The instructors in the ADES graduate program are the faculty members from the Divisions of "Energy, Industrial Processes & Pollution Abatement Technology" and "Mechanics, Materials & Manufacturing Processes" of the Department of Mechanical Engineering:

Michalis Agoras

Michalis Agoras

(Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, 2005, PhD and MSc in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2010)

Assistant Professor of Non-Linear Composite Materials. Specializes in the development of homogenization models for the study, design, and optimization of the properties of composite materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers (glass and carbon fiber composites), reinforced lightweight metals, shape memory alloys, porous materials, etc. These materials are widely used in technological applications in energy infrastructures (wind turbines, hydrocarbon and water pipelines), the aerospace industry, the automotive industry, robotics, biomedical engineering, and other fields.

Indicative Publications:

  • Fontenele, F., Andarawis-Puri, N., Agoras, M., and Bouklas, N., 2022. Fiber plasticity and loss of ellipticity in soft composites under non-monotonic loading. International Journal of Solids and Structures 249, 111628.
  • Agoras, M., Avazmohammadi, R. and Ponte Castañeda, P., 2016. Incremental variational procedure for elasto-viscoplastic composites
    and application to polymer and metal-matrix composites reinforced by spheroidal elastic particles. International Journal of Solids and Structures 97-98. 668-686.
  • Agoras, M. and Ponte Castañeda, P., 2013. Iterated linear comparison bounds for viscoplastic porous materials with ellipsoidal
    microstructures. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 61, 701-725.
  • Agoras, M. and Ponte Castañeda, P., 2011. Homogenization estimates for multi-scale nonlinear composites. European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids 30, 828-843.
  • Agoras, M., Lopez-Pamies, O., and Ponte Castañeda, P., 2009. A general hyper-elastic model for incompressible fiber-reinforced elastomers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 57. 268-286.

Recent Research Collaborations:

  • Domain formation in soft biological composites under cyclic loading conditions at finite strains. 2020-Present. Collaboration with Bouklas, N., Fontenele, F., and Iordanidis, D., Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, NY 14853, USA.

Nikos Andritsos

Nikos Andritsos

(Diploma in Chemical Engineering (1979), AUth, MSc (1981) Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester (UMIST), United Kingdom,
PhD (1986) Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Η.Π.Α.)

Professor of Experimental Transport Phenomena

Nikos Aravas

Nikos Aravas

(Diploma in Mechanical Engineering(1980), AUth, MSc (1982) in Theoretical & Αpplied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ΗΠΑ,
PhD (1985) in Theoretical & Αpplied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ΗΠA)

Professor of Computational Mechanics of Structures

Dimitris Valougeorgis

Dimitris Valougeorgis

(Diploman in Mechanical Engineering, AUth 1980, MSc 1982 και Ph.D. 1985, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, ΗΠΑ)

Professor of Analytical and Computational Meso-Scale Methods in Flow and Transport Phenomena. He has 25 years of research and teaching experience in the analysis of flow and heat transfer phenomena, with his research focusing on kinetic gas theory, low-pressure aerodynamics (pumps/compressors, sensors, pipeline networks, etc.), and micro-electromechanical systems. He also has 10 years of professional experience as a project engineer in the petrochemical industry (refineries and chemical plants), specifically in the design, procurement, and supervision of industrial equipment installation. In recent years, he has been systematically involved in the analysis and simulation of solar thermal systems.

 

Indicative Publications:

