Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences

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RESEARCH
at the University of Cyprus
FACULTY OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Research Profile and Publica!ons
2008-2010
University House ”Anastasios G. Leventis”
1 University Avenue
P.O.Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
Tel.: (+357) 22894000
E-mail: [email protected]
This edition was produced by the Publications Office, International Relations
and Promotion Sector of the Research and International Relations Service of the
University of Cyprus under the supervision of the University’s Research
Committee and the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs, Professor Athanasios
Gagatsis who chairs the Committee.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Gregory Makrides
Director of Research and International Relation Service
GENERAL EDITOR
Elena Avgoustidou-Kyriacou
Senior University Officer, International Relations and Promotion Sector
Research and International Relations Service
COORDINATING EDITOR
Corinna Kiliari
University Officer, Publications Office
International Relations and Promotion Sector
DESIGN / LAYOUT
Popi Palma Constantinou
Publications Office, International Relations and Promotion Sector
ISSN 1450-0574
Copyright©2012 University of Cyprus
RESEARCH PROFILE AND PUBLICATIONS
2008-2010
FACULTY OF PURE
AND APPLIED SCIENCES
CONTENTS
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Introduction
5
Message from the Dean
6
Department of Biological Sciences
9
Department of Chemistry
31
Department of Computer Science
59
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
111
Department of Physics
141
Appendices
164
Doctoral Titles
165
Abbreviations
168
Academic Staff Index
169
INTRODUCTION
This publication lists the research activity of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences of the
University of Cyprus undertaken in the years 2008-2010. This book presents information on
each member of the Faculty’s academic staff who is directly or indirectly related to research,
such as membership in professional societies, international organisations or editorial boards,
and participation in research programmes. The internal research programmes which are listed
in this publication have been approved by the Senate of the University of Cyprus.
Publications make up a sizeable part of the book and only published books, chapters and
articles are included, while publications ‘’in press’’ or ‘’forthcoming’’ are not. The number of
journal publications and conference proceedings is limited to a selection of best ten
publications by each member of the academic staff.
Members of the academic staff are listed in alphabetic order within departments and the
information outlined in all research profiles is based on electronic data received directly from
members of the academic staff.
The book contains three appendices:
• Appendix I lists all the doctoral titles awarded by the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences in
alphabetic order within the period 2008-2010.
• Appendix II presents a list of abbreviated terms listed in this publication.
• Appendix III lists an index of the academic staff of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
in alphabetic order by surname.
For more information on the research activity of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, visit
the University of Cyprus website at http://www.ucy.ac.cy/goto/puapsci/en-US/HOME.aspx.
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Message from the Dean
Research, teaching, and cultural contribution form the pillars of the Faculty of Pure and Applied
Sciences. In its 23 years of existence the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences has made
significant achievements in these areas, and especially in the area of research. The research work
carried out facilitated the recognition of our University internationally, with numerous awards
of excellence. In parallel, growth has been achieved both with respect to the number of faculty
members (currently 79), and in the number of Departments that has been increased from three
to five (Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Physics and
Chemistry).
This volume covers the research profile and publications of the five Departments of the Faculty
of Pure and Applied Sciences, the Oceanography Center, and the Molecular Medicine Research
Center. A summary of the academic publications performance of the five Departments and the
two Centers during the period 2008-2010, is as follows:
Total
Books (Authorship)
7
Books (Editing)
16
Chapters in Books
87
Selected Journal Publications
464
Selected Conference Proceedings
475
Distinguished Publications
37
The total number of research projects awarded to the Faculty was 307, with a total budget in
excess of 35 million Euros. External funding was obtained primarily through the European Union
and the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, whereas internal funding through the
University state budget. The funding activity during the period 2008-2010 can be summarized
as follows:
No. of projects
External Funding
289
33.954.462
Internal Funding
18
1.397.357
307
35.351.819
Total
6
Euros
Two patent applications were filed in by faculty members from the Department of Chemistry,
one on the synthesis and anticancer properties of vitamin E by Dr. A. Keramidas, and one on
deNOx catalytic technology by Dr. A.M. Efstathiou. Moreover, the University has signed a License
Agreement with Linde Engineering AG (Germany) for the development of the novel deNOx
technology.
All Departments have revised both their undergraduate and graduate programmes of study
towards meeting the demanding science and technology needs of the 21st century. From 2008
to 2010, a total of 46 Ph.D. and 185 M.Sc. titles were awarded. Moreover, the number of enrolled
Ph.D. and Master students for the period 2008-2010 was 393 and 541, respectively.
Our Faculty members offered a wide spectrum of activities to the community. These activities
include, among many others, collaborations and consultancy with local industry, provision of
expertise in Parliamentary Committees, and organization of National and International
Olympiads, as well as of numerous workshops and seminars open to the public.
Our vision for the future is that our Faculty will continue to strengthen towards excellence in
both research and teaching, and also to contribute to the advancement of basic science,
technology, and culture.
Efstathios Paparoditis
Dean
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ACADEMIC STAFF
Andreas Constantinou
Professor
Constantinos Deltas
Professor
Pantelis Georgiades
Assistant Professor
Vasilis Promponas
Lecturer
Alexander Kirschel
Lecturer
Leontios G. Kostrikis
Associate Professor
Antonis Kirmizis
Assistant Professor
Niovi Santama
Associate Professor
Paris Skourides
Assistant Professor
Katerina Strati
Lecturer
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The Department of Biological Sciences, established in 2002, is research-oriented and our faculty
actively pursues research in areas at the forefront of science. Currently, there are thirteen faculty
members, three of whom joined the Department in 2005, and this number is expected to grow. The
21st century has been coined as the century of Biology. Major advances are taking place in fields
such as Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Embryology, Biotechnology and, after the decoding
of the human genome, Bioinformatics.
The Department of Biological Sciences carries out important research activity in a wide range of
fields in which major advances are currently taking place. These include Molecular Biology, Molecular
Genetics, Embryology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Biodiversity. Members of the Department
cooperate and participate in research programmes with other Universities and Research Centres.
