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Professional Activities

 

1971 – Present

Chartered Engineer in Greece.

1989 – 1991

Associate Head of the Chemical Engineering Department. University of Patras, Greece.

1991 – 1993

Head of the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece.

1992 - Present

Member of the Board and founding member of Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM)

1992 – 1997

General Secretary of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM)

1993 – 1995

Associate Head of the Chemical Engineering Department. University of Patras, Greece.

1997 – 1999

Head, Division of  the  Physical  Processes and Environment Division of the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece.

1997 – 2001

Vice-president of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM).

1998

Member of the Greek National Board of Evaluators, Government Gasette No. 452, 12 May, 1998.

1999

National Coordinator of the theme “Environment” for the involvement of Greek entities in the Key Action “Aeronautics” Theme 3 of the 5th Framework Programme.

1999 – Present

Member of the ASME Greek Section Board of Directors

1999

Member of the National List of Evaluators (National Government Gassete) 

2001 – Present

President of the Greek Association of Computational  Mechanics (GRACM)

2002 – 2004

Member of the Regional Advisory Panel for Public Works of  Western Greece

European Community

1991

Expert to the GEOSCIENCE project of the "Non-nuclear Energies Programme (JOULE)" of the Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development, DG-XII, of the Commission of the European Communities.

1991 - 1994

National Representative of Greece to the  "Non-Nuclear Energies Programme (JOULE)" of the Directorate-General for Science, Research and Development, DG-XII, of the Commission of the European Communities.

1991 - 1992

Short-listed Individual Expert to the Directorate - General for Energy, DG-XVII, of the Commission of the European Communities for the Analysis and Evaluation of Proposals and Projects in the Energy Industry.

1991 - 1992

Member of the restricted list of the network of scientists for the European Wave Energy Pilot Study of the Directorate - General for Energy, DG-XVII, of the Commission of the European Communities.

1991 - Present

National Representative of Greece to the Working Party on Computer Aided Process Engineering of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.

1993

Member of the Working Group on "Industry University Relations - Fundamental Research" of the Industrial R&D Advisory Committee (IRDAC) of the European Commission.

1993 - 1995

European Commission: Member of the Working Group on Process Systems Engineering for the Efficient Use of Energy of the European Union

1993 - 1998

Representative of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics to the European Community on Computational Methods and Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) 2000

1995 - Present

European Commission: Member of the European Technology Assessment Network (ETAN)

1995 - 1998

Member of the List of Qualified Persons to Assist the Commission in the Areas Relating to European Community Research and Technological Development Programmes in the Fields of Non-Nuclear Energy, Sublist 1.

1996 - Present

European Commission: Member of the "Users Selection Panel"  for Access to Large-Scale Facilities (Danish Hydraulic Institute, HR Wellingford and Delft Hydraulics)

1996 - 1998

European Commission:  Member of the List of Qualified Persons to Assist the Commission in Areas Relating to the Programme of Research and Technological Development, Including Demonstration in the Field of Co-operation with Third Countries and Development Organisations in the Sublists A1, A2, B, C123 and ETU

 

International

1995 - Present

Member of the International Information Academy, Social-scientific NGO in Consultative Status (Category I) with the Economic and Social Council of United Nations

2000 - Present

Full member (Academician) of the International Academy of Technological Cybernetics (INNOVATICS), Russian Federation.

2002

Member of Nanoelectronics Network (NOE).

 

Associate Editor of Journals

1985 - 1987

"Journal of Energy Resources Technology", a Transaction Journal  of  the   American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

1986 - 1993

"Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering", a Transaction  Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

1995 - Present

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal "Technical Proceedings, Scientific Editions "  of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

 

Editor of  Proceedings 

1986

Co-editor of the Proceedings of the ASME. Fifth International Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering Conference, Volume III “Offshore Structures and Pipelines”, 1996, Tokyo, Japan.

1998

Co-Editor of the Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECCOMAS), 7-11 September 1998, Athens, Greece.

