Speaker's and Contributor's Biographies

• Nicolas Charalambous, Hydrus Ltd.
• Prof. Maria Founti, NTUA
• Roger Grimes, LSTC
• Johannes Heydenreich, PhilonNet
• Dr. Dimitris Katsourinis, NTUA
• Avraam Keisoglou, eta Inc.
• Dr. Dionysios Kolaitis, NTUA
• Prof. Sotirios Natsiavas, AUTH
• Dr. Stefano Odorizzi, EnginSoft
• Dr. Zlatko Penzar, Continental Automotive GmbH
• Prof. Christopher Provatidis, NTUA
• Stavroula Stefanatou, PhilonNet
• Dr. Andreas Vlahinos, aes / PhilonNet

is an associate researcher of Hydrus Ltd based in Cyprus. He is involved with the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic design of the group. He received the Dipl.-Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2002) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received also a Masters Degree in Gas Turbine Technology from Cranfield University and now he is a Phd Student in the Mechanical Engineering Department in the University of Cyprus. His research interests are focused in the area of hydrodynamic and aerodynamic design of rotating machinery (pumps, compressors, turbines, fans) using CFD techniques. He was involved in industrial projects dealing with the design and efficiency deterioration of axial and centrifugal compressors under distorted flows in compressors and fans. He is currently involved in EU funded research projects dealing with design optimization techniques using CFD, aiming to reduce the erosion and corrosion problems of centrifugal pumps and propellers. Recently he has published the results of this research in the European Turbomachinery Conference held in Graz in 2009 and also in the ASME TurboExpo the previous year in Florida.

is Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering Section of the National Technical University of Athens and Director of the laboratory of Heterogeneous Mixtures and Combustion Systems. She has studied Nuclear and Mechanical Engineering and received her Ph.D. (1983) from Imperial College, London, on Heat Transfer and Combustion. She teaches Combustion theory and Systems, Heat and Mass transfer at undergraduate level, Energy saving and storage technologies and Computational methods in multi-phase, multi-component, reacting flows at post graduate level. She is regular reviewer to several international journals in related subjects. She has more than 150 publications in international journals and conferences and has supervised more than 60 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. She has managed and organised 25 EC and nationally funded projects, as scientific co-ordinator or as senior engineer. She has acted as external expert of the European Commission for project and framework programme monitoring

is a long time contributor to the solution of finite element problems. Prior to working for LSTC he worked for 21 years at Boeing where he was a member of a team that developed powerful sparse linear algebra algorithms and tools such as the Block Lanczos approach used throughout the FEA community for solving vibration and buckling problems. He has worked for 10 years at LSTC developing the Implicit Mechanics capabilities of LS-DYNA. He has also applied the computational tools developed for Implicit Mechanics for Thermal Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interaction. He has a Masters Degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

• Founding member and Vice President of PhilonNet, 2006-Present
• Sales Manager EMEA, Sun Microsystems, 1994-2005
• Sales Manager Europe, Evans & Sutherland, 1993-1994
• Sabatical 1992
• Sales Manager, Sun Microsystems, 1988 - 1991
• Civil engineering projects in Europe and the Middle East, 1981 - 1987
• Diploma in Civil Engineering, University of Stuttgart Germany, 1981

Chemical Engineer, M.Sc. Computational Methods, holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from NTUA. He has been working for the last ten years on computational fluid dynamics modelling of multi-phase, multi-component flows and reactive flows. He has 20 publications in international scientific journals and conferences and has participated in 4 EC funded projects. He is currently employed as permanent Post-doc Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Heterogeneous Mixtures and Combustion Systems of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.