All of our faculty members, whose research interests fall within the above fields, head their own
laboratories. Specifically, the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Chemoprevention is working to
identify new molecular targets for antitumor drugs. The identification of natural food components
that may prevent or delay the process of carcinogenesis is the mail focus of the laboratory. The
Molecular and Medical Genetics Laboratory is investigating inherited kidney disease and familial
Mediterranean fever. The Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology aims to understand
the implications of viral and host determinants on the transmission and the progression of HIV-1 as
well as the dynamics of cellular and viral drug-resistance in patients treated with antiretroviral
therapy. The Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry is focused on kinesin-like superfamily
of microtubule-based motor proteins, including determining their role in neurodegenerative disease.
The Cytomolecular Genetics and Embryology Laboratory investigates the still unexplained genetic
and cellular basis of embryogenesis and embryo survival, with special focus on the influences of
extra embryonic tissues and stem cell biology. The Laboratory of Developmental Biology and
Bioimaging Technology studies the mechanisms underlying the formation of complex embryonic
architecture and also explores applications of nanotechnology in the life sciences. The Bioinformatics
Research Laboratory focuses on the elucidation of protein sequence to structure/function
relationships through large-scale comparative analysis of genomic data. The research activities of
the various laboratories are funded by the European Union and the Cyprus Research Promotion
Foundation.
Members of our Department regularly organize international conferences and forums and are invited
to present their research in international conferences as main or keynote speakers. Although the
Department of Biological Sciences is new, it is very promising; its faculty members pursue cuttingedge research in the above areas of biology with applications in medicine. Consequently, research
performed in the Department of Biological Sciences contributes to the improvement of human
health and will also help the technological advancement of Cyprus.
Andreas Constantinou
Chairperson
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FAC U LT Y O F P U RE A N D A PP L I ED S C I E N C E S
D e p a r t m e nt o f B i o l o gi cal S cien ces
ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU Professor
TEL.: 22892883, FAX: 22892881, E-mail: [email protected]
STUDIES
National University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Biology, 1975
University of Toledo, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Biology, 1980
Medical College of Ohio, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1985
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES/INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
American Association for Cancer Research, U.S.A.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Routledge • In Vivo
(Member), Greece, International Institute of Anticancer Research
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Role of Nutrition in Carcinogenesis; Cancer Chemoprevention; Interactions between
Botanicals and Drugs; Molecular Targets of Antitumor Drugs; Phytoestrogens and
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs)
EXTERNAL RESEARCH PROGRAMMES
Α6 Integrin Cleavage as a Therapeutic Target for Prostate Cancer
Funding: INTERBLOCK, European Commission
A Semantic Social Collaborative Working Space Linking Biomedical Researchers,
Knowledge and Data for the Design and Execution of In-Silico Experiments in Cancer
Chemoprevention (GRANATUM)
Cooperating Organizations: Fraunhofer Institute for applied Information Technology,
Germany; Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas / Biomedical Research
Institute, Greece; Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece; German Cancer
Research Centre, Germany; National University of Ireland Galway – Digital Enterprise
Research Institute, Ireland; Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, U.S.A.
Funding: FP7-ICT-2009-6, European Commission
Chromatin Remodeling
Cooperating Organization: Demokritos, Greece
Funding: RPF, Cyprus
Indirubin in Prostate Cancer Metastasis (PENEK)
Cooperating Organizations: Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Academy of
Athens (IIBEA), Greece
Molecular Mechanism by Tamoxifen and Equol
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Research Profile and Publications 2008-2010
Identification and Functional Characterization of Novel Genes involved in Breast Cancer
Metastasis
Cooperating Organization: Boston University School of Medicine, U.S.A.
Synergistic Activity of Natural Antioxidants in the Prevention and Therapy of Prostate
Cancer
Cooperating Organization: Yasoo Inc, U.S.A. & Cyprus
Therapeutic Antiinflamatory Substances in Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Development of Nutraceutical Product for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Identification of New Medicinal Plants for Cancer Chemoprevention and Treatment
Cooperating Organization: Gr. T. Popa University, Romania
Blocking Cleavage of A6 Integrin by uPA
PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Georgaki, S., Skopeliti, M., Tsiatas, M., Nicolaou, A. K., Husband, A., Bamias, A., Constantinou, A. I., &
Tsitsilonis, O. (2009). Phenoxodiol, an anticancer isoflavone, induces immune-specific effects in vitro and
in vivo. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 20, 1-10.
Batsi, C., Markopoulou, S., Kontargiris, E., Charalambous, C., Thomas, C., Christoforidis, S., Kanavaros, P.,
Constantinou, A. I., Marcu, K. B., & Kolettas, E. (2009). Bcl-2 blocks 2-methoxyestradiol induced leukemia
cell apoptosis by a p27(Kip1)-dependent G1/S cell cycle arrest in conjunction with NF-kappaB
activation. Biochemical Pharmacology, 78, 33-44.
Constantinou, C., Papas, K. A., & Constantinou, A. I. (2009). Caspase-independent pathways of
programmed cell death: the unraveling of new targets of cancer therapy? Current Cancer Drug Targets,
9, 717-28.
Constantinou, C., Hyatt, J., Vraka, P., Papas, A., Papas, K., Neophytou, K., Hadjivassiliou, V., & Constantinou,
A. I. (2009). Induction of caspase-independent programmed cell death by vitamin E natural homologs
and synthetic derivatives. Nutrition and Cancer, 61, 864-74.
Constantinou, C., Papas A., & Constantinou, A. I. (2008). Vitamin E and Cancer: An insight into the
anticancer activities of vitamin E isomers and analogues. International Journal of Cancer, 123(4),
739-52.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Miron, A., Olymbiou, C., Charalambous, C., Salminen, J-P., Karonen, M., Constantinou, & A. I. (2009).
Fractionation and determination of the antitumor activity of Pinus sylvestris L. bark extracts, Planta
Medica, 75, 980.
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FAC U LT Y O F PUR E A N D A P P L I E D S C I E N C E S
D e p a r t m ent o f B i o l o gi cal S cien ces
Odiatou, E. M., Skaltsounis, A. L., & Constantinou, A. I. (2008). Oleuropein’s anti-cancer effect on MDAMB-231 breast cancer cells is mediated through DNA damage and is independent of Estrogen Receptors
alpha and beta, Planta Medica, 74, 107.