2001

Editor of the Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Noise Control (EURONOISE 2001), 14-17 January, 2001, Patras, Greece.

2002

Editor of the Proceedings of the Fourth GRACM Congress on Computational Mechanics (GRACM 2002), Patras, Greece, 27-29 June, 2002.

 

Conferences/Workshops

Member of the Organising Committee of the Congress on Computational Mechanics, Athens, Greece, 1-2 September, 1992. 

Member of the Scientific Committee of the ESCAPE 3 Conference, Gratz, Austria, 5-7 July, 1993.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Conference on Rational Use of Energy in Industrial Processes, Athens, Greece, 26-28 January, 1994. 

Member of the Organising Committee of the 4th Conference of the Greek Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Xanthi, Greece, 26-29 June 1995.

Member of the Organising Committee of the 1996 European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Paris, France, 9-13 September, 1996.

Member of Scientific Committee on Computational Fluid Dynamics of the 1996 European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Paris, France, 9-13 September, 1996

Member of the International Committee and Session Chairman of the First European Congress on Chemical Engineering, Florence, Italy, 4-7 May, 1997.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Conference on Active Control in Mechanical Engineering, Lyon, France, 22-23 October 1997.

Member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of PRES’ 98: 1st Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Organisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, August 23-28, 1998, Praha, Czech Republic.

Member of the Organising Committee and Session Chairman of the 5th National Congress on Mechanics, Ioannina, Greece, August 27-30, 1998.

ECCOMAS 98: Fourth Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, organised jointly by the Hellenic Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (HSTAM) and the Greek Association for Computational Mechanics (GRACM) Athens, Greece, September 7-11,  1998:

  • Co - Chairman

  • Member of the Scientific Committee.

  • Member of the Greek Organising Committee.

  • Minisymposium Organizer and Chairman.

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Third European Wave Energy Conference, September 30 - October 2, 1998, Patras, Greece. 

Member of the Organizing Committee and Session Chairman of the 8th IFAC-LSS ’98 Conference, 15-17 July, 1998, Patras, Greece

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fourth Italian Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, May 2-5, 1999, Florence, Italy.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Water Management, May 22-24, 1999, Tirana, Albania.

Member of the Organizing Committee and Session Chairman of the 3rd National Congress on Computational Mechanics, June 24-26, 1999, Volos, Greece.

Member of the International Scientific Committee and Session Chairman of the 2nd Conference on Process Integration, Modeling and Optimization for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction PRES’99, May 31 - June 2, 1999, Budapest, Hungary.

Member of the International Scientific Committee of the 3rd Conference on Process Integration, Modeling and Optimization for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction PRES 2000,27 – 31 August, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS 2000), September 11-14, 2000, Barcelona, Spain.

First International Conference on “Soft Shore Protection”, October 18- 21, 2000, Patras, Greece.

  • Member of the Organizing Committee

  • Member of the Advisory Committee

  • Session Chairman

Chairman and Organizer of the 4th European Conference on Noise Control “Euronoise2001”, January 14-17, 2001, Patras, Greece.

  • Programme Chairman

  • Conference Organizer

  • National and International Scientific Committees – Member

Organizer and Chairman of the Workshop of the ENOVNET Thematic Network, 15 January, 2001, Patras, Greece.

Member of the International Scientific Committee and Session Chairman of the 4th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES ’01), Florence, 20 – 23 May, 2001.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the First National Conference on “Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering” ASME International, Greek Section, September 17-20, 2001, Patras, Greece.

Member of the European Organizing Committee of the ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (ECCOMAS CFD2001), Swansea, UK, 4-7 September, 2001

Co-chairman and Session Chairman of the “Evolutionary Methods for Design, Optimization and Control with Application to Industrial Problems” (EUROGEN ’01) Conference, Athens, Greece, 19-21 September, 2001.

Chairman and Organizer of the 4th GRACM Congress on Computational Mechanics (GRACM 2002), Patras, Greece, 27-29 June, 2002.

