Speaker's and Contributor's Biographies

• Panagiotis Angelopoulos, NTUA
• Dr. Christodoulos Fragoudakis, NTUA
• Johannes Heydenreich, PhilonNet
• Avraam Keisoglou, eta Inc.
• Dr. Fotis Konias, UOWM
• Prof. Sotirios Natsiavas, AUTH
• Dr. Stefano Odorizzi, EnginSoft
• Prof. Christopher Provatidis, NTUA
• Dr. Georg Scheuerer, ANSYS Europe
• Stavroula Stefanatou, PhilonNet
• Prof. Antonis Tourlidakis, UOWM
• Ilias Tourlomousis, NTUA
• Dr. Andreas Vlahinos, aes / PhilonNet

received his Diploma from the School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering in 2007. He is currently working on his PhD on "Development of technology for production of expanded perlite microspheres" in the Laboratory of Metallurgy of NTUA.

obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2007. His research interests include Computational Geometry and the application of open source technologies in higher education. Since 2004 he worked as a teaching assistant and as a short term assistant professor in Computational Geometry classes in National University of Athens. Since 2001 he works as a network and systems administrator at the Computer Center in NTUA.

• 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

• 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

Date of Birth: January 1st, 1982, in Cologne W. Germany.
Diploma in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING from University of Western Macedonia in Greece (2004).
PhD in "Computational Analysis of Two-Phase Flow in Low-Pressure Steam Turbines" from the same department (2009).
Research interests: CFD, design modeling, turbomachinery, two-phase flow, renewable energy sources, thermoelectric stations, energy production optimization, precipitation processes

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.

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. Currently, he is the Head of the Rapid Prototyping & Inverse Design Laboratory.

He has supervised over 120 MSc theses and has completed the supervision of eight PhD theses. He has published over 85 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.

In March 2011, he was elected as an Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Class VI: Technical and Environmental Sciences), of which the headquarters is in Salzburg, Austria.

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

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece. He received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his PhD from the School of Mechanical Engineering of Cranfield University, UK. Subsequently he developed his research and academic career at Cranfield until 2003 when he moved to Greece to undertake his current position. Dr Tourlidakis was involved into a large number of research projects which dealt with the research, development and application of numerical modeling techniques for the aerodynamic design and analysis of fluid machinery. His current research interests are unsteady flow prediction in turbomachinery, multistage axial flow compressors, 3-D turbomachinery design optimisation using genetic algorithms, aerodynamic noise prediction methods in rotating systems etc.

Degrees:

• Graduate of Technological Mechanical Engineering Institute (TEI 1991-1994 Kozani).
• Graduate of Mechanical Engineer, National Technological Institude of Athens, NTUA 1995-2002
• Msc. in Computational Mechanics, School of Chemical Engineering, NTUA 2005-2007.
• Msc. in Applied Mechanics, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, NTUA 2006-2008.
• PhD candidate since January 2008 supported by Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences school of NTUA and concerns the mechanics of composite materials. (Doctorate Thesis in 'Numerical modeling of fractured sandwich beams under various type of loading').

Work experience:

• TURBOMED (2010-now)
• HELLENIC AEROSPACE INDUSTRY (2009-2010)
• GR-INOX Grekis Company (2008-2009)
• HELLENIC-SHIPYARDS of Skaramagas (2003-2008)
• INTRAKOM (1999-2001)
• OLYMPIC-TOOL HELLAS (1st Period:1994-1999, 2nd Period: 2001-2003)

• 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.