Georgios E. Stavroulakis, Professor
	Dr. Civil Engineer, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Privatdozent for Mechanics, Institute for Applied Mechanics, Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences at the Carolo Wilhelmina Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany, Honorary Professor, Department of Civil Engineering at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan Google Scholar Information
	Tel. : +302821037418, Fax: +302821037486	e-mail: gestavrdpem.tuc.gr

Milestones:

Professor Georgios E. Stavroulakis is the author or editor of several scientific books and papers (with more than 400 citations).

Editorial Activity

• NACO - Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization, http://aimsciences.org/journals/naco/board_B.htm
  
• International Journal of Engineering and Management
• Co-Editor of the: Book Series on Stability, Vibration and Control of Systems World Scientific Publishers (from 2003, member of advisory board).
• Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of Global Optimization Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Member of the Advisory Board:Book Series Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board: Book Series Modern Mechanics and Mathematics Chapman & Hall, CRC Press.

Summer Schools

• Co-Organiser (with Prof. J. Haslinger) and Lecturer, Advanced School on ‘ Nonsmooth Mechanics of Solids ’, October 4-8, 2004, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy.
• Co-Organiser (with Prof. Z. Mroz) and Lecturer, Advanced School on ‘ Parameter Identification of Materials and Structures ’, October 6-10, 2003, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy (CISM Course No. 251).
• Lecturer, Advanced School   Recent Advances in Boundary Element Methods and Their Solid Mechanics Applications , July 2-6, 2001, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy.

Conference Committees

• Organizer and Co-Chairman of 9th GRACM International Congress on Mechanics, 4-6 June 2018, Chania, Greece
• Local Organizer and Co-Chairman of 9th German-Greek-Polish Symposium on "Recent Advances in Mechanics", 4-9 September 2016, Chania, Greece
• Co-Chairman of 8th GRACM International Congress on Mechanics, 12-15 July 2015, Volos, Greece
• Organizer and Co-Chairman of 10th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, 25-27 May 2013, Chania, Greece
• Co-Organizer and Co-Chairman of the 7th GRACM International Congress on Computational Mechanics, 30 June-2 July 2011, Athens, Greece.
• CST2010: The Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology,Valencia, Spain, 14-17 September 2010
• AMSE International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Prague, 22-25 June, 2010.
• Organizer of the 5th Contact Mechanics International Symporium, Chania, Crete, April 28-30, 2009
• MS’08 Jordan International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Petra, Jordan, 18-20 November, 2008 , http://www.ahu.edu.jo/ms08jordan/
• Minisymposium co-organizer, WCCM8-ECCOMAS2008 Conference, Venice, Italy, 30 June – 4 July 2008 http://www.iacm-eccomascongress2008.org
• Member of the organising committee Second International Conference on Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics with Applications in Engineering, July 7-8, 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Member of the Scientific and Industrial Committee on Optimization and Control, European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering , July 24-28, 2004, Jyvaeskylae, Finland
• Invited Speaker Workshop on Auxetics and Other Systems of Special Mechanical Properties (AUXET) , Poznan, Poland , June 2004.
• Invited Speaker Workshop on Contact Mechanics and Thin Structures: Asymptotic and Numerical Methods , Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 16-18 February 2004.
• Invited Speaker International Colloquium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean Jacques Moreau , Montpellier, France, 17-19 November 2003.
• Invited Speaker School on Modelling, Control and Numerical Simulation of Smart Systems , Pavia, Italy , 15-19 September, 2004.
• Co-organizer (with Prof. G. Maier), Minisymposium on Identification Problems for Materials and Structures , within the 5th ESMC EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference , Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 August, 2003.
• Invited Speaker, 9th Greek Congress on Mathematical Analysis , September 5-7, 2002, Chania, Greece
• Member of the Organising Committee IUTAM Symposium Duality, Complementarity and Symmetry in Nonlinear Mechanics , August 13-16, 2002, Shanghai, China
• Member of the International Congress Committee International Conference on Mechatronics , July 3-6, 2002, Linz, Austria
• Member of the Organizing Committee International Conference on Nonsmooth/Nonconvex Mechanics with Applications in Engineering, In Memoriam of Professor P.D. Panagiotopoulos, July 5-6, 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Member of the Scientific Committee 4th Greek Association of Computational Mechanics Conference , June 27-29, 2002, Patras, Greece
• Member of the International Congress Committee Second Intern. Conference on Acoustics, Noise and Vibration , August 6-8, 2001, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Member of the Organising Committee  3rd WSES Intern. Conference on Mathematics and Computers in Mechanical Engineering (MCME 2001) , July 8-15, 2001, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

Scientific Committees

• Prof. Georgios E. Stavroulakis was elected member of the executive board of the Hellenic Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (HSTAM) for the period 2013-2016. Re-elected for 2016-2019 and serves as secretary
• Prof. Georgios E. Stavroulakis was elected member of the executive board and president of the Greek Association of Computational Mechanics (GRACM) for the period 2011-2014. Re-elected for 2015-today and serves as vice-president.
• Prof. G.E. Stavroulakis has been proposed by GRACM and appointed member of the Computational Applied Mathematics Commitee of ECCOMAS.

Reviewer

Reviewer during the last year for over 200 scientific journals and international conferences (such as ZAMM, Computers and Structures, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Engineering Structures, Zentrallblatt fuer Mathematik, Intern. Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, ZUSA-Journal of Zhejiang University- Science A)

Courses at the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete (2006-today):

• Undergraduate Courses
• Postgraduate Courses

Compact courses at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany(2000-today):

• Optimierung in der Mechanik (in German)
• Nichtglatte Mechanik (in German)

Courses at the Department of Mathematics, University of Ioannina, Greece (2000-2005)

• Classical Mechanics
• Mathematical Theory of Elasticity
• Mathematical Physics
• Topics in Mechanics
• Computational Mechanics FEM1
• Mechanics of Deformable Bodies (Postgraduate course)
• Topics from the physics of deformable bodies (Postgraduate course)

Courses at the Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (1998-2000):

• Technical Mechanics III
• Dynamic of Structures
• Theory of Elasticity (Postgraduate course)

The research activities of Professor George E. Stavroulakis are focused on the development of theory, algorithms and software for the solution of modern computational mechanics and optimization problems. The development of scientific software deals with topics of structural analysis, computational mechanics and optimization as well as the support of relevant research and development activities, in close cooperation with various partners.

List of Research Activities

List of Research Programs

• IFER - Internet Finite Element Resources

Showcase of student projects

Playing with springs (1-2-3 in finite elements, a phd game by Mr Georgios Markomanolis)