Nicolaou. K. A, Skaltsounis A. L, & Constantinou A. I. (2008). Equol and 6-bromoindirubin-3-oxime
modulate invasive activity of prostate cancer cell lines through inhibition of urokinase type
plasminogen activator, Planta Medica, 74, 3.
Constantinou, C., Hyatt, J., Vraka, P., Hadjivassiliou, V., Papas, A., Neophytou, C., & Constantinou, A. I.
(2008). Pro-apoptotic properties of vitamin E isomers and novel derivatives in prostate cancer, Planta
Medica, 74, 3.
Vraka, P. S., Neophytou, C., Constantinou, C., Papas, K., & Constantinou, A. I. (2008). Equol and genistein
enhance the apoptotic effects of γ- and δ-tocotrienols in androgen receptor-positive prostate cancer
cells, Planta Medica, 74, 110.
DISTINGUISHED PUBLICATIONS
Liu, J., Burdette, J. E., Xu, H., Gu, C., Bhat, K., Booth, N., Constantinou, A. I., Van Breemen, R. B., Pezzuto, J.
M., Fong, H. H. S., Farnsworth, N. R, & Bolton J. L. (2001). Evaluation of estrogenic activity of plant
extracts for the potential treatment of menopausal symptoms. Journal of Agriculture and Food
Chemistry, 49, 2472-2479.
Constantinou, A. I., & Huberman E. (1995). Genistein, an inducer of tumor cell differentiation: possible
mechanisms of action, Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. Med., 208, 109-115.
Constantinou, A. l., Kiguchi, K., & Huberman, E. (1990). Induction of differentiation and DNA strand
breakage in human HL-60 and K-562 leukemia cells by genistein. Cancer Research, 50, 2618-2624.
CONSTANTINOS DELTAS Professor
TEL.: 22892882, E-mail: [email protected]
STUDIES
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Pharmacy, 1982
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S.A., Ph.D., 1988
Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Institute of Molecular Medicine, Phila, PA, U.S.A.
Instructor in Medicine, 1990
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, U.S.A. Research Fellow, 1991
Greek Society of Medical Geneticists, Greece • Cyprus Biological Society, Cyprus • Hellenic
Society of Nephrology, Greece • Cyprus Society of Human Genetics, Cyprus • Hellenic
College of Nephrology and Hypertension, Greece • European Society of Human Genetics
(ESHG) • American Society of Nephrology, U.S.A.
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
HIPPOKRATIA (Member of Advisory Committee), Greece, Hippokratio General Hospital of
Thessaloniki, PubMed, Scopus • BMC Research Notes (Associate Editor), U.K., BioMed
Central Ltd, covered by PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Inherited Kidney Diseases and Other Monogenic Disorders; Chronic Kidney Disease;
Diabetic Nephropathy; Applications of Molecular Medical Diagnostics; Molecular
Epidemiology and Genetic Map of Cyprus
Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells of a Transgenic Rat as a Cellular Model for Therapy of
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Cooperating Organization: Medical Research Centre, Klinikum Mannheim, University of
Heidelberg, Germany
Murine Models for Polycystic Kidney Disease. The Role of Epithelial-mesenchymal
Abnormalities in Disease Development
Cooperating Organization: University of Crete, Greece
Functional Study of Molecular Pathomechanisms underlying Glomerular Basement
Membrane Pathology in Mice and in Cellulo
Cooperating Organization: Medical Research Centre, Klinikum Mannheim, University of
Heidelberg, Germany
Development and Application of a Molecular Method for Diagnosis-Prognosis of
Inherited Glomerulopathies
Cooperating Organizations: Medical Services of the Ministry of Health, Cyprus; University
of Crete, Greece; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Medical Research Centre,
Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany
The Role of MicroRNAs (miRNA) in the Development of Polycystic Kidney Disease
Cooperating Organization: Medical Research Centre, Klinikum, University of Heidelberg,
Germany
Creation of a Kidney Specific Biobank and Infrastructure for Genomics/proteomics
Research
Cooperating Organizations: Medical Services of the Ministry of Health, Cyprus; Medical
Research Centre, Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Biomedical
Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece
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COST Action
Cooperating Organizations: 20 European Countries and third countries (FYROM, Turkey,
and others)
PUBLICATIONS
Liu, M., Shi, S., Senthilnathan, S., Yu, J., Wu, E., Bergmann, C., Zerres, K., Bogdanova, N., Coto, E., Deltas, C.,
Pierides, A., Demetriou, K., Devuyst, O., Gitomer, B., Laakso, M., Lumiaho, A., Lamnissou, K., Magistroni, R.,
Parfrey, P., Breuning, M., Peters, D. J., Torra, R., Winearls, C. G., Torres, V. E., Harris, P. C., Paterson, A. D., &
Pei, Y. (2010). Genetic variation of DKK3 may modify renal disease severity in ADPKD. J Am Soc Nephrol
21(9), 1510-1520.
Gale, D. P., Goicoechea de Jorge, E., Cook, T., Martinez-Barricarte, R., Hadjisavvas, A., McLean, A. G., Pusey,
C. D., Pierides, A., Kyriacou, K., Athanasiou, Y., Voskarides, K., Deltas, C., & Palmer, A. (2010). FrémeauxBacchi V, de Cordoba SR, Maxwell PH, Pickering MC: Complement Factor H-Related protein 5 (CFHR5)
Nephropathy: an endemic cause of renal disease in Cyprus. *A special invited Comment by S. Ananth
Karumanchi & Ravi Thadhani was published in the same issue commenting on the results. The Lancet
376(9743), 794-801.
Koupepidou, P., Felekkis, K. N., Kränzlin, B., Sticht, C., Gretz, N., & Deltas, C. (2010). Cyst formation in the
PKD2 (1-703) transgenic rat precedes deregulation of proliferation-related pathways. BMC Nephrology
11, 23. doi:10.1186/1471-2369-11-23.
Deltas, C., & Papagregoriou, G. (2010). Cystic Diseases of the Kidney: Molecular Biology and Genetics.
Arch Pathol Lab Med, 134(4), 569-582.
Deltas, C. (2009). Thin Basement Membrane Nephropathy: is there genetic predisposition to more
severe disease? Pediatr Nephrol, 242, 877-879.