  • N. Vasileiadis, D. Valougeorgis, Modeling of time-dependent gas pumping networks in the whole range of the Knudsen number: Simulations of the ITER dwell phase, Fusion Engineering and Design, 151, 111383, 2020.
  • G. López Quesada, G. Tatsios, D. Valougeorgis, M. Rojas-Cárdenas, L. Baldas, C. Barrot, S. Colin, Thermally driven pumps and diodes in multistage assemblies consisting of microchannels with converging, diverging and uniform rectangular cross sections, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 24:54, 2020.
  • D. Valougeorgis, M. Vargas, S. Naris, Analysis and guidelines on gas separation, conductance and equivalent single gas approach for binary gas mixture expansion through a short tube into vacuum, Vacuum, 128, 1-8, 2016.
  • C. Tantos, D. Valougeorgis, A. Frezzotti, Conductive heat transfer in rarefied polyatomic gases confined between parallel plates via various kinetic models and the DSMC method, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 88, 636-651, 2015.
  • S. Varoutis, Oleg Sazhin, D. Valougeorgis, F. Sharipov, Rarefied gas flow through short tubes into vacuum, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 26 (2), 228-238, 2008.
  • S. Naris, D. Valougeorgis, The driven cavity flow over the whole range of the Knudsen number, Physics of Fluids, 17, 097106, 2005.

Recent Research Programmes:

  • European Programme of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion (EUROfusion)
  • National Programme of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion (ΕΠΕΘΣ)

Spyros A. Karamanos

Spyros A. Karamanos

(Dip. '89 Civil Eng. NTUA, MSc '91 in Structural Engineering και PhD '93 in Structural Mechanics, Dept. Civil Eng., The University of Texas at Austin, ΗΠΑ)

Professor of Computational Methods - Finite Elements in Structures. He has 30 years of research and professional experience in structural analysis, design, and structural integrity of energy infrastructure for hydrocarbons and renewable energy sources. He specializes in the structural analysis and design of tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, hydrocarbon and water transportation pipelines, and offshore structures. In recent years, his research has focused on the analysis/design of pipelines (hydrocarbons and water) against seismic actions and other geo-hazards, and the structural behavior of marine structures for wind and wave energy production.

Indicative Publications:

  • Chatzopoulou, G. and Karamanos, S. A., “Numerical Implementation of Bounding-Surface Model for Simulating Cyclic Inelastic Response of Metal Piping Components”, Finite Elements in Analysis & Design, Vol. 185, Article 103493, March 2021.
  • Chatziioannou, K., Huang, Y., Karamanos, S. A., “Simulation of Cyclic Loading on Pipe Elbows using Advanced Plane-Stress Elasto-plasticity Models”, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 143, Article 021501, April 2021.
  • Gavriilidis, I. and Karamanos, S. A., “Structural response of steel lined pipes under cyclic bending”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 234-235, article 111245, January 2022.
  • Keil, B. D., Fappas, D., Gobler, F., Sarvanis, G. C., Chatzopoulou, G., Lucier, G., Mielke, R. D., Karamanos, S. A., “A New Concept for Improving the Structural Resilience of Lap-Welded Steel Pipeline Joints”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 171, article 108676, February 2022.
  • Antoniou, K., Stamou, A. G., Karamanos, S. A., Palagas, C., Tazedakis, A., Dourdounis, E., “Finite element modeling of the JCO-E line pipe fabrication process; material properties and collapse pressure prediction”, Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 192, article 111120, November 2023.
  • Papatheocharis, T., Plakias, G. T., Zervaki, A. D., Perdikaris, P. C., Karamanos, S. A., “Ultimate Strength and Fatigue of Stiffened Welded Tubular Joints in Floating Energy Production Structures”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 297, article 116985, December 2023.
  • Karvelas, C. G., Chatzopoulou, G., Zervaki, A. D., Karamanos, S. A., Strepelias, E., Palios, X., Bousias, S. N., Mechanical Response of an Industrial Piping System Under Strong Cyclic Loading, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, ASME, Vol. 145, No. 6, article 061502, December 2023.
  • Gavriilidis, I., Stamou, A. G., Palagas, C., Dourdounis, E., Voudouris, N., Tazedakis, A., Karamanos, S. A., “Heat treatment effects on collapse of JCO-E steel pipes under external pressure: experiments and numerical predictions”, Marine Structures, Vol. 93, article 103536, January 2024.

Alexis Kermanidis

Alexis Kermanidis

(Civil Engineering Diploma, University of Patras (1996), PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Patras (2003))

Associate Professor Mechanical Behaviour of Metallic Materials.