• CEO of Cranes Engineering 2007-Present
• Founding Member, President of ETA, 1983-Present
• CAE Consultant, General Motors, 1981-1983
• CAE Manager, Chassis Systems, Ford Motor 1978-1981
• Project Engineer, Rockwell International 1976-1978
• Structural Engineer, Chrysler Corp 1970-1976
• Structural Engineering Degree, BS, Michigan State University, 1970

is post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Heterogeneous Mixtures and Combustion Systems of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from NTUA. He has been working for the last eleven years on Computational Fluid Dynamics modelling of multi-phase, multi-component and reactive flows. He has 43 publications in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences and is a reviewer in 5 international journals in the area of fluid dynamics and combustion. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Energy Technology Department of the Technological Educational Institution of Athens. He has participated in 13 research projects, funded by the E.C., the Greek government and industry.

Degrees:

• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, USA, 1987
• M.S. California Institute of Technology, USA, 1983
• Diploma Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1982

• 2001 - present Professor, Aristotle University, Greece
• 1997 - 2001 Associate Professor, Aristotle University, Greece
• 1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Aristotle University, Greece
• 1993 - 1994 Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA
• 1987- 1993 Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA
• June 1987 - Aug. 1987 Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Jan.1987 - June 1987 Instructor of Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
• Sept. 1982 - Jan. 1987 Research and Teaching Graduate Assistant, Caltech, USA

• Linear and Nonlinear Vibrations, Structural and Multi-body Dynamics, Vehicle Dynamics, Stability.

graduated in Civil Engineering in 1973, and then was a research worker at the University of Padova since 1976, where since 1984 he is in charge of the course on 'Construction Technologies', and more recently of the course on 'mechanics of continua' as well as of research activities in the area of CAE, iDP and related disciplines. Since 1984 he is also scientific co-coordinator and general manager of EnginSoft - which is a laboratory for technology transfer to the industry in the CAE sector, acknowledged by the Ministry of University and Research.

Activities and professional experiences can be referred to three main lines: research, vocational training, and professional work.

As to research - which is documented by more than 200 papers - a first phase was dedicated to basics in FE and simulation technologies, on subjects such as lagrangian formulation for oriented bodies, large displacement and large deformation problems, fully coupled formulations for porous media, FE algorithms (numerical integration schemes, smoothing algorithms, reduced integration, numerical dumping). More recently and today the research focus is more on manufacturing process simulation (with particular reference to metallurgy) and on multi-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization as well as MCDM and IT related problems. Since 1977 he was and is research project leader of a variety of projects funded by the European Commission, or by other Agencies/Bodies, including COMETT, CRAFT, BRITE-EURAM, MURST, EU-RTD (from fourth framework on). Moreover he is member of various associations, including ISOPE, ASM Europe, AICAP, AIM, ATA, NAFEMS as well as responsible for research lines in the main European networks of the sector, including MACSInet, FENET, INGENET, TECHNET and others.

As to vocational training, the attitude and constant commitment can be documented as follows: founder and general manager of the TCN consortium (www.consorziotcn.it), president of NAFEMS Italy (www.nafems.it), prime proposer and/or scientific co-coordinator of a variety of pilot projects (including 5 EC Leonardo da Vinci), technology partner of the MOPLE EC funded IT project for long-distance education, organizers of international conferences (from the 'first international conference on microcomputers in engineering' in 1984, to the 'TCN-CAE 2003 International Conference on CAE and computational technologies for industries' this year), editor of a number of primers (form the primer on "Introduzione al Metodo degli Elementi Finiti", ed. Pitagora, 1981, and "Metodi numerici per l'analisi dinamica delle strutture" , Ed. Pitagora, 1984, to the primer on "Numerical simulation of foundry processes", Ed. SGE,2001).

The professional experience is mainly related to the role covered in EnginSoft, and the activities of the company.

• Bachelor and Masters' in Physics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, as the best student of the generation.
• (During that time also repeatedly active as a visiting research student at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy and Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden).
• Ph.D. in Physics at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. The best possible, distinguished record: Summa cum laude (awarded to approx. 5% of the doctoral candidates at the University).
• Post-Doc at the Fritz-Haber-Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin under the guidance of Professors Walter Ekardt and the leadership of Professor Gerhard Ertl, the Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate in 2007. Research topics: Simulation of electronic properties of metal nano-clusters. (Fritz-Haber-Institute is probably the world's most famous institute for material surface science. So far eight members of the Institute have been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry or physics).
• 1991: Introduced the CAE methods in the Fuel Systems Division of the former VDO, a large automotive supplier company. Since then active as a CAE-specialist (presently Principal Expert) in all phases of the company evolution (Mannesmann, Siemens, and finally Continental Corporation).
• Invited and Keynote speaker at many international engineering conferences (Germany, UK, Italy, Switzerland, France, Sweden, USA, Japan).

