Associate Professor SAMPS, Director of the department of Mechanics

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Panos Gourgiotis is currently an Associate Professor of Solid Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens at the School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Division of Mechanics.

Dr Gourgiotis has been an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly (UTH) (2020-2023) and the Director of Micromechanics Lab at UTH (2021-2023). He was an Assistant Professor in Applied Mechanics at the Department of Engineering at Durham University, UK (2016 - 2020) and a Marie Curie experienced researcher at the University of Trento, Italy (2012 – 2016). He has also worked as a post-doctoral researcher in basic research programs at NTUA (2009- 2012).

He holds a Civil Engineering diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), an MSc degree in “Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures” and a PhD in Applied Mechanics from the Mechanics Division at NTUA.

His research interests fall in the area of micromechanics of materials. Dr Gourgiotis has conducted research in the areas of fracture and contact mechanics, dislocations, and wave propagation in solids. A significant amount of his research has been focused in the growing field of generalized continuum theories. The common theoretical thread linking his research work is the question on how the microstructural morphology affects the macroscopical behaviour of heterogeneous materials. Dr Gourgiotis is an expert in boundary integral techniques and advanced analytical methods. He has published more than 40 research articles in peer reviewed magazines and international conferences and organised two symposia within the European Solid Mechanics Conferences (2015 & 2022). He is in the editorial board of Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures.

Selected publications

• G. Hattori, J. Trevelyan, P.A. Gourgiotis (2023). An isogeometric boundary element formulation for stress concentration problems in couple stress elasticity. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 407, 11593.
• P.A. Gourgiotis, T. Zisis, A.E. Giannakopoulos, H.G. Georgiadis (2019). The Hertz contact problem in couple-stress elasticity. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 168, 228-237
• P.A. Gourgiotis, D. Bigoni (2017). The dynamics of folding instability in a constrained Cosserat medium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 375(2093): 20160159
  Th. Papathanasiou, P.A. Gourgiotis, F. Dal Corso (2016). Finite element simulation of a gradient elastic half-space subjected to thermal shock on the boundary. Applied Mathematical Modelling 40, 10181-10198
• P.A. Gourgiotis and D. Bigoni (2016) Stress channelling in extreme couple-stress materials Part I: Strong ellipticity, wave propagation, ellipticity, and discontinuity relations, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 88, 150–168
• P.A. Gourgiotis and S. Stupkiewicz (2014) Macroscopic stress and strain in a doubly periodic array of dislocation dipoles, Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 470: 20140309
• P.A. Gourgiotis and A. Piccolroaz (2014) Steady-state propagation of a mode II crack in couple stress elasticity, International Journal of Fracture 188, 119–145
• P.A. Gourgiotis and H.G. Georgiadis (2009) Plane-strain crack problems in microstructured solids governed by dipolar gradient elasticity, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 57, 1898–1920