Indicative Publications:

  •        P. V. Petroyiannis, A. T. Kermanidis, E. Kamoutsi, Sp. G. Pantelakis, V. Bontozoglou, and G. N. Haidemenopoulos, “Evidence on the corrosion induced hydrogen embrittlement of the 2024 aluminum alloy”, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 28, pp. 565-574, 2005.
  •        A. T. Kermanidis, P. V. Petroyiannis and Sp. G. Pantelakis, “Fatigue and damage tolerance behaviour of corroded 2024 T351 aircraft aluminum alloy”, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 43, pp. 121-132, 2005.
  •        A. Tzamtzis and A. T. Kermanidis, “Improvement of fatigue crack growth resistance by controlled overaging in 2024-T3 aluminium alloy” Fatigue Fract Engng Mater Struct 00 (2014), 1–13.
  •        P.I. Christodoulou, A.T. Kermanidis, D. Krizan, "Fatigue behavior and retained austenite transformation of Al-containing TRIP steels", International Journal of Fatigue, 91 (2016) 220–231
  •        A.T. Kermanidis, P. I. Christodoulou, E. Hontzopoulos, G.N. Haidemenopoulos, H. Kamoutsi, A.D. Zervaki, Mechanical performance of laser spot-welded joints in Al-Al/Cu solar thermal absorbers, Materials & Design, 155 (2018), 148-160
  •        Maria-Ioanna T. Tzini, John S. Aristeidakis, Peter I. Christodoulou, Alexis T. Kermanidis, Gregory N. Haidemenopoulos, Daniel Krizan, Multi-phase field modeling in TRIP steels: Distributed vs. average stability and strain-induced transformation of retained austenite, Materials Science and Engineering A, 833, (2022), 142341

Recent Research Collaborations:

  •    «Corrosion Susceptibility, Degradation and Protection of Advanced Al-Li Aluminium Alloys» - CorLi , Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Participants: University of Aegean, university of Thessaly, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Budget: 199750 Euros, 2023-2025.

 

  •    «Μελέτη Σχεδιασμός και Κατασκευή μονοθέσιου Αγωνιστικού Αυτοκινήτου». Συντονιστής Καθηγητής της φοιτητικής ομάδας «Centaurus Racing Team» που συμμετέχει στον παγκόσμιο φοιτητικό διαγωνισμό FSAE, 2011-σήμερα

Vasilis Bontozoglou

Vasilis Bontozoglou

(Dipl. 1982 Chemical Engineering, AUth, MSc 1986 και PhD 1988, Department of Chemical Engineering., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ΗΠΑ)

Professor of Transport Phenomena and Physical Process Devices. He has 35 years of research and professional experience in the experimental, computational, and theoretical analysis of flow and heat/mass transfer phenomena, as well as in the design of corresponding devices. He specializes in two-phase flow, and his research focuses on interface dynamics across multiple scales (gravitational, viscous, and capillary forces, and the effect of surfactants). In recent years, he has also been involved in the analysis and simulation of airflow and particle transport phenomena in the lungs.

Indicative Publications:

  • S. Chakraborty, P.-K. Nguyen, V. Bontozoglou and C. Ruyer-Quil, 2014 Extreme solitary waves on falling liquid films. J. Fluid Mech., 745, 564-591
  • A. Katsiavria and V. Bontozoglou 2020 Stability of liquid film flow laden with the soluble surfactant Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate: Predictions versus data. J. Fluid Mech., 894, Α18
  • K. Bouchoris and V. Bontozoglou 2021 A model of lung surfactant dynamics based on intrinsic interfacial compressibility. Colloids & Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp., 624, 126839
  • K. Bouchoris and V. Bontozoglou 2022 Surfactant-laden film lining an oscillating cap: Problem formulation and weakly nonlinear analysis. J. Fluid Mech., 944, A50
  • K. Vogiatzoglou, C. Papadimitriou, K. Ampountolas, M. Chatzimanolakis, P. Koumoutsakos and V. Bontozoglou 2024 An interpretable wildfire spreading model for real-time predictions. J. Comp. Science, 102435
  • Livanos, A., Bouchoris, K., Aslani, K. E., Gourgoulianis, K., & Bontozoglou, V. 2024 Prediction of shear stress imposed on alveolar epithelium of healthy and diseased lungs. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 1-15

