Meet our senior team members
Dr. Vasilis Burganos
Research Director, Lab Head
Research Director at FORTH/ICE-HT and Head of the SAMP Laboratory.He served as Director of the Institute and member of the Board of Directors of FORTH from 2013 to 2023.He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, New York, USA.He is active in transport phenomena, fluid mechanics, porous media, membrane science, and multiphase systems.He has taught several graduate and undergraduate courses in chemical engineering and materials science departments for over 15 years.Dr. Burganos has authored more than 220 peer reviewed publications in leading international scientific journals and proceedings, and has participated in numerous national and European research projects.He has served as editor and guest editor for international scientific journals and has contributed to the editing of scientific books and conference proceedings in his areas of expertise.His research combines fundamental modeling with practical applications, bridging chemical engineering, materials science, and applied physics.As of 2023, he has been honored as Distinguished Member of FORTH.
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Dr. Eugene Skouras
Professor, Chemical Engineer
Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of the Peloponnese and collaborating researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT.His research focuses on advanced computational modeling and simulation of transport phenomena across multiple scales, combining expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and numerical methods.His work spans a broad range of industrial, environmental, and biomedical applications, including fluid flow, diffusion, sorption, reaction, heat transfer, porous media, filtration and separation processes, magnetohydrodynamics, nanofluids, sensors, membranes, pollutant transport, and hemodynamics.Dr. Skouras has participated in more than 20 national and European research projects and several industrial collaborations, contributing to the development of innovative simulation methodologies and digital engineering solutions. He has authored more than 150 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, received over 1,000 citations, and has extensive teaching experience in fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, numerical methods, and process simulation.
Dr. Panagiota Polydoropoulou
Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineer
Postdoctoral Researcher at FORTH/ICE-HT and SAMP member. She received her Diploma in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and her Ph.D. from the University of Patras, Greece. She is conducting research on multiscale modeling, transport phenomena, nanotechnology, and advanced materials. She has extensive experience in finite element and multiphysics simulations using COMSOL, ANSYS, DIGIMAT, and other computational tools for the investigation of mechanical, thermal, and fluid-flow phenomena. Her work spans carbon nanotube- and graphene-based nanomaterials, nanocomposites, nanofluids, multifunctional and self-healing materials, as well as aerospace structures and manufacturing processes. She has participated in numerous European and national research projects and has authored more than 25 publications in international journals and conferences. Her long-term research vision is to combine physics-based modeling, multiscale simulations, and data-driven approaches to enable the design of next-generation adaptive materials and energy-efficient technologies.
Dr. George Bourantas
Assistant Professor, Physicist
Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Patras and SAMP member. He received his Physics degree from U. Patras and his Ph.D. from the Medical School, U. Patras, in the field of Medical Physics. He is a researcher with interdisciplinary expertise in computational engineering, applied mathematics, and biomedical technologies. His research focuses on the development of advanced numerical methods for solving complex engineering and physiological problems. Particular emphasis is placed on meshless methods, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite difference and generalized finite difference techniques, and high-performance scientific computing. A major area of his work involves cardiovascular modeling, including the simulation of blood flow in coronary arteries and the development of non-invasive diagnostic tools based on medical imaging. His interests extend to patient-specific modeling, digital twins, image-based computational biomechanics, and artificial intelligence applications in healthcare. He has more than 100 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, and participated in several national and European projects, in charge of computational techniques.