Pierides, A., Voskarides, K., Athanasiou, Y., Ioannou, K., Damianou, L., Arsali, M., Zavros, M., Pierides, M.,
Vargemezis, V., Patsias, C., Zouvani, I., Elia, A., Kyriacou, K., & Deltas, C. (2009). Clinico-pathological
correlations in 127 patients in 11 large pedigrees, segregating one of three heterozygous mutations in
the COL4A3/COL4A4 genes associated with familial hematuria and significant, late progression to
proteinuria, and chronic kidney disease from focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Nephrol Dial
Transplant, 24(9), 2721-2729.
Voskarides, Κ., Patsias, C., Pierides, A., & Deltas, C. (2008). COL4A3 Founder mutations in Greek-Cypriot
families with thin basement membrane nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis dating
from around 18th century. Genetic Testing, 12(2), 273-278.
Voskarides. K., Makariou, C., Papagregoriou, G., Stergiou, N., Printza, N., Alexopoulos, A., Elia, A.,
Papachristou, F., Pierides, A., Georgaki, E., & Deltas, C. (2008). NPHS2 screening with SURVEYOR in
Hellenic children with steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol, 23(8), 1373-1375.
Felekkis, Κ. Ν., Koupepidou, P., Kastanou, E., Witzgall, R., Bai, C-X., Li, L., Tsiokas, L., Gretz, N., & Deltas, C.
(2008). Mutant polycystin-2 induces proliferation in primary rat tubular epithelial cells in a STAT-1/p21independent fashion accompanied instead by alterations in expression of p57KIP2 and Cdk2. BMC
Nephrology, 9(1), 10.
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Voskarides, K., Pierides, A., & Deltas, C. (2008). COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations link familial hematuria and
focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Glomerular epithelium destruction via basement membrane
thinning? Connective Tissue Research, 49(3), 283-288.
Gale, D. P., Goicoechea de Jorge, E., Cook, T., Martinez-Barricarte, R., Hadjisavvas, A., McLean, A. G., Pusey,
C. D., Pierides, A., Kyriacou, K., Athanasiou, Y., Voskarides, K., Deltas, C., & Palmer, A. (2010). FrémeauxBacchi V, de Cordoba SR, Maxwell PH, Pickering MC: Complement Factor H-Related protein 5 (CFHR5)
Nephropathy: an endemic cause of renal disease in Cyprus. *A special invited Comment by S Ananth
Karumanchi and Ravi Thadhani was published in the same issue commenting on the results. The Lancet
376(9743), 794-801.
Voskarides, K., Damianou, L., Neocleous, V., Zouvani, I., Christodoulidou, S., Hadjiconstantinou, V.,
Ioannou, K., Athanasiou, Y., Patsias, C., Alexopoulos, E., Pierides, A., Kyriakou, K., & Deltas, C. (2007).
COL4A3/COL4A4 mutations producing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and renal failure in thin
basement membrane nephropathy. J Am Soc Nephrol, 18(11), 3004-3016.
Mochizuki, T., Wu, G., Hayashi, T., Xenophontos, S., Veldhuisen, B., Saris, J. J., Reynolds, D., Cai, Y., Gabow,
P., Pierides, A., Kimberling, W., Breuning, M., Deltas, C., Peters, D., & Somlo, S. (1996). PKD2, a Gene for
Polycystic Kidney Disease that Encodes an Integral Membrane Protein. Science, 272, 1339-1342.
PANTELIS GEORGIADES Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Queen Mary, University of London, U.K., B.Sc. in Molecular Biology, 1992
UCL, University of London, U.K., Ph.D. in Developmental Biology, 1996
University of Cambridge, U.K., Post-Doctorate in Developmental Genetics, 2001
University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada, Post-Doctorate in Developmental
Genetics, 2005
British Society for Developmental Biology, U.K.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Stem Cell Biology/Regenerative BioMedicine; Embryology/Pregnancy
Complications/Embryo viability; Developmental Biology; Developmental
Genetics/Functional Genomics/Epigenetics; Molecular Embryology
INTERNAL RESEARCH PROGRAMMES (University of Cyprus)
New roles for the trophoblast in embryo gastrulation: A genetic and embryological study
using Ets2 gene knockout and wildtype mouse embryos
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Novel functions for trophoblast in mouse early gastrulation
Investigation of Ets2 gene function in trophoblast development using trophoblast stem
cells and Ets2 mutant mouse embryos
PUBLICATIONS
Odiatis C., & Georgiades P. (2010). New Insights for Ets2 Function in Trophoblast using LentivirusMediated Gene Knockdown in Trophoblast Stem Cells. Placenta, 31(7), 630-640.
Georgiades P. (2009). Embryo-derived Stem cells: their biology and future prospects for medicine, 1st
International Conference "Medical Applications of Stem Cells. Cyprus (CD-ROM).
Georgiades, P., & Rossant, J. (2006). Ets2 is necessary in trophoblast for normal embryonic
anteroposterior axis development. Development, 133, 1059-1068.
Georgiades, P., Ferguson-Smith, A. C., & Burton, G. J. (2002). Comparative Developmental Anatomy of
the Murine and Human Definitive Placentae. Placenta, 23, 3-19.
Georgiades, P., Watkins, M., Burton, G. J., & Ferguson-Smith, A.C. (2001). Roles for genomic imprinting
and the zygotic genome in placental development, Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. (PNAS) 98, 4522-4527.