Recent Research Collaborations:

  • Imperial College, Dept. of Mathematics (Prof. Demetrios Papageorgiou)
  • University of Savoie-Mont Blanc (Prof. Christian Ruyer-Quil)
  • Ιατρική Σχολή Παν. Θεσσαλίας, Πνευμονολογική Κλινική (Καθ. Κων/νος Γουργουλιάνης)

Emmanouil Bouzakis

Emmanouil Bouzakis

(Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (2002), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dr.-Ing. (2008), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Associate Professor of Manufacturing Processes. He specializes in the experimental and computational analysis of cutting processes, gear manufacturing and additive manufacturing. His research focuses on the development and testing of hard thin coatings (PVD, CVD) for tooling applications.

 

Indicative Publications:

  • Bouzakis, K.-D., Gökcen, M.-G., Bouzakis, E., Bouzakis, A., Ipekoglu M., Osmanoglu, E., Batuk, A.-U., 2024. Extracting information from the cutting force signal to explain and exploit its discrepancy between up and down slot milling at the same chip thickness. Journal of Materials Processing Technology 331, 118492.
  • Bouzakis, E., Arvanitidis, A., Kazelis, F., Maliaris, G., Michailidis, N., 2020. Comparison of Additively Manufactured vs. Conventional Maraging Steel in Corrosion-Fatigue Performance after Various Surface Treatments. Procedia CIRP 87, 469-473.
  • Bouzakis, E., 2020. Fatigue Endurance Assessment of DLC Coatings on High-Speed Steels at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures by Repetitive Impact Tests. Coatings 10/6, 547.
  • Bouzakis, K.-D., Charalampous, P., Kotsanis, T., Skordaris, G., Bouzakis, E., Denkena, B., Breidenstein, B., Aurich, J. C., Zimmermann, M., Herrmann, T., M’Saoubi, R., 2017. Effect of HM substrates’ cutting edge roundness manufactured by laser machining and micro-blasting on the coated tools’ cutting performance. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology 18, 188-197.
  • Bouzakis, E., Bouzakis, K.-D., Skordaris, G., Charalampous, P., Kombogiannis, S., Lemmer O., 2014. Fatigue strength of diamond coating-substrate interface assessed by inclined impact tests at ambient and elevated temperatures. Diamond and Related Materials 50, 77-85.
  • Klocke, F., Gorgels, C., Bouzakis, E., Stuckenberg, A., 2009. Tool life increase of coated carbide tools by micro blasting. Production Engineering - Research and Development 3/4-5, 453-459.

Recent Research Programmes:

  • Digital Design and Advanced Manufacturing. 2024-present. Collaboration with A. Kontsos, Digital Engineering Hub, Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, Rowan University, Glasboro, NJ 08028, USA.

Costas Papadimitriou
  

Costas Papadimitriou

(PhD 1990 California Institute of Technology, USA)

Professor of Structural Dynamics.

Indicative Publications:

Recent Research Programmes:

  • Health Monitoring of Smart Bridges, OSMOS Hellas SA, 2024
  • Digital Twins for Condition Monitoring of Complex Engineering Networks, Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (Program: Scholarship for PhD Candidates), April 2022-March 2025.

Athanasios Papathanasiou

Athanasios Papathanasiou

(Diploma in Chemical Engineering, NTUA (1985), M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada (1987), Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Canada (1991))

Professor of Multi Scale Composites and 2D materials; Manufacturing; Structure/Property Correlations in fibrous and flake composites

My research interests within the framework of ADES relate to the design of microstructure of insulating composite materials (heat shielding materials), as well as the design and analysis of the thermal performance of composite materials based on phase change materials (PCM) to reduce energy needs in heating and cooling buildings.

