Background
Komvopoulos, Kyriakos was born on November 3, 1955 in Pireas, Greece. Son of Konstantinos and Evagelia (Karoussos) Komvopoulos. came to the United States, 1979.
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Kyriakos Komvopoulos
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Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, National Technology U., 1979; Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981; Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy in Mech. Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986.
Career
Research associate, National Technology U., Athens, 1978-1979; teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1980-1981; research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1981-1986; assistant professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1986-1989; assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-1991; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-1998; professor, University of California, Berkeley, since 1998. Consultant Zimmer Inc., Warsaw Inc., 1988, International Business Machines Corporation, San Jose, California, 1990, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company, Pleasanton, California, 1991-1992, Himachal Pradesh, Vancouver, Washington, 1995, Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Santa Clara, California, 1995, Chevron Chemical Company, Richmond, California, 1998, Maxter Company, Longmont, Colorado, 1998, Castlewood Sys., Inc., Milpitas, California, 1998, various legal firms.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers (associate editor Journal Tribology 1992-1995, Burt L. Newkirk award 1988, research commission on tribology), Society Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (chairman ceramics and composites committee 1989-1993).
Connections
Married Eleni Dadi, July 19, 1986. Children: Joanna, Marios.
