.
7. Alaeddine M, Doumanidis C.C, “Infinite-Dimensional Thermal Observability in Materials Processing”, IEEE ISIC’05/MED’05, Limassol, Cyprus 2005.
8. Alaeddine M, Doumanidis C.C, Ando T, “Mesh-Free Modeling and Control of Thermal/Diffusion Fields Created by Nano-Sources”, Proc. 3rd Intl. Symp. On Nanomanufacturing, Cyprus 2005 (Best Paper Award).
9. Christophidou A, Doumanidis C, “Ultrasonic Welding of Polymer Nanocomposites”, Proc. 3rd Intl. Symp. On Nanomanufacturing, Limassol Cyprus, Nov. 2005.
10. Alaeddine M, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C.C, “Real Time Modeling and Control in Plasma Arc Fabrication of Intermetallic Coatings”, Joint IEEE 44th CDC and ECC, Seville, Spain 2005.
11. Alaeddine M, Ranganathan R, Ando T, Doumanidis C.C, “Kinetic Modeling of the Microstructure Growth in Plasma Arc Fabrication of Nickel Aluminide Coatings”, Conf. on Model Reduction and Coarse Graining Approaches for Multiscale Phenomena, Leicester UK, 2005.