In 1979, he received his Diploma Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.

In 1987, he received his PhD degree on 'Computer Methods in Engineering' from NTUA (his thesis concerned with the application of the Boundary Element Method in engineering, particularly in acoustics and elastodynamics). In addition, he became familiar with ANSYS since 1984. He has attended seminars on many computer codes such as: ABAQUS, ALGOR, ANSYS, BEASY, COSMOS/M, IDEAS, LS-DYNA, LUSAS, NASTRAN, PRO/ENGINEER, SOLIDWORKS. He has also occasionally worked with the following codes; ADINA, SCADA, DYTRAN.

Since 1978, he has programmed many boundary element and finite element academic codes in several languages such as Basic, Pascal, C++, Fortran IV, Fortran77, Fortran90, and recently in the Matlab environment.

In 1989 he was appointed as a lecturer at NTUA. Since then he has taught the following topics in undergraduate courses: Finite Elements-Fundamentals, Finite-Elements-Advanced (Programming), CAE systems, Lightweight structures, Biomedical Engineering & Biomechanics. He has also taught the following topics in MSc courses: CAD/CAE systems, Computational Elastodynamics, Computational Biomechanics, Human motion & Rehabilitation, Simulation in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Optimization, CAD/CAE integration.

In 2009 he was appointed as a full professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He is Head of the Biomechanics Unit within the 'Structures & Dynamics Laboratory'. Within the years 2005 and 2007, he served as a Vice-Chairman of the School of Mechanical Engineering at NTUA.

He has supervised over 120 MSc theses and has completed the supervision of eight PhD theses. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 200 Conference papers. He is Secretary General of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM) and Vice-president of the Hellenic Society of Biomechanics (ELEMBIO).

He has participated in over 30 European and national projects concerning many different engineering aspects, such as: machine design, crack propagation, boogie design, composite panels in automotive industry, structural optimization of PVC pipelines, refinery pipes (ASME codes), explosion modeling of natural gas pipes, fluid (acoustic)-structure interaction, textile mechanics, crane repair, computational orthodontics, dental implants, spine modeling, hip prosthesis modeling, inverse mechanics and fault diagnosis, shape and motion reconstruction, modeling signaling pathways in cartilage degeneration, and others.

holds a civil engineering degree from the University of Patras and is founder and General Manager of PhilonNet.

• PhD, Engineering Science & Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1984)
• Certificate, Structures Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (1981)
• MS, Engineering Science & Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology (1980)
• Diploma, Civil Engineering Structures Option, National Technical University of Athens Greece (1979)

Dr. Andreas Vlahinos is Principal of Advanced Engineering Solutions and partner of PhilonNet Engineering Solutions, a virtual resource for rapid new product development, and professor adjunct at CU-Boulder. Dr. Vlahinos received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a professor of structural engineering at the University of Colorado, teaching courses in Structural Mechanics and in Computer Aided Structural Engineering. Dr. Vlahinos was the recipient of the Professor of the Year Award multiple times. He has over 100 publications in areas of structural stability, structural dynamics, and design optimization. Additionally, he has received the R&D 100 award. Dr. Vlahinos has been instrumental in rapid product development through the implementation of Design For Six Sigma (DFSS) and Computer Aided Concurrent Engineering for several Government agencies such as NASA, NREL and DOE and industry partners such as IBM, Coors, Lockheed Martin, Alcoa, Allison Engine Comp., Solar Turbines, Ball, Futech, American Standard, Kohler, Varian, Stewart & Stevenson, Harris Corp., General Dynamics OTS, TDM, PTC, MDI, Ford Motor Company and others.