Indicative Publications:

  • T.D. Papathanasiou, M. Diakonikolis and A. Tsiantis, “A Gradient Microstructure Improves the Barrier Properties of Flake-Filled Composite Films: A Computational Study”, Materials, 16, 1691, 2023
  • T.D. Papathanasiou, A. Tsiantis and Y. Wang, “A Novel Method for the Determination of the Lateral Dimensions of 2D Rectangular Flakes”, Materials, 15, 1560, 2022
  • A. Tsiantis, Y. Wang, X. Huang, T.D. Papathanasiou, “From flakes to ribbons: The barrier factor of composites containing flakes of rectangular shape”, Journal of Composite Materials, 56(2), 181-198, 2022
  • A. Dobri, A. Tsiantis, T.D. Papathanasiou, Y. Wang, “Investigation of transient heat transfer in multi-scale PCM composites using a semi-analytical model”, International Journal of Heat and Μass Transfer, 175, 121389, 2021
  • A. Tsiantis and T.D. Papathanasiou, “A general scaling for the barrier factor of composites containing layered flakes of square, circular and hexagonal shape”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 157, 119962, 2020
  • E.G. Karvelas, A. Tsiantis and T.D. Papathanasiou, "Effect of Micropolar Fluid Properties on the Hydraulic Permeability of Fibrous Biomaterials", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 185, 1050135,  doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105135, 2020
  • A. Tsiantis and T.D. Papathanasiou, “ A novel FastRSA algorithm: Statistical Properties and Evolution of Microstructure”, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 534, 122083, doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.122083, 2019
  • X. Chen and T.D. Papathanasiou, “The transverse permeability of disordered fiber arrays: A statistical correlation in terms of the mean interfiber spacing”, Transport in Porous Media, 71(2), 233-251, 2007

 

Nikos Pelekasis

Nikos Pelekasis

(Dip. 1986 Dep. Chemical Engineering NTUA, Ph.D. 1991, Dpt. Chemical Engineering, State University of New York Buffalo, Buffalo NY, USA)

Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has 35 years of research and professional experience in theoretical and computational analysis of flow systems with simultaneous heat and mass transfer. He specializes in studying flows with moving and/or deforming surfaces in the presence of viscous, viscoelastic, and field (gravitational/electromagnetic) forces. He has developed computational and theoretical tools for the analysis of the acoustic signature of microbubbles with an elastic shell applied to targeted drug delivery, and for the magnetohydrodynamic stability of thin layers of liquid metals applied to the coating and thermal protection of plasma reactors.

Indicative Publications:

  • The compression-only behavior of coated microbubbles in a wall restricted flow, M.Vlachomitrou, & N. Pelekasis,  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 155 (1), January 2024.
  • Numerical study of the steady core-annular flow in a focusing geometry in the presence of soluble surfactants,  A. Lytra, M.Vlachomitrou, & N. Pelekasis,  Int. J. Mult Flow,   170 (2024) 104652.
  • Compression only behavior: Effect of prestress and shell rheology on bifurcation diagrams and parametric stability of coated microbubbles in an unbounded flow,  Pelekasis, Vlachomitrou & Lytra, Phys. Rev. Fluids  7, 113601 (2022) .
  • Dynamic simulations of an encapsulated microbubble translating in a tube at low Capillary and Reynolds numbers,  M.Vlachomitrou, A. Lytra & N. Pelekasis, J Eng Math: (2021) 129:8.
  • N. Pelekasis, L. Benos, (2017), Static Arrangement of a Capillary Porous System (CPS): Modelling, Fusion Eng. and design  117, 180-187.

Recent Research Programmes:

  • Numerical/theoretical investigation of the fabrication process of lipid coated microbubbles with a flow focusing micro-fluidic device, YOUNG INVESTIGATORS INITIATIVE - SPECIAL SECRETARIAT FOR STRUCTURAL PROGRAMS (2020-2021)
  • Modelling activities of liquid metal plasma facing components for the power exhaust of plasma reactors, EUROFUSION: EURATOM WPDTT1-LM5 (2014-2022)

Konstantinos Ritos

Konstantinos Ritos

(Dip. 2009 Dpt. Mechanical Engineering UTH, Ph.D. 2014, Dpt. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyce, Glasgow, UK)

Assi. Professor Compressible Aerodynamics - Turbomachinery, Director of MSc ADES.

