LEONIDAS N. GERGIDIS

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Contact Information

Tel.: +30-26510 07316
e-mail: Personal/Dept/Lab URL/: http://www.materials.uoi.gr/lgergidis.php

Research topics (related to the Institute)

Mathematical and Computer Modeling of: Porous materials and zeolites; Composite materials for energy harvesting applications; Polymers; Magnetic materials; Nanomaterials; Biomaterials; Wave propagation and scattering in materials; Elasticity-Gradient Elasticity for materials with microstructure; Mechanical-Electric-Magnetic-Thermal properties of composite materials;

Research summary

Research interests: basic and applied research of porous, composite, polymeric and magnetic materials.
(i) Mathematical modeling of wave scattering and wave propagation in materials and materials with microstructure, assisted by numerical implementations with Special Functions, Finite elements for applications in biomaterials and composite materials
(ii) Molecular modeling of porous materials using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations
(iii) Numerical simulation of micromagnetics problems with Finite Elements, Finite Differences for nanomagnetic materials having applications in information storage, magnetic sensors and medicine
(iv) Coarse grained Molecular and Brownian dynamics simulations of polymeric materials
(v) Modeling and simulation of gradient elasticity problems with applications in biomedical technology.
(vi) Analytical and Numerical study of boundary value problems, stochastic differential equations for applications related to direct and inverse problems
(vii) Modeling the mechanical, electrical, magnetic and thermal properties of composite materials.

Professional background

9.2019 - today	Assoc. Professor, DMSE, UOI
9.2014- 9.2019	Assist. Professor (tenure-track), DMSE, UOI
1.2011 – 9.2014	Assist. Professor , DMSE, UOI
4.2008 – 6.2009	Post Doctoral Researcher, Chemical Engineering Dept. , Penn State University, USA
8.2003 – 8.2007	Lecturer (407/80), DMSE, UOI