Dimitris Dimopoulos and Angeliki Brouzgou were awarded PhD degrees by the Department.

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Associate Professor Spyros Karamanos gave in interview in the newspaper THESSALIA about his research activities in the area of structural engineering for the the transportation and storage of hydrocarbons.

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Professor George Liberopoulos is co-editor of a special issue of Annals of Operations Research (vol. 209, no. 1, 2013) on “Stochastic Models of Manufacturing and Service Systems Operations,” which was recently published.

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The Centaurus student team of the Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Thessaly won the first prize in the “Business Presentation” category in the International student competition Formula Student 2013

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Associate Professor Herricos Stpountzis is the Principal Investigator at UTh of a new research project entitled “UNAELCO: Unsteady aeroelastic control for multi-MW wind turbine rotors”.

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Articles in the local newspapers on the sucessfull public presentation in Volos of the single-seater formula SAE racing car by the student team “Centaurus” of the Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Professor Νikos Pelecasis was elected Chairman of the Department in the elections which took place on June 19. He will assume responsibility of his new administrative duties in September 2013.

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The Laboratory of Alternative Energy Conversion Systems was awarded for its voluntary participation in the ECOMOBILITY 2012-13 campaign.

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Professor Dimitris Valougeorgis is the Principal Investigator of a new research project entitled “Unsteady flow of binary gas mixtures into vacuum”.

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Professor Tassos Stamatelos was appointed Deputy Rector for Infrastructure and Technical Works at the University of Thessaly by the University Coucil, following the Rector’s proposal.

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Assistant Professor Dimitris Pandelis was tenured at the rank of Assistant Professor.

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Associate Professor Nikos Andritsos was promoted to the rank of Professor.

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Assistant Professor George Kozanidis is the Principal Investigator of a new research project

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Mr. Daniel Vasilikis was awarded a PhD degree by the Department.

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