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Stefanos Papanikolaou is an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Statler College of Engineering and Department of Physics, West Virginia University. Since August 2016, he is also an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Papanikolaou acquired his BSc in Physics from the National University of Athens. He received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physics at Cornell University and then held research scientist and research professor appointments at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities before joining West Virginia University in 2016.
His primary research interest is in the theory and application of statistical methods towards the theoretical and computational modeling of mechanical behavior of materials. The aim is to develop reduced-order models and machine-learning approaches to provide non-trivial classification of large data sets. The focus is mainly on modeling plasticity and damage at the nanoscale and explores their relation to fracture.
His main teaching interests are: crystal plasticity, statistical mechanics, gas dynamics and kinetic theory, numerical methods in engineering, thermodynamics, solid mechanics, and mechanics of materials.
In July 2017, he becomes the Director of the American Society of Engineering and Education (ASEE), Northeast Central Section (2016-2018)
Dr. Papanikolaou has won the VIDI excellence grant (class of 2013) administered by the Netherlands research council for developing the career of highly prolific and productive researchers.
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