Marc Hodes
(617) 627-2488
574 Boston Ave, Room 318H
Research/Areas of Interest
Transport Phenomena in the context of superhydrophobic surfaces, nano-material manufacture, thermal management of electronics, energy harvesting, mass transfer in supercritical fluids and thermoelectricity.
Education
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, 1998
- M.S., University of Minnesota, United States, 1994
- B.S. with high honors, University of Pittsburgh, United States, 1990
Biography
Marc Hodes earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from, respectively, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Minnesota, and MIT. He spent 10 years at Bell Labs Research and has spent extended periods at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST), the University of Limerick, and Imperial College London. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University in 2008. He has been a long-term Academic/Honorary Visitor in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London since 2015.
Marc Hodes' research interests are in Transport Phenomena and, over the course of his career, four thematic areas have been addressed: 1) the thermal management of electronics, 2) mass transfer in supercritical fluids 3) analysis of thermoelectric modules and 4) analysis of convection in the presence of apparent slip on superhydrophobic surfaces. Recent projects have concerned, for example, closed-form analytical solutions to replace numerical ones in the heat pipe, heat sink and thermal contact resistance literature, liquid metal (non-toxic Galinstan) cooling of microelectronics for reduced energy consumption in data centers, myriad problems related to the manufacture of nano-materials in the form of aerogels and newer work on energy harvesting and desalination. He teaches a broad array of class at Tufts University including about 8 different courses on Transport Phenomena in the Mechanical Engineering Department and, for example, Complex Variables in the Math Department.
Marc Hodes' research interests are in Transport Phenomena and, over the course of his career, four thematic areas have been addressed: 1) the thermal management of electronics, 2) mass transfer in supercritical fluids 3) analysis of thermoelectric modules and 4) analysis of convection in the presence of apparent slip on superhydrophobic surfaces. Recent projects have concerned, for example, closed-form analytical solutions to replace numerical ones in the heat pipe, heat sink and thermal contact resistance literature, liquid metal (non-toxic Galinstan) cooling of microelectronics for reduced energy consumption in data centers, myriad problems related to the manufacture of nano-materials in the form of aerogels and newer work on energy harvesting and desalination. He teaches a broad array of class at Tufts University including about 8 different courses on Transport Phenomena in the Mechanical Engineering Department and, for example, Complex Variables in the Math Department.