VASILIS PROMPONAS Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Physics, 1997
University of Athens, Greece, Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, 2004
International Society for Computational Biology, U.S.A. (Member) • Hellenic Society for
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Greece (Board Member) • Mikrobiokosmos,
Greece (Member)
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
PloS One (Academic Editor), U.S.A., Public Library of Science • ISRN Bioinformatics
(Member), Egypt and U.S.A., International Scholarly Research Network-Hindawi
Publishing Corporation • International Journal of Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Guest Editor), Switzerland, Inderscience Publishers •
International Journal of BioSciences and Technology (Member), India, IJBST Journal Index
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Membrane Protein Topology-Structure Prediction; Low Complexity, Compositionally
Biased Regions; Sequence Database Search; Computational Comparative Genomics;
Computational Synthetic/Systems Biology
Development of Novel Computational Genomics Web Services and Methods for the
Analysis of Low Complexity Regions in Amino Acid Sequences (PENEK)
Development of an Integrated Computer System for Text Mining Biomedical Databases
(HEALTH)
Cooprating Organization: University of Crete, Greece
Development of a Prototype Computer-aided System for Semi-automatically Identifying
Key Species of the Marine Benthic Macrofauna of Cyprus (AEIFORIA)
Cooperating Organizations: Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Cyprus;
Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Development of a Novel Bioinformatics Method for Recognizing Neighboring in Space
Transmembrane α-helices in Polytopic Transmmbrane Proteins by Information Encoded
in their Amino Acid Sequence (Bilateral Greece/Cyprus)
Cooperating Organization: University of Athens, Greece
Developing of Novel and Efficient Second-Order Learning and Optimisation Techniques
for Protein Structure Prediction (ORIZO)
Coopeating Organization: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Cy-Tera High Performance Computing Facility for Cyprus
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute (Coordinator) and external collaborators
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PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Nikolaou, N., Sampaziotis, P., Aplikioti, M., Drakos, A., Kirmitzoglou, I., Argyrou, M., Papamarkos, N., &
Promponas, V. J. (2010). A Versatile Semi-Automatic Taxon Identification System from Digital Images,
Conference, Bioidentify. In P. L. Nimis, & R. Vignes Lebbe (Eds.), Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress
and Problems (pp. 231-236). Trieste: EUT.
Ioannou, A., Fokianos, K., & Promponas, V. J. (2010). Spectral density ratio based clustering methods for
the binary segmentation of protein sequences: a comparative study. Biosystems, 100(2), 132-43.
Papanikolaou, N., Trachana, K., Theodosiou, T., Promponas, V. J., & Iliopoulos, I. (2009). Gene socialization:
gene order, GC content and gene silencing in Salmonella. BMC Genomics, 11(10), 597.
Savvides, A., Promponas, V. J., & Fokianos, K. (2008). Clustering of biological time series by cepstral
coefficients based distances. Pattern Recognition, 41, 2398-2412.
Nikolaou, N., Sampaziotis, P., Aplikioti, M., Drakos, A., Kirmitzoglou, I., Argyrou, M., Papamarkos, N., &
Promponas, V. J. (2010). A Versatile Semi-Automatic Taxon Identification System from Digital Images,
Conference, Bioidentify. In P. L. Nimis, R. Vignes Lebbe (Eds.), Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress
and Problems (pp. 231-236), Trieste: EUT.
Agathocleous, M., Christodoulou, G., Promponas, V. J. ,Christodoulou, C., Vassiliades, V., & Antoniou, A.
(2010). Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Nets: Can Weight
Updating for Each Residue Enhance Performance? In H. Papadopoulos, A. S. Andreou, & M. Bramer,
(Eds.), 6th IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, IFIP AICT
339 (pp. 128–137). Larnaca, Cyprus.
Promponas, V. J. (2009). A simple clustering approach for pathogenic strain identification based on local
and global amino acid compositional signatures from genomic sequences: the Escherichia genus case,
9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine. Larnaca,
Cyprus (CD-ROM).
Iliopoulos, I., Tsoka, S., Andrade, M. A., Enright, A. J., Carroll, M., Poullet, P., Promponas, V. J., Liakopoulos,
T., Palaios, G., Pasquier, C., Hamodrakas, S., Tamames, J., Yagnik, A. T., Tramontano, A., Devos, D., Blaschke,
C., Valencia, A., Brett, D., Martin, D., Leroy, C., Rigoutsos, I., Sander, C., & Ouzounis, C. A. (2007). Evaluation
of annotation strategies using an entire genome sequence. Bioinformatics, 19(6), 717-7263. [Featured
as a “Must read” article at the F1000 Biology]
Papasaikas, P. K., Bagos, P. G., Litou, Z. I., Promponas, V. J., & Hamodrakas, S. J. (2004). PRED-GPCR: GPCR
recognition and family classification server. Nucleic Acids Research, W380-382.
Promponas, V. J., Enright, A. J., Tsoka, S., Kreil, D., Leroy, C., Hamodrakas, S. J., Sander, C., & Ouzounis, C. A.
(2000). CAST: an iterative algorithm for the Complexity Analysis of Sequence Tracts. Bioinformatics,
16(10), 915-922.
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ALEXANDER KIRSCHEL Lecturer
STUDIES
University College London, U.K., B.Sc. in Economics, 1997
University College London, U.K., M.Sc. in Built Environment, 1998
University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Biology, 2008
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ecology; Evolution; Animal Behaviour; Ornithology; Biodiversity Conservation
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Biodiversity & Conservation (Associate Editor) Germany, Springer
Marie Curie Reintegration Grant
Funding: FP7, European Commission, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
Collier, T. C., Kirschel, A. N. G., & Taylor, C. E. (2010). Acoustic localization of antbirds in a Mexican
rainforest using a wireless sensor network. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128, 182-189.
Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., & Smith, T. B. (2009). Character displacement of song and morphology
in African tinkerbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
106, 8256-8261.
Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., Cohen, R. E., Buermann, W., Smith, T. B., & Slabbekoorn, H. (2009).
Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise.
Behavioral Ecology, 20, 1089-1095.
Kirschel, A. N. G., Earl, D. A., Yao, Y., Escobar, I., Vilches, E., Vallejo, E. E., & Taylor, C. E. (2009). Using songs to
identify individual Mexican Antthrush (Formicarius moniliger): A comparison of four classification
methods. Bioacoustics, 19, 1-20.
Kirschel, A. N. G. (2008). Novel courtship behavior in the Little Greenbul (Andropadus virens). Wilson
Journal of Ornithology, 120, 398-401
Trifa, V. M., Kirschel, A. N. G., Taylor, C. E., & Vallejo, E. (2008). Automated species recognition of antbirds
in a Mexican rainforest using Hidden Markov Models. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123,
2424-2431.
Trifa, V. M., Kirschel, A. N. G., Yao, Y., Taylor, C., & Girod, L. (2008). From bird species to individual songs
recognition: automated methods for localization and recognition in real habitats using wireless sensor
networks, Computational bioacoustics for assessing biodiversity. BfN-Scripten, German Federal Agency
for Nature Conservation (pp. 73-81). Bonn.
