Athanasios Papathanasiou

Prof. Dr. Athanasios Papathanasiou, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, Canada), author/co-author of more than 35 journal papers, specializes in industrial chemical processes, with emphasis on the analysis of composite materials. Before joining the University of Thessaly in 2008, he was an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of South Carolina (1997-2008), Unilever Lecturer in Process Engineering at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-1997), Director’s Post-Doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (1991-1992) and Research Scientist at ALCAN Intl. R&D Center in Kingston, Canada. He is a recipient of a European International Integration Grant in 2007.

Key publications:

1.Andersson, A.G., Westerberg, L.G., Papathanasiou, T.D., Lundstrm, T.S. “Flow through a two-scale porosity material”, Research Letters in Materials Science, 2009, art. no. 701512, 

2.Chen, X., Papathanasiou, T.D., “ Barrier properties of flake-filled membranes: Review and numerical evaluation”, Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting, 23 (4), pp. 319-345.

3.Chen, X., Papathanasiou, T.D., “Interface stress distributions in transversely loaded continuous fiber composites: Parallel computation in multi-fiber RVEs using the boundary element method”,  Composites Science and Technology, 64 (9), pp. 1101-1114.