laboratory staff
FACULTY MEMBERS
Professor, Laboratory Director
Vasilios Spitas
Research: Mechanical design, gears, drive and power systems, tribology, 3D printing, reverse engineering, high-power hydraulic systems, and biomechanics.
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Assistant Professor
Ioannis Kalogeris
Research: Applied and computational mechanics, advanced finite element methods, composite materials, uncertainty analysis, reliability analysis, Bayesian parameter identification, and machine learning in structural analysis.
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Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, NTUA. He holds a civil engineering diploma, postgraduate studies in structural analysis and design, additional studies in mathematics, and a PhD in computational mechanics.
TEACHING & LAB PERSONNEL
Research and Teaching Staff
Georgios Kaisarlis
Research: Mechanical engineering design, geometrical and dimensional tolerancing, reverse engineering, and industrial dimensional metrology.
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PhD Mechanical Engineer, NTUA, with teaching, research, and industrial work in mechanical design, coordinate measuring machines, reverse engineering, dimensional metrology, product specifications, and verification.
Research and Teaching Staff
Stamatios Polydoras
Research: Additive manufacturing, 3D printing, design for additive manufacturing, CAD/CAE/PLM, rapid prototyping, product development, and digital manufacturing.
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PhD Mechanical Engineer, NTUA, and researcher in additive manufacturing and advanced digital design. His work covers rapid prototyping, design for additive manufacturing, CAD/CAE/PLM methods, product development, and digital manufacturing workflows.
Specialized Technical Laboratory Staff
Konstantinos Fouskas
Research: Electronics engineering, applied information systems, smart-meter installation, and technical support for research projects.
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Electronics Engineer and member of the Special Technical Laboratory Staff. He has worked in accredited vehicle testing, equipment installation, measurement work, laboratory exercise support, and technical participation in research and industry projects.
SENIOR POST-DOC RESEARCHERS
Senior Research Associate
Georgios Vasileiou
Research: Engineering design, power transmissions, gears transmissions, power hydraulics, nonlinear structural mechanics.
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PhD Mechanical Engineer whose doctoral work focused on optimized ultra-high pressure angle gears. His work includes international conference publications and R&D collaborations with research and industrial organizations in Greece and abroad.
Senior Research Associate
Nikolaos Rogkas
Research: Tribology, lubrication, powertrains, clutches.
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Mechanical engineer with a PhD on the design and optimization of wet clutches. He has worked on R&D projects and has numerous publications.
Senior Research Associate
Christos Kalligeros
Research: Powertrains, gear transmissions, dynamic analysis, optimization, biomechanics.
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Mechanical Engineer and Senior Research Associate at the Machine Design Laboratory. His doctoral research focused on optimizing gear tooth profiles for improved efficiency and dynamic behavior, and he has contributed to academic and industry-oriented R&D projects.
Senior Research Associate
Leonidas Paouris
Research: Automotive research and development, mechanical systems, gear transmissions.
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Diploma Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineer and PhD Mechanical Engineer. Since 2025 he has been a scientific associate of the Laboratory of Machine Elements and Mechanical Design, contributing to research activity and academic course co-teaching.
PHD RESEARCHERS
PhD Researcher
Panagiotis Ntakos
Research: Computational biomechanics, 3D-printed scaffolds, personalized rehabilitation, optimization.
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Mechanical Engineer and research associate specializing in bone fracture biomechanics and personalized rehabilitation. His work includes implant selection software, 3D-printed scaffold design, computational modelling, and Bayesian optimization.
PhD Researcher
Vasileios Gakos
Research: Engineering & product design, bioengineering, medical devices, CAE simulations.
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PhD researcher specializing in mechanical structures and biomedical product design. His doctoral work concerns an ex vivo beating-heart support and assessment system for transplantation using a T3 hormone solution.
PhD Researcher
Vasilios Sarlis
Research: Additive manufacturing, reverse engineering, metrology.
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PhD on compliant mechanisms and 4D-printed structures.
PhD Researcher
Ioannis Papachristos
Research: Tribology, compliant surface features, computational mechanics, multiphysics FEA-FSI.
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PhD Candidate and Research Associate in the Laboratory of Machine Elements and Mechanical Design, NTUA. His work focuses on analysis and design of compliant surface features for target tribological behaviour, multiphysics simulation, and in-house computational tools.
PhD Researcher
Dimitrios Patsouras
Research: Tribology, physics-based modeling, computational mechanics, CAE simulation, EV powertrain systems, and multifunctional hierarchical surfaces.
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MSc Mechanical Engineer working in computational mechanics and tribology. His doctoral research focuses on the design and optimization of multifunctional hierarchical surfaces for wet environments.
Research Associate, PhD Researcher UNIWA
Christos Papalexis
Research: Polymeric gear systems, engineering design, CAE simulation, NN surrogate models, additive manufacturing.
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PhD candidate specializing in optimization of polymeric spur gears to improve NVH performance. His work connects numerical modelling, FEA, neural-network surrogates, additive manufacturing, and industrial project engineering.
Research Associate, PhD Researcher UoWM
Dimitrios Krifos
Research: Reverse engineering, metrology, engineering design, powertrains.
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PhD on reverse engineering, with cooperation on R&D projects in engineering design and metrology.