  • Programme Chairman

  • Congress Organizer

  • National and International Scientific Committees – Member

Member of the Program Committee of the 7th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VII), Granada, Spain, 7-11 September, 2002.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 5th European Conference on Noise Control (EURONOISE 2003), Naples, IT, 19-21 May, 2003.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th Italian Conference on Chemical and Process  Engineering (IcheaP-6), Pisa, IT, 8-11 June, 2003.

Member of the Scientific Committee of International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET3), Nottingham, U.K., 8-30 June,  2004

Member of the Scientific Committee on Computational Mathematics and Numerical Methods, of the ECCOMAS 4th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2004), Jyvaskyla, FI, 24-28 July, 2004.

Chairman and Organizer of the 1rst International Conference “From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering ”(1st IC-SCCE). Athens, Greece,8-10 September, 2004.

  • Programme Chairman

  • Conference  Organizer

  •  National and International Scientific Committees – Member

Member of the Program Committee of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII). Birmingham, U.K, 18-22 September, 2004. 

Member of the International Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference of RSA on Sound and Vibration (RSA), Bucharest, Romania, 14-17 October, 2004.

 Member of the International Scientific Committee of ESCAPE 15,  Barcelona,  Spain, 29 May- 1 June,  2005.

 Member of the International Scientific Committee of ICheaP-7, Taormina/Giardini di Naxos,  Italy, 15-18, June,  2005.

 Member of the Scientific Committee of 5th GRACM Congress on Computational Mechanics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 29 June-1 July,  2005

Chairman and Organizer of the 1rst International Conference on Experiments/Process/Systems Modelling/ Simulation/ Optimization(1st IC-EpsMsO). Athens, Greece,6-9 July,  2005.

  • Programme Chairman

  • Conference  Organizer

  • National and International Scientific Committees – Member


Contribution to Book

  • “Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science”, edited by K.Miettinen, M. Makena,P.Neittaanmaki & J. Periaux, PART III Industrial Applications.

  • 18 Optimization of an Active Noise Control System inside an Aircraft, Based on the Simultaneous Optimal Positioning of Microphones and Speakers, with the Use of a Genetic Algorithm. Z.G.Diamantis, D.T.Tsahalis and I. Bochers. Pages 399 –410.

Reviewer

  • Journal of Fluids Engineering

  • Journal of Society of Petroleum Engineers-American Institute of Mining

  • USA Sea Grant Program

  • Journal of Applied Mechanics

  • Journal of the American Society of Civil Engineers

  • Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering" of the ASME,

  • Scientific Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

  • Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME.

  • Journal of Sound and Vibration

Proposal Evaluator

  • General Secretariat for Research & Technology, Athens, Greece.  Proposals on:

    • Greek - German R&D Cooperation,

    • Development of Industrial Research,

    • Development of Industrial Facilities.

  • European Commission. Third, Fourth and Fifth Framework Programmes

    • Brite-Euram

    • Growth

    • TACIS , Energy Sector

    • DG RTD Energy

    • INTAS

Honorary Mentions

1976 - 1977 

Cited in the 15th Edition of the Who’s Who in the South and Southwest.

1979

Cited in the 14th Edition of the American Men & Women of Science, Volume VII.

1980

Cited in the Dictionary of International Biography, Volume Sixteen.

1982

Cited in the Third Edition of Who’s Who in Technology Today, Mechanical, Civil & Earth Science Technologies, Volume 2.

1986

Cited in the Fifth Edition of Who’s Who in Technology, Volume 2.

1993 - 1994

Cited in the Who’s Who “Condensed Biographical Journal”.

1996

Cited in the 13th Edition of Who’s Who in the World.

1998

Cited in the 16th Edition of Who’s Who in the World.

1998

Cited in the forthcoming 16th Edition of Marquis Who’s Who

1999

Cited in the Who’s Who in Greece