Associate Prof. Pavlos S. Stephanou
​An enthusiastic and diligent Chemical Engineer, holder of a MSc and a PhD in Chemical Engineering with strong analytical and computational skills. Comfortable with implementing multiple tasks, and taking leadership roles. He has been the recipient of a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (09/2015-08/2016), the Cyprus Research Award-“Young Researcher” 2015 (Thematic Area: Physical Sciences and Engineering) for his research in modeling the viscoelasticity of polymer nanocomposites, and the inaugural “Tasos C. Papanastasiou Award” of the Hellenic Society of Rheology (HSR), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of rheology, particularly in the use of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and constitutive modeling to advance our understanding of complex fluid behavior.
EDUCATION
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Physical Chemistry
Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics, Non-Equilibrium Thermody-namics, Statistical Mechanics
December 2006 - May 2011
Department of Chemical Engineering University of Patras
Ph.D. and MSc in Chemical Engineering
GPA: 9.75/10.0 (top of class)
Dissertation: “Development of scale-bridging methodo-logies and algorithms founded on the outcome of detailed atomistic simulations for the reliable prediction of the viscoelastic properties of polymer melts”
Materials
Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Polymer Rheology, Polymer Physics, Statistical Mechanics of Polymers, Polymer Mechanics, Nanomaterials
Numerical Analysis
Numerical Methods for Engineers, Finite Element Method
September 2001 - December 2006
Department of Chemical Engineering University of Patras
Diploma in Chemical Engineering
GPA: 9.27/10.00 (top of class, Third Highest GPA)
Diploma thesis: “Atomistic modelling of the polyelectro-lyte membrane Nafion®”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Polymers
Modelling at the mesoscopic and macroscopic level, rheological and dynamical behaviour, interfacial properties
Thermodynamics
Generalized Bracket formalism of Beris-Edwards, GENERIC formalism of Grmela-Öttinger
Numerical Analysis
Calculation of the fluxes of polymeric liquids using the Finite Element method