New research grant: «Structural Integrity of Offshore Renewable Energy Platforms_SIRENES» with code: 7041

Dr. Tzini assumed the role of Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT

Dr. George Saharidis was sworn in and assumed his duties as Lecturer of “Methods of Operations Research in Industrial Management” in the Department.

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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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