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LEONTIOS G. KOSTRIKIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
New York University, U.S.A., B.A. in Biochemistry, 1987
New York University, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Biochemistry, 1989
New York University, U.S.A., M.Ph. in Philosophy, 1990
New York University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Biochemistry, 1993
The New York Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. (Member) • The American Association for the
Advancement of Science, U.S.A. (Member) • European Biosafety Association, E.U.
(Member) • Marie Curie Fellow Association, European Commission (Member) •
International AIDS Society, U.S.A. (Member) • European Federation of Biotechnology, E.U.
(Member) • American Society for Microbiology, U.S.A.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Dataset Papers in Medicine (Genetic Section), Germany, Hindawi Publishing Cooperation •
The Scientific World Journal (Member), Germany, Hindawi Publishing Corporation • World
Journal of Critical Infectious Diseases (Member), Hong Kong, Baishideng Publishing Group
• Current HIV Research (Member), The Netherlands, Bentham Science Publishers
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 and HCV; Biotechnology of Nucleic Acids; Molecular
Diagnostics; Drug Design and Discovery; Vacine Development
Molecular Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) Infection in
Cyprus: Phylogenetic Distribution, Spread of Drug Resistance and Implications of HIV-1
‘Minor- Drug Resistant Variants’ on Antiretroviral Treatment
Coordination Action, European Cohort Coordinating Network on HIV Drug Resistance
(EuroHIVResistance)
Funding: FP6, European Commission
Research and Development Award, Development of New Technologies for the Detection
of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Agents
Funding: Birch Biomedical Research LLC, U.S.A.
Technological Development and Innovation. Genetic Studies of HCV Isoaltes from
Intravenous Drug Users
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Determination of Resistance to Antiretroviral Drugs and Prediction of Tropism in HIV-1
Strains from Patients in Cyprus
Implications of HCV Diversity on Disease Progression
Evaluation of HIV-1 Proviral Load as a Prognostic Marker of Clinical Progression in
Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
Cooperating Organization: University of Milan, Italy
PATENTS
Kostrikis, L. G. Birch Biomedical Research LLC, USA. Multi-Allelic Molecular Detection of SARSAssociated Coronavirus, U.S. Patent 7,709,188 (May 4, 2010)
PUBLICATIONS
Demetriou, V. L., van de Vijver, D. A. M. C, Kousiappa, I., Balotta, C., Clotet, B., Grossman, Z., Jørgensen, L.
B., Lepej, S. Z., Levy, I., Nielsen, C., Paraskevis, D., Poljak, M., Roman, F., Ruiz, L., Schmidt, J-C., Vandamme,
A-M., Van Laethem, K., Vercauteren, J., & Kostrikis, L.G. (2010). Cellular HIV-1 DNA Levels in Drug Sensitive
Strains Are Equivalent to Those in Drug Resistant Strains in Newly-Diagnosed Patients in Europe. PLoS
One, 5(6), e10976.
Demetriou, V., van de Vijver D. A. M. C., Hezka, J., The Cyprus IVDU Network., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2010).
Hepatitis C ‘Infection among Intravenous Drug Users Attending Therapy Programmes in Cyprus. Journal
of Medical Virology, 8(2), 263-270.
Vercauteren, J., Wensing A. M. J., van de Vijver D. A. M. C., Albert, J., Balotta, C., Hamouda, O., Kücherer, C.,
Struck D., Schmit, J. C., Asjo, B., Bruckova, M., Camacho, R., Clotet, B., Coughlan, S., Grossman, Z., Horban,
A., Korn, K., Kostrikis, L. G., Nielsen, C., Paraskevis, D., Poljak, M., Puchhammer-Stockl, E., Riva, C., Ruiz, L.,
Salminen, M., Schuurman, R., Sonnerborg, A., Stanekova, D., Stanojevic, M., Vandamme, A. M., & Boucher,
C. A. B. on behalf of the SPREAD-programme (2009). Transmission of Drug Resistant HIV is Stabilizing in
Europe. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 200(10), 1503-1508.
Kousiappa, I., Demetriades, I., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Near Full-Length Genetic Analysis of HIV-1
Sequences Derived from Cyprus: Evidence of a Highly Polyphyletic and Evolving Infection, AIDS Res.
Hum. Retrov, 25(8), 727-740.
Hadzinicolaou, A., Demetriou, V., Hezka, J., Wolfgang, B., Hadfield, L. T., & Kostrikis, L. (2009). Use of
Molecular Beacons and Multi-Allelic Real-Time PCR for Detection of and Discrimination between
Virulent Bacillus anthracis and other Bacillus Isolates in Clinical and Environmental Samples. Journal of
Microbiological Methods 78, 45-53.
Hadzinicolaou, A., Demetriou, L. V., Emanouel, M., Kakoyiannis, C., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Molecular
Beacon-Based Real-Time PCR Detection of Primary Isolates of Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella
Enteritidis in Environmental and Clinical Samples. BMC Microbiology, 9, 97-110.
Loizidou, E., Zeinalipour-Yazdi, C., Christophides, T., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Analysis of Binding
Parameters of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors: Correlates of Drug Inhibition and Resistance. Bioorganic and
Med. Chem., 17, 4806-4818.
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Kousiappa, I., van der Vijver D., Demetriades, I., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Genetic Analysis of HIV Type 1
Strains from Newly Infected Untreated Patients in Cyprus: High Genetic Diversity and Low Prevalence of
Drug Resistance. AIDS Res. Hum. Retrov., 25(1), 23-35.
Loizidou, E., Kousiappa, I., Themistocleous, G., Zeinalipour-Yazdi, C. D., van de Vijver D. A. M. C., &
Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Implications of HIV-1 M-Group Polymorphisms on Integrase Inhibitor Efficacy and
Resistance: Genetic and Structural in-silico Analysis. Biochemistry 48(1), 4-6.
Demetriou, V., van de Vijver D. A. M. C., The Cyprus IVDU Network., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Molecular
Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Infection in Cyprus: Evidence of Polyphyletic Infection. Journal of Medical
Virology, 81, 238-248.
Kostrikis L. G., et. al. (2002). Quantitation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I DNA Forms with the
Second Template Switch in Peripheral Blood Predicts Disease Progression Independently of Plasma RNA
Load. Journal of Virology, 76(20), 10099-10108.