 

Indicative Publications:

Recent Research Collaborations:

  • University of Strathclyde, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (Dr W. Dempster)
  • University of Strathclyde, Advanced Forming Research Centre (Dr S. Rahimi)
  • University of Nicosia, Department of Engineering (Prof. D. Drikakis)
  • University of Rouen - Normandy, CORIA Lab (Prof. T. Dbouk)

Tasos Stamatellos

Tasos Stamatellos

(Dip. '84 Mechanical Engineering AUTh, Doctor of Mechanical Engineering '88 AUTh)

Professor of Internal Combustion Engines. He has 35 years of research and professional experience in the study, design, and optimization of energy systems across various applications. He specializes in laboratory and computational (using CFD and in-house software) support for the design of vehicle engines, marine engines, supercharging systems, and their emissions control. Additionally, he has developed significant activity in the study and modeling of building operation and their energy systems, as well as photovoltaic systems for evaluating and diagnosing their energy performance and supporting optimal design.

Indicative Publications:

  • Roumpakias, E.; Stamatelos, T. Comparative Performance Analysis of a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Plant in Central Greece after Several Years of Operation Using Neural Networks. Sustainability 2023, 15, 8326. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108326
  • Stamatellos, G.; Stamatelos, T. Short-Term Load Forecasting of the Greek Electricity System. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 2719. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13042719
  • Roumpakias, E.; Stamatelos, T. Health Monitoring and Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Systems in Central Greece Using Artificial Neural Networks. Sci. 2022, 12, 12016. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122312016
  • Stamatellos, G.; Stamatelos, T. Effect of Actual Recuperators’ Effectiveness on the Attainable Efficiency of Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycles for Solar Thermal Power Plants. Energies 2022, 15, 7773. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15207773
  • Stamatellos, G.; Zogou, O.; Stamatelos, A. Energy Analysis of a NZEB Office Building with Rooftop PV Installation: Exploitation of the Employees’ Electric Vehicles Battery Storage. Energies 2022, 15, 6206. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176206
  • Foteinos, A. Papazoglou, N. P. Kyrtatos, T. Stamatelos, O. Zogou, A.–M. Stamatellou: A Three-Zone Scavenging Model for Large Two-Stroke Uniflow Marine Engines using Results from CFD Scavenging Simulations. May 2019, Energies 12(9) DOI: 10.3390/en12091719

Panagiotis Tsiakaras

Panagiotis Tsiakaras

(PhD 1992 University of Patras)

Professor of Energy Conversion Systems: Catalysis, Electocatalysis and Fuel Cells engineering

Indicative Publications:

  • Layered Double Hydroxides with Carbonate Intercalation as Ultra‐Stable Anodes for Seawater Splitting at Ampere‐Level Current Density, PJ Deng, Y Liu, X Li, J Lu, S Jing, P Tsiakaras, Advanced Energy Materials, 2400053, 2024

  • Strategies for Tuning Tensile Strain and Localized Electrons in a Mo‐Doped NiCoCu Alloy for Enhancing Ampere‐Level Current Density HER Performance, G Qian, Y Wang, L Li, M Lu, C Chen, Z Wei, P Tsiakaras, Advanced Functional Materials, 2404055, 2024

  • Photo-induced CO2 cycloaddition and tetracycline degradation over novel FeOx modified defective graphitic carbon nitride composite, R Cheng, J Ren, H Wang, H Liang, P Tsiakaras, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy 352, 124024, 2025

  • Electrochemical production of ammonia: nitrate reduction over novel Cu-Ni-Al metallic glass nanoparticles used as highly active and durable catalyst, Y Liu, S Niu, Y Zou, S Huang, Y Shi, S Gao, P Tsiakaras, Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy, 124729, 2025

  • Recent advances in metal-free photosensitizers for dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical cells, XL Wang, JF Huang, JM Liu, P Tsiakaras, Coordination Chemistry Reviews 522, 216143, 2025

Recent Research Collaborations:

  • Laboratory of Electrochemical Devices Based on Solid Oxide Proton Electrolytes, Institute of High Temperature Electrochemistry (RAS), Yekaterinburg 620990, Russia

