Dr. Dionysios STEFANITSIS

Dr. Dionysios Stefanitsis is a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Applied Thermodynamics at the Department of Engineering (group leader prof. S. Leyer).

He currently works for the bridges FNR project DIRECT2 performing CFD simulations of cavitation in fuel injection equipment. The title of his PhD thesis is ““Direct numerical simulation of secondary droplet breakup in fuel sprays”. He has published 10 papers in scientific journals (h-index 7, Scholar) and has attended 3 international conferences.

He teaches the thermodynamics course for the “Master en Développement durable” in summer semester.

Between 2016 and 2023 he worked at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), where he was involved in the execution and management of 6 EU projects, he supervised a team of 3 people working on CFD simulations and contributed to proposal writing (2 of them recently funded). He also worked in the industry for 1.5 year (2014-2016) for the Public Power Corporation.

He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the City University of London, UK in 2020, his MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology from TU Delft in 2015 and his Diploma (BSc+MSc) in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 2012.