News

We are thrilled to share exciting news about a distinguished visitor who visited our campus last week. Professor Nazely Diban of Universidad de Cantabria, an expert in bioengineering, visited the University of West Attica (UNIWA). The visit provided a remarkable opportunity for our academic community to engage with Professor Diban’s wealth of knowledge and expertise. Special thanks to our postdocs George SofiadisCHRISTOS LIOSIS and Evangelos Karvelas for their active engagement!
20-7-2023 We are glad to announce that a member of our research team, Mr Christos Liosis, Ph.D. candidate has received the «Young Researcher Award» in the ICRAFMN-2023 Conference in India.  His research interests involve the study of particulate microfluid flow. He is author or co-author of more than 6 papers in international refereed journals and many in conference proceedings. He has more than 84 citations according to Scopus (h-index: 4). Congratulations Christos! Wishing many more awards to come in our team!
16-6-2023 We are glad to announce that a member of our research team, miss Kyriaki-Evangelia Aslani, Ph.D. candidate has received the «Most Performing Young Researcher Award» of ModTech Association for the year 2023. ModTech (Professional Association in Modern Manufacturing Technologies, Iasi-Romania, https://modtech.ro) focuses on the design-research-development-small production in engineering and organizes congresses, conferences, symposiums and workshops. Her research interests involve the study of machining performance using statistical methods, micropolar fluids, ferrohydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics and irreversible thermodynamics. She is author or co-author of more than 15 papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has more than 235 citations according to Scopus (h-index: 7).Congratulations Kyriaki! Wishing many more awards to come in our team!
28-1-2022 Our research collaborator George Sofiadis defended successfully his PhD! Congratulations Dr Sofiadis !!
17-5-2019 Two out of three projects of our team are selected for funding under the  EDBM scheme! Congratulations Vaggelis, Lefteris, Christos and Nikolas!!
 18-4-2019 Nikos Sterpis started his PhD in our team! We wish him all the best!!
7-2-2019 Stamatina Samiotis started her PhD in our team in the new Department of Mechanical Engineering of University of West Attica, Athens, Greece! We wish her all the best!!
5-2-2019 Our research collaborator Evangelos Karvelas defended successfully his PhD! Congratulations Dr Karvelas!!
27-3-2018 The new base of our team is now the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece!
23-02-2018 Video of the simulations of flapping foils by water waves for energy harvesting systems using openFOAM by N. Lampropoulos is added in: flapping-foils-from-water-waves
10-02-2018 H πρώτη συνάντηση της ομάδας για τη νέα χρονιά θα γίνει την Δευτέρα 12/2 στο συνηθισμένο χώρο του εργαστηρίου Μετάδοσης Θερμότητας. Θα έχουμε τα σύντομα σεμινάρια:

16:00-16:45: Γ. Σοφιάδης, «Αεροδυναμική μελέτη γύρω από 3D επιβατικό όχημα με χρήση DDES»
16:45-17:30: Ε. Καρβέλας, “Μαγνητικά σωματίδια για καταπολέμηση καρκινικών όγκων και καθαρισμό νερού”
17:30-18:00: Διάλειμμα για καφέ
18:00-18:45: Κ. Βασιλόπουλος. “ΠΡΟΣΟΜΟΙΩΣΗ ΔΙΑΣΠΟΡΑΣ ΤΟΞΙΚΩΝ ΡΥΠΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΚΤΙΜΗΣΗ ΕΠΙΠΤΩΣΕΩΝ ΣΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΑΛΛΟΝ ΑΠΟ ΠΥΡΚΑΓΙΕΣ”
18:45-19:30: Ν. Λαμπρόπουλος, «Μελέτη βάσεων πλωτών ανεμογεννητριών με χρήση CFD»
(με τις συνήθεις καθυστερήσεις… 🙂

Στο τέλος θα γίνει μια γενική ενημέρωση και θα αναφερθούν ερευνητικές δράσεις και προγράμματα.

08-02-2018 Η πρότασή μας ‘MagnetoNanoTherapy’ έγινε δεκτή στην πρόσκληση  ‘5th Call for Production Projects Accessing ARIS’ και και θα λάβει πόρους (900,000 cpu-hs) στο σύστημα ARIS.
  19-01-2018 Congrats to our team member Dr Kostantinos Karamanos for receiving the annual award “G. Th. Fotinos” from the Athens Academy of Sciences for 2017 for his paper entitled: «Entropy production of entirely diffusional Laplacian transfer and the possible role of fragmentation of the boundaries» (Fractals, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2015). We wish Kostas all the best!

Συγχαρητήρια στο μέλος της ομάδας Δρ. Κωνσταντίνο Καραμάνο που τιμήθηκε με το ετήσιο βραβείο «Γ. Θ. Φωτεινός» της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών το 2017, για την εργασία του με τίτλο «Entropy production of entirely diffusional Laplacian transfer and the possible role of fragmentation of the boundaries» (Fractals, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2015). Η σχετική ανακοίνωση έχει δημοσιευτεί επίσης στο: http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/1306565/aponemithikan-ta-brabeia-tis-akadimias-athinon

Ευχόμαστε στον Κώστα Πολλές και Μεγαλύτερες Επιτυχίες στο μέλλον!