Gasmems Network

Partner n°1 - Coordinator

Name of the Partner: INSA  (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) 

Department: ICA (Institut Clément Ader)

Web site: http://www.insa-toulouse.fr

Network Coordinator/ Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Stéphane Colin  (stephane.colin@insa-toulouse.fr)

Network Coordinator Assistant: Dr. Lucien Baldas (lucien.baldas@insa-toulouse.fr)

Administrative Coordinator: Chloé Prado (chloe.prado@insa-toulouse.fr)

Presentation of the partner:

INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Toulouse is a French public School of Engineering, part of the University of Toulouse (80 000 students). INSA develops an intensive international exchanges policy (20 % of foreigners among the 2500 students, more than 80 exchange contracts with foreign universities, including 10 double degree agreements), with an adapted infrastructure for the host of international students: accommodation, free language courses, help desk for students’ integration… With 9 research laboratories and 230 PhD students, INSA is nationally and internationally recognised for its high level research. ICA (Institut Clément Ader) is highly involved in microfluidics for more than 10 years (before: LGMT-Laboratoire de Génie Mécanique de Toulouse). It has created with the help of the French Hydrotechnic Society in 1999 and currently leads the Microfluidics Group (more than 25 research laboratories) which promotes microfluidics research at National and European Levels.

Stéphane Colin leads research in microfluidics and works on modelling and experimentation on gas microflows with Lucien Baldas who is the Head of International Relations of INSA, and with Sandrine Geoffroy and Christine Barrot. They have developed with Nicolas Laurien specific experimental setups for studying microgasflows under controlled temperature conditions.

Partner n°2 

Name of the Partner: UNIBO (Universita di Bologna) 

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Energetica Nucleare e del
Controllo Ambientale - DIENCA

Web site: http://www.unibo.it/Portale/default.htm

Scientist-in-charge: Gian-Luca Morini (gianluca.morini3@unibo.it)

Person in charge of financial and administrative aspects: Carmen Auriccio (carmen.auricchio@unibo.it) 

Partner n°3 

Name of the Partner: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology )

Department: Institute for Micro Process Engineering - IMVT

Web site: http://www.kit.edu/

Scientist-in-charge: Juergen Brandner (juergen.brandner@kit.edu)

Person in charge of financial aspects: Natascha Wallburg (natascha.wallburg@kit.edu)

Person in charge of administrative aspects: Berndt Kronimus (berndt.kronimus@kit.edu)

Partner n°4 

Name of the Partner: ULim (University of Limerick)

Department: Stokes Institute

Web site: http://www.ul.ie/

Scientist-in-charge: David Newport (david.newport@ul.ie)

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: David Newport (david.newport@ul.ie)

Partner n°5 

Name of the Partner: UTH (University of Thessaly)                       

Department: Dpt of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Web site: http://www.mie.uth.gr/

Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Dimitris Valougeorgis (diva@mie.uth.gr)

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: Prof. Dimitris Valougeorgis (diva@mie.uth.gr) and Zoe Zoupi (zoupi@mie.uth.gr).

Presentation of the partner:

The University of Thessaly (UTH) is a state (public) university and it was founded in 1984. As one of the major universities of Greece its objective is to provide academic (educational and research) expertise in various fields including humanities, engineering, medicine, agriculture and economics. The Dept. of Mechanical Engineering belongs to the Polytechnic School of UTH and it is one of the five schools in Greece offering graduate and postgraduate degrees in Mech. Eng. With 10 research laboratories, 20 faculty members and more than 100 Ph.D. students has a very good reputation worldwide for excellence in research activities. The research group involved in the GASMEMS project belongs to the Laboratory of Physical and Chemical Processes (one of the 10 laboratories in the department) and has long experience in the development and efficient implementation of kinetic modelling in the simulation of non-equilibrium gas flows and heat transfer problems.

Dimitris Valougeorgis leads research in kinetic theory and rarefied gas dynamics with applications in several fields including gas microflows.

Partner n°6 

Name of the Partner: STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Department: STFC Daresbury Laboratory

Web site: http://www.scitech.ac.uk/

Scientist-in-charge of the project: Dr. Robert Barber (robert.barber@stfc.ac.uk)

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: Dr. Robert Barber (robert.barber@stfc.ac.uk)

Partner n°7

Name of the Partner: ImechBAS (Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Department: Dpt of complex and multiphase flows

Web site: http://www.imbm.bas.bg/

Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Stefan Stefanov (stefanov@imbm.bas.bg)

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: Dr. Stefan Stefanov (stefanov@imbm.bas.bg)

Partner n°8

Name of the Partner: UP (Université de Provence)

Department: Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de
Marseille/IUSTI, UMR 6595

Web site: http://www.univ-provence.fr/

Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Irina Graour (irina.graour@polytech.univ-mrs.fr)

Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: Audrey Janssens (Audrey.Janssens@univ-provence.fr)

Partner n°9

Name of the Partner: UNIUD (Universita degli Studi di Udine)

Department: DIEM (Dipartimento Energetica e Macchine)

Web site: http://www.uniud.it/

Scientist-in-charge: Prof. Giulio Croce (giulio.croce@uniud.it)
Person in charge of administrative, legal and financial aspects of the project: Laura Fagarazzi (laura.fagarazzi@uniud.it)

Partner n°10

Name of the Partner: TUE (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)

Department: Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering

Web site: http://www.tue.nl/

Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Arjan Frijns (a.j.h.frijns@tue.nl)

Person in charge of administrative and legal aspects: Alfons Bruekers (a.w.j.bruekers@tue.nl)

Person in charge of financial aspects: Peter Van den Munckhof (P.F.M.M.v.d.Munckhof@tue.nl)

Partner n°11

Name of the Partner: AOES Group BV                                                   

Web site: http://www.aoes.com 

Contact person for legal information: Paul Pearson, CEO (paul.pearson@aoes.com)

Person in charge of scientific and technical aspects in this project: Gennady Markelov, PhD, Senior Consultant (gennady.markelov@aoes.com)

Presentation of the partner:
AOES Group B.V. is a private company that has branches in Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and France. Since October 2003 AOES has become an independent company through a management buyout. Prior to this AOES was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Atos Origin organization. The roots of AOES go back to 1980 when, as IKOSS GmbH, Stuttgart, mechanical engineering specialists using finite element techniques were providing support and consultancy to customers at the European Space Agency as well as automotive customers in Germany.The Dutch business expanded significantly during the 1990s when specialist engineering skills were required in structures, mechanisms, thermal, CFD, CAE/PLM, and IT areas. In 2000, Aircraft Engineering and Medialab - Technical Visual Communication was added to the AOES service portfolio. Today, AOES Group BV is a fully independent company of about 100 employees that are highly professional engineering consultants in Space, Aircraft, and Automotive fields. AOES engineers have applied the direct simulation and test particle Monte Carlo methods, Particle-In-Cell method as well as engineering methods to analyze: aerothermodynamics of spacecraft at high altitudes, plume impingement effects: mechanical loads, heat fluxes, and contamination of spacecraft surfaces, plasma flow exhausted from Hall Effect Thruster and Field Emision Electric Propulsion, plasma flow around satellite, viscous flow inside micro devices, for example, nozzles, orifices, and tubes, transmission conductivity of vacuum system with complex shape tubes. Such analysis was performed for the following European Space Agency’s projects: Meteo satellite Second Generation (MSG), Mars Express (MEX), Venus Express (VEX), Huygens, Planck, Vega, Aeolus, Cryosat, EXPERT, GOCE, SMART-1, MICROSCOPE and many others.

Gennady Markelov has a wide experience in numerical modeling of viscous flows through micro-nozzles, tubes, orifices etc.  

Partner n°12

Name of the Partner: UStrath (University of Strathclyde)

Department: Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering

Web site: http://www.strath.ac.uk/

Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Yonghao Zang
Person in charge of administrative, financial and legal aspects: Martin Gregory (martin.gregory@strath.ac.uk)

Partner n°13

Name of the Partner: TUD (Technische Universität Dresden)

Department: Dpt. of Chemical Engineering

Web site: http://tu-dresden.de/

Scientist-in-charge: Dr. Tobias Bauer (tobias.bauer@tu-dresden.de)

Person in charge of administrative, financial and legal aspects: Claudia Hawke (Claudia.Hawke@tu-dresden.de)

Partner n°14

Name of the Partner: INFICON

Web site: http://www.inficon.com/en/index.html

Scientist-in-charge: Martin Wüest (Martin.Wuest@inficon.com)

Partner n°15

Name of the Partner: LAAS (Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systèmes )

Web site: http://www2.laas.fr/laas/2-4257-Home.php

Scientist-in-charge: Anne-Marie Gué (gue@laas.fr)

Partner n°16

Name of the Partner: JRC-IHCP (Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Joint Research Center)

Web site: http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Scientist-in-charge: Maurice Whelan (maurice.whelan@jrc.it) 

Partner n°17

Name of the Partner: ENEA (ENEA Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile)

Web site: http://www.casaccia.enea.it/

Scientist-in-charge: Gian Piero Celata (celata@casaccia.enea.it)

Associated Partner n°18

Name of the Partner: NEROXIS SA 

Contact person: Yves de Coulon (CEO)

email: info@neroxis.ch

Associated Partner n°19

Name of the Partner: Brooks Instrument B.V.

Contact person: Jan Willem van Rijswijk

website: http://www.brooksinstrument.com/

email: BrooksEU@BrooksInstrument.com