Professor A. Liakopoulos, Department of Civil Engineering University of Thessaly.

Professional Experience

Director, Hydromechanics and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, 2004- present
Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, 2002- 2006
Acting chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, 1998- 2000
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, 1998- present
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1998
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1992-1998
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1988-1992
CFD Group Leader, System Dynamics, 1987-1988
Research Engineer, System Dynamics, 1983-1987
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1982-1983

Honors

CEAS Award, Lehigh University, 1997
ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, 1996
Ruth and Joel Spira Award, Lehigh University, 1991
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Florida, 1983
Hellenic Mathematical Society Award, 1972

Biographical

Dr. A. Liakopoulos is Professor at the University of Thessaly in Greece, and director of the Hydromechanics and Environmental Engineering Laboratory. Before joining University of Thessaly, Dr. Liakopoulos served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania, USA. His primary research interests are: transition to turbulence, nonlinear dynamics, modeling of complex environmental processes and applications of nano-science and nano-technology to environmental problems.
Dr. Liakopoulos received his undergraduate degree at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his graduate degrees at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. After graduation, Dr. Liakopoulos joined System Dynamics (SDI) as a research engineer responsible for aerodynamic modeling, computational fluid dynamics, stochastic modeling, and computational aspects of simulations. He became SDI's Computational Fluid Dynamics Group Leader and, in this capacity, he supervised projects on computational methods for high Reynolds number external and internal flows, numerical grid generation, vectorization of computer codes, and development of parallel processing algorithms. Since joining Lehigh University, he has conducted research on transitional flows, interfacial instabilities, Galerkin methods for computational fluid dynamics, and application of image processing to fluid dynamics. His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, AT&T, GSRT (Greece), Ministry of Education (Greece) and industrial consortia.
Dr. Liakopoulos is the author of over seventy technical publications and co-editor of a volume on the Stability of Convective Flows published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is the recipient of five awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Lehigh University, University of Florida, and the Hellenic Mathematical Society. Nineteen graduate students have graduated with Dr. Liakopoulos as their major professor. He currently advises four Ph.D. students. Dr. Liakopoulos is a reviewer for Physics of Fluids, the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, the AIAA Journal, and the Journal of Fluids and Structures.
He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, the International Union
of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, the International Association for Hydraulic Research, Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi.

SERVICE

University of Thessaly

Member of the University Senate (2001 - 2006)
Member of the University Academic Development Committee (2002- 2008)
Member of the University Research Committee (2003-2008)

Lehigh University

Graduate Research Committee, Member (1996-1998)
Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee (1992-1996)
Representative to University Forum (1990- 1993)
Departmental Computer Equipment Committee, Member.

Technical Society Membership

Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Association for Hydraulic Research, Hellenic Hydrotechnical Association, Technical Chamber of Greece.

Technical Committee Membership

Fluid Mechanics Committee ASME (1992-1996)
Environmental Heat Transfer Committee (ASME, K - 19 committee, 1992-1996).

Reviewer for the following journals:

Physics of Fluids, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, AIAA Journal, Journal of Fluids and Structures, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging, Journal of Thermophysics, ASME Journal of Engineering for Industry, Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Reviewer of research proposals for:

National Science Foundation (USA), National Technical University of Athens, Technical University of Crete

Representative Invited Lectures/ Seminars

Low-dimensional Models of Transitional Convective Flows, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 22, 1996.

Low-dimensional Models of Transitional Flows, University of Maryland, College Park, April 26, 1996

Wavelet Techniques in Data Compression, DuPont Headquarters, Wilmington, Delaware, November 22, 1994

Convective Flows in Cavities and Vertical Channels, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 4, 1993

Instabilities in Extended Systems, Lehigh University, Physics Department, 1992.

Convective Flows in Cavities, Seminar, The Levich Institute, City University of New York, New York, December 10, 1991

Thermally Driven Flows in Enclosures, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, April 11, 1991

Thermally Driven Flows in Enclosures, Aluminium Company of America Technical Center, December 3, 1990

Wavelets in Signal Processing and Computational Fluid Dynamics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, November 12, 1990