  • Chemical Engineering Department, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg 620002, Russia

  • Institute of Advanced Energy Technologies “Nicola Giordano”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR-ITAE, Via Salita Santa Lucia sopra Contesse, 98126 Messina, Italy

  • School of Information and Control Engineering & School of Materials Science and Physics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China

  • Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Energy Materials, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004 China

  • The Key Lab of Low-Carbon Chemistry & Energy Conservation of Guangdong Province, PCFM Lab, School of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

  • Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), H-12, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan

Gregory Haidemenopoulos

Gregory Haidemenopoulos

(Mechanical Eng. AUTh 1982, MSc Ocean Engineering, MIT, 1985, MSc Metallurgy, MIT, 1985, PhD Metallurgy, MIT, 1988)

Professor of Physical Metallurgy. Research Activities: Computational design of metallic alloys with applications in the automotive industry, oil and gas pipelines, aerospace industry, and marine constructions. Specifically: TRIP, HSLA, Dual-Phase, and MMnS steels. Aluminum alloys of series 2xxx, 5xxx, and 6xxx. Magnesium alloys. Welding and additive processes.

Indicative Publications:

  • John S. Aristeidakis, G.N. Haidemenopoulos, Constitutive and transformation kinetics modeling of ε, α΄- martensite and mechanical twinning in steels containing austenite, Acta Materialia, 228, 117757, 2022.
  • John S. Aristeidakis, Gregory N. Haidemenopoulos, Ruben Bjorge, Calin D. Marioara, Helen Kamoutsi, Evangelos Giarmas and Nikolaos Rafailidis, Microstructural Evolution in a 6060 Extrudable Al-Alloy: Integrated Modeling and Experimental Validation, Materials, 17, 545, 2024.
  • Kamoutsi, G.N. Haidemenopoulos, H. Mavros, C. Karantonidis, P. Floratos, Z. Alhosani, P. Cho, D.H. Anjum, F. Ravaux, K. Polychronopoulou, Effect of precipitate coherency on the corrosion-induced hydrogen trapping in 2024 aluminum alloy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46 (69) 34487-34497, 2021
  • Maria-Ioanna T. Tzini and Gregory N. Haidemenopoulos, A physically-based mean-field model for strain-induced precipitation and recrystallization in high-strength low-ally steels, Steel Research International 96, 2400493, 2025.

Recent Research Programmes:

  • Optimization of extrudability and tensile mechanical properties of a 6060 aluminum alloy . Funding: ALUMIL SA. The project aims at the design of appropriate heat treatment of homogenization and artificial aging, in order to optimize extrudability and mechanical properties in a 6060 aluminum alloy.
  • Optimization of homogenization treatment in fully recycled aluminum alloys. Funding EPALME-METLEN Energy and Metals. The project aims at developing homogenization treatments to take into account impurity elements present in fully recycled aluminum alloys.

Georgios Charalampous

Georgios Charalampous

(Mechanical Engineering Diploma, AUTh, 1999, MSc Imperial College 2000, PhD Imperial College 2009)

Associate Professor of thermofluid Processes with Energy Applications. His activity focuses on experimental research of energy applications, such as fuel injection, spraying, combustion, mixing, flows with particles/droplets, as well as the development of new measurement techniques using optical methods with an emphasis on optically dense flows, such as the LIF/Mie technique for droplet size measurement and optical connectivity techniques.

Indicative Publications:

  • Andrade, P., Hardalupas, Y., Charalampous G., (2022) “Study of preferential concentration in turbulent flows using combined graph theory and Voronoï analysis“, Physics of Fluids, 34: 051704

    Charalampous, G., Hadjiyiannis, C., and Hardalupas, Y., (2019) “Proper orthogonal decomposition of primary breakup and spray in co-axial airblast atomizers”, Physics of Fluids, 31: 043304

    Sung, Y., Charalampous G. , Hardalupas Y. and Choi G. (2017) "Laser ignition and flame characteristics of pulsed methane jets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence without mean flow" Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 36(2): 1653-1660

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