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Nikos Pelekasis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1963. He received his Engineering Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1991. From 1993 until 1994 he was a Research Associate at the Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics of the City College of the City University of New York. From 1997 until 2001 he was a Research Associate and a part time Lecturer at the Chemical Enineering Department of The University of Patras. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the Department of BioEngineering of the Technological University of Compiegne, France, at the Third Physical Institute of The University of Goettingen and at the Dpt. of Biomedical Engineering, the Institute for Materials and Processes of the University of Edinburgh and the Dpt. of Applied Mathematics of the Imperial College London. Since October 2001 he has been with the University of
Thessaly, Volos, Greece, where he currently is Professor of Computational Fluid
Dynamics and Director of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery
at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has also served as Director of
Graduate Studies (2011-2013) and Head of the Department (2013-2015). He teaches
courses in the areas of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid
Dynamics & Applied Mathematics at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels. He is a member of the European Society of Fluid Mechanics (EUROMECH),
the Greek Association for Computational Mechanics (GRACM), the Hellenic Society
for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the Hellenic Society for Rheology and
the Technical Chamber of Greece. His research interests include the areas of
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics and Theory
of Dynamical Systems, and cover a wide spectrum of applications ranging from the
dynamics of interfaces to magnetohydrodynamics and aerodynamics. In the past he has co-advised three Ph.D Dissertations
in the University of Patras and Technical University of Compiegne in the fields
of film and capsule dynamics with applications in aerodynamics and
biomechanics. During his tenure at the University of Thessaly he has
supervised six PhD Dissertations in the fields of: (a) Computational/theoretical study of the static and
dynamic response of coated microbubbles subject to acoustic disturbances, with
application to the development of novel techniques for medical imaging and
targeted drug delivery (b) Dynamic interaction between a liquid film that is
flowing on a solid surface due to shear from an external gas boundary layer,
with application in the deceleration of premature boundary layer separation of
airfoils at conditions of intense rainfall and (c) Magnetohydrodynamic stability of flows in close
conduits and porous media, in the presence of Lorentz, capillary, pressure and
adhesion forces, aiming at optimal heat
exhaust and protection of the first wall and divertor regions in fusion
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