Kostrikis L. G., et. al. (1998). A Chemokine Receptor CCR2 Allele Delays HIV-1 Disease Progression and is
Associated with a CCR5 Promoter Mutation. Nature Medicine, 4(3), 350-353.
Kostrikis L. G., et. al. (1998). Spectral Genotyping of Human Alleles. Science, 279(5354), 1228-1229.
ANTONIS KIRMIZIS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Lawrence University, U.S.A., B.A., 1995-1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A., Ph.D., 1999 - 2004
University of Cambridge, U.K., Postdoc, 2004-2009
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cancer; Epigenetics; Chromatin Biology; Control of Gene expression
ERC Starting grant- Functional and regulatory protein networks of chromatin modifying
enzymes
Health and Biological Sciences - Trancriptional control by arginine methylation of the
tumour suppressor p53
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PUBLICATIONS
Santos-Rosa, H., Kirmizis, A., Nelson, C., Bartke, T., Saksouk, N., Cote, J., & Kouzarides, T. (2009). Histone H3
tail clipping regulates gene expression. Nature Structural Molecular Biology, 16(1), 17-2.
Kirmizis, A., Santos-Rosa, H., Penkett, C. J., Singer, M. A., Green, R. D., & Kouzarides, T. (2009). Distinct
transcriptional outputs associated with mono- and dimethylated histone H3 arginine 2. Nature
Structural Molecular Biology, 16(4), 449-51.
Kirmizis, A., Santos-Rosa, H., Penkett, C. J., Singer, M. A., Green, R. D., & Kouzarides, T. (2009). Distinct
transcriptional outputs associated with mono- and dimethylated histone H3 arginine 2. Nature
Structural Molecular Biology,16(4), 449-51.
Kirmizis, A., Santos-Rosa, H., Penkett, C. J., Singer, M. A., Vermeulen, M., Mann M, Bähler, J., Green, R. D., &
Kouzarides, T. (2007). Arginine methylation at histone H3R2 controls deposition of H3K4 trimethylation.
Nature, 449(7164), 928-32.
Kirmizis, A., Bartley, S. M., Kuzmichev, A., Margueron, R., Reinberg, D., Green, R., & Farnham, P. J. (2004).
Silencing of human polycomb target genes is associated with methylation of histone H3 Lys 27. Genes &
Development, 18(13), 1592-605.
NIOVI SANTAMA Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, Degree in Biology, 1987
University of Sussex, U.K., M.Sc. in Genetic Manipulation and Molecular Biology, 1988
University of Sussex, U.K., Ph.D. in Neuroscience, 1992
European Molecular Biology Conference)-intergovernmental organization (EMBC),
Germany, National Delegate of Cyprus • EMBO Young Investigator Award Programme,
Germany, National Contact Point of Cyprus • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL), Germany, Alumni Association Board (Elected Vice Chair)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton; Centrosomes and ciliogenesis in mammalian cells;
Neurodegenerative Disease in Humans; RNA Metabolism and Nuclear Architecture
Investigating the mechanism that regulates Centrosome Duplication in Mammalian Cells
Cooperating Organization: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete
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Functional Characterisation of the Protein Nubp1 in Centrosome Duplication
Cooperating Organization: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Protein Complexes of CINAP: composite molecular targets for the understanding of
human disease
Cooperating Organizations: Welcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, U.K.;
The National Hellenic Research Fundation, Greece; Pharmaceutical Company Remedica,
Cyprus
The centrosomes in Cancer
Cooperating Organization: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete
PUBLICATIONS
Malekkou, A., Lederer, C. W., Lamond, A. I., & Santama, N. (2010). The nuclear ATPase/adenylate kinase
hCINAP is recruited to perinucleolar caps generated upon RNA pol.II inhibition. FEBS Lett., 584, 5594564.
Lederer, C. W., & Santama, N. (2008). Neural Stem Cells: mechanisms of fate specification and nuclear
reprogramming in regenerative medicine. Biotechnology Journal, 3, 1521-1538 (Invited review).
Drakou, C. E., Zographos, S. E., Malekkou, A., Santama, N., Hayes, J. M., Papageorgiou, D., Lazoura, E.,
Leonidas, D. D., Lamond, A. I., Siafaka-Kapadai, A., & Oikonomakos, N. G. (2008). Structural Studies of the
nuclear factor hCINAP in complex with ADP and Mg 2+ADP-PO4 3-, 4th Congress of the Greek
Crystallographic Association. Athens, Greece, Abstracts, 29 (Oral Presentation).
Charalambous, D., & Santama, N. (2008). Functional characterisation of KIF1Bbeta motor protein: A
contribution to the molecular analysis of motor neuron disease, The FEBS Journal 275: suppl. 1
(pp. 3A-13). Athens, Greece.
Christodoulou, A., Lederer, C. W., Surrey, T., Vernos, I., & Santama, N. (2006). Motor protein KIFC5A
interacts with Nubp1 and Nubp2 and is implicated in the regulation of centrosome duplication. J. Cell
Science, 119, 2035-2047.
Santama, N., Er, C. P., Ong, L. L., & Yu, H. (2004). Distribution and functions of kinectin isoforms. J. Cell
Science, 117, 4537-4549.
Santama, N., Krijnse-Locker, J., Griffiths, G., Noda, Y., Hirokawa, N., & Dotti, C. G. (1998). KIF2β, a new
kinesin superfamily protein, is associated with lysosomes and may be implicated in their centrifugal
translocation. EMBO Journal, 17, 5855-5867.
