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Biographical information

TFL

Education

  • Ph.D., Aeronautics and Applied Mathematics, 1997.
    California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, U.S.A
  • M.Sc., Aeronautics, 1993.
    California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
  • M.Sc., Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, 1991.
    National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

 

Professional Experience

  • Professor (2010 - present),
    Associate Professor (2005 - 2010),
    Assistant Professor (2002 - 2005),
    University of Louvain
    Louvain-la-Neuve,
    Belgium.
  • Member of the Technical Staff (1998 - 2002)
    NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
    Pasadena, California,
    U.S.A.
  • Post-doctoral Fellow (1997)
    California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
    Pasadena, California,
    U.S.A.
  • Research and teaching assistant (1993-1997)
    California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
    Pasadena, California,
    U.S.A.
 

Honours and Awards

  • Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), 2009.
  • Space Act Award, NASA, 2003.
  • Space Act Award, NASA, 2002.
  • NOVA Award of Excellence, NASA, 2000.
  • William Balhaus Dissertation Prize, Caltech, 1997.
  • Russel Vought Fellowship, Caltech, 1992.
  • National Prize of the Technical Chamber of Greece, 1991.
  • National Prize of the Technical Chamber of Greece, 1990.
  • Thomaidion Prize, National Technical University of Athens, 1990.
  • State Fellowship, Greek Government, 1987- 1991.
 

Professional Activities

  • Director, Masters Program in Mechanical Engineering, UCL, 2015 - present.
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the doctoral school in Engineering Sciences of the Belgian Foundation of Scientific Research (FNRS), 2015 - present.
  • Member of the Steering Committee on Environmental Fluid Mechanics of the EU Research Community on Flow Turbulence & Combustion (ERCOFTAC), 2015 - present.
  • Vice-president, Doctoral Studies Committee, Engineering School of UCL, 2014 - present.
  • Member of the Belgian National Committee of Mechanics, 2013 - present.
  • Vice-president of the Belgian Section of the Combustion Institute, 2011 - 2016.
  • Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associate Fellow), American Physical Society, Combustion Institute, Technical Chamber of Greece.