Stavros Kassinos

Biography

Stavros C. Kassinos completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin (B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, 1986) while on a CASP/USIA scholarship. He followed with graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in California (M.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1995). He continued to work in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Fellow till 1997, when he joined the Research Staff at the Stanford/NASA-Ames Center for Turbulence Research (CTR). Between 1999 and 2003 he also held a joint appointment at the Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations (CITS) at Stanford University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus and the Head of two Research Laboratories: the Computational Sciences Laboratory at the University of Cyrpus (UCY-CompSci) and the Fusion Trasnational Unit for Research in Cyrpus (FUTURE-CY). His research interests center on the numerical simulation and modeling of complex physical systems including turbulent fluid flow in connection with environmental, biomedical and technological applications and plasma and MHD flow in connection with fusion technologies. In parallel, he has developed a particular interest in nanofluidic systems for biomedical and environmental applications. At present, his research team consists of 3 postdocotal associates, 3 PhD students, 1 MSc student and 2 Diploma Thesis students. He teaches in the area of thermofluids and computational engineering. He has published over 58 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Since joining UCY, he has coordinated or participated as a partner in several research projects with a total funding to UCY of over 5.0 million €. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow and is the Chair of COST Action MP1404 - "SimInhale".

Research Interest

Turbulent fluid flow fundamentals: theory, simulation and modelling, including the development of Structure-Based Models; MHD flow and palsma flow for nuclear fusion applications; biomedical fluid flows (cardiovascular and airways); atmospheric dispersion; environmental fluid flows including dispersion in reservoirs; reverse osmosis processes for desalination; nanofluidics for biomedical, environmental and energy conversion applications.