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Hopkinson/ICI Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Epaminondas Mastorakos is the Hopkinson/ICI Professor of Applied Thermodynamics at the Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. He joined Cambridge in 2000 after education at Imperial College and Cornell University and post-doctoral appointments in Keio University (Yokohama, Japan), Institut Francais du Petrole (Paris, France), and the Institute for High Temperature Process (Patras, Greece).
He has experience with fuels, energy, combustion, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, forest fires, and energy systems for aviation and shipping. His lab has received funding from industry, the EU, Singapore’s NRF and UK’s EPSRC on a range of topics, with significant activity on gas turbine and diesel engine combustion, and aviation and shipping decarbonisation. He has also worked on aerosol dispersion and disease transmission, and during COVID his team has produced publicly-available risk estimators for internal settings. He has co-founded start-ups commercialising forest fire spreading and maritime energy systems modelling.
He is currently the Combustion Research Coordinator in the Rolls-Royce / Cambridge University Gas Turbine Partnership. His papers have received numerous prizes from the Combustion Institute, Institute of Physics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has been elected Fellow of the Combustion Institute (2018), Fellow of the UK Institute of Mechanical Engineers (2019), and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2022).
