Prof. Charalabos (Haris) Doumanidis holds his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotelian 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 is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Hephaistos Thermal Manufacturing Laboratory at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts since 1991; Chief Scientist with Axcelis Technologies (Thermal Processing Systems) in Beverly, Massachusetts since 2000; the founding Director of the Nanomanufacturing Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia since 2001; Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT since 2002; and a consultant for automation, optoelectronics, biomedical imaging and automotive industries. His research and teaching interests include 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 an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, the organizer and chair of several symposia for ASME, IASTED, IEEE, NSET and NSF, the speaker of keynote and invited lectures, and the author of over 150 papers and several patents and book chapters. He is the recipient of the 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 several grants from NSF, SME, DoE, NIST, Honda R&D Americas etc. He presently serves as Professor of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus.

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.