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PARIS SKOURIDES Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Brandeis University, U.S.A., B.A. in Biochemistry, 1997
The Rockefeller University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Biology, 2004
Society for Developmental Biology, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Developmental Biology; Nano-Biotechnology; Biological Imaging
Colloid and Interface Chemistry for Nanotechnology
Cooperating organizations: University of Oslo, Norway; Universidad de Granada, Spain;
University of Manchester, U.K.; Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Funding: COST ACTION D43, European Commission
Developing Nonometer-Scale Semiconductor Crystallite based in Vivo and in Vitro
Biological Applications
Cooperating Organizations: The Rockefeller University, U.S.A.; Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Development of a New Methodology for in Vivo, inducible and site-specific conjugation
of Quantum Dots to proteins and functional applications
Cooperating Organizations: The Rockefeller University, U.S.A.; CNRS-ESPCI, France
Early Toxicological Testing of Compound Library with the use of FETAX
Cooperating Organization: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Evaluation of Total Toxicity of effluents from several waste water treatment stations and
major water sources of Cyprus using Xenopus laevis as a model organism
Cooperating Organizations: Imperial College, U.K.; A.CH. Enviro-Consult Ltd, Cyprus
Addressing the Molecular Basis of Moprphogenetic Movements during Xenopus
Gastrulation with the use of Quantum Dot nanocrystals
Cooperating Organizations: The Rockefeller University, U.S.A; University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil
Funding: RPF, Cprus
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PUBLICATIONS
Charalambous, A., Andreou, M., & Skourides, P. A. (2009). Intein-mediated site-specific conjugation of
Quantum Dots to proteins in vivo. Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 9, 7(1). doi: 10.1186/1477315-7-9.
Stylianou, P., & Skourides, P.A. (2009). Imaging morphogenesis, in Xenopus with Quantum Dot
nanocrystals. Mech Dev.,126(10), 828-841.
Demetriou, M. C., Stylianou, P., Andreou, M., Yiannikouri, O., Tsaprailis, G., Cress, A. E., & Skourides, P.
(2008). Spatially and temporally regulated alpha6 integrin cleavage during Xenopus laevis
development. Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 366(3), 779-85.
Yan, I., Skourides, P., Chenbei, C., & Brivanlou, A. H. (2008). Samba, a Xenopus hnRNP expressed in neural
and neural crest tissues. Developmental Dynamics, 238(1), 204-209.
Muro, E., Fragola, A., Thomas P., Lequeux, N., Skourides, P. A., Zsolt, L., & Dubertret, B. (2010). Strategies
for quantum dots delivery into living cells, NaNaX 4. Munich (CD-ROM).
Hapeshis, K., Skourides, P., Smith, S. R., & Skourides, I. (2009). Biodrying Municipal Solid Waste in a Rotary
Drum Reactor. The Effect of Biomass Temperature and Inoculation, ISWA Beacon Conference. Available
from: http://www.iswabeacon.rs/files/Presentations/S1/S106.ppt
Charalambous, A., Andreou, M., & Skourides, P. A. (2009). Intein-mediated site-specific conjugation of
Quantum Dots to proteins in vivo. J Nanobiotechnology, 7(9). doi: 10.1186/1477-3155-7-9.
Dubertret, B., Skourides, P., Norris, D. J., Noireaux, V., Brivanlou, A. H., & Libchaber, A. (2002). In vivo
imaging of quantum dots encapsulated in phospholipid micelles. Science, 29(2)98(5599),1759-62.
Skourides, P., Perera, S. A., & Ren, R. (1999). Polarized distribution of Bcr-Abl in migrating myeloid cells
and co-localization of Bcr-Abl and its target proteins. Oncogene, 18(5), 1165-76.
KATERINA STRATI Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A., Ph.D., 2007
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human papillomavirus; Pluripotent cells; Telomeres and telomerase
Examining the role of telomeres and telomerase in the onset and progression of HPVrelated cancers
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Modulation of the DNA Damage Response by Human Papillomavirus E7
Cooperating Organisation: National Cancer Centre, Japan
Funding: RPF, Cyprus.
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Lambert, P. F., & Strati, K. (2009). Oncogenic Viruses. In Encyclopedia of Microbiology (pp. 421-429). U.K.:
Elsevier.
Park, J. W., Pitot, H. C., Strati, K., Spardy, N., Duensing, S., Grompe, M., & Lambert, P. F. (2010). Deficiency in
Fanconi Anemia Pathway Sensitizes Mice to HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancer. Cancer Res., 70,
9959-68.
Jabbar, S., Strati, K., Shin, M. K., Pitot, H. C., & Lambert, P. F. (2010). Human papillomavirus type 16 E6 and
E7 oncoproteins act synergistically to cause head and neck cancer in mice. Virology, 407, 60-67.
Li, H., Collado, M., Villasante, A., Strati, K., Ortega, S., Canamero, M., Blasco, M. A., & Serrano, M. (2009). The
Ink4/Arf locus is a barrier for iPS cell reprogramming. Nature, 460, 1136-1139.
Marion, R. M., Strati, K., Li, H., Murga, M., Blanco, R., Ortega, S., Fernandez-Capetillo, O., Serrano, M., &
Blasco, M. A. (2009). A p53-mediated DNA damage response limits reprogramming to ensure iPS cell
genomic integrity. Nature, 460, 1149-1153.
Marion, R. M., Strati, K., Li, H., Tejera, A., Schoeftner, S., Ortega, S., Serrano, M., & Blasco, M. A. (2009).
Telomeres acquire embryonic stem cell characteristics in induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell,
4, 141-154.
Strati, K., & Lambert, P. F. (2008). Human Papillomavirus Association with Head and Neck Cancers:
Understanding Virus Biology and Using It in the Development of Cancer Diagnostics. Expert Opin Med
Diagn, 2, 11-20.
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ACADEMIC STAFF
Nikos Chronakis
Assistant Professor
Angelos M. Efstathiou
Professor
Sophia C. Hayes
Lecturer
Constantina P. Kapnisi-Christodoulou
Lecturer
Anastasios D. Keramidas
Assistant Professor
Panayiotis A. Koutentis
Associate Professor
Epameinondas B. Leontidis
Professor
Athanasios Nicolaides
Associate Professor
Ioannis Pashalides
Associate Professor
Costas S. Patrickios
Professor
Eftychia Pinakoulaki
Lecturer
Anastasios Tasiopoulos
Assistant Professor
Charis R. Theocharis
Professor
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The Department of Chemistry was established in 2000, although from 1992-2000 the
Department functioned as a Sector in the Department of Natural Sciences. At present, the
Department has 14 faculty members, 11 postdoctoral researchers, four technicians, one IT
Assistant, two secretaries and one Accounting Officer. There are 199 undergraduate students
and 76 graduate students currently enrolled; of these 36 are Ph.D. students--which is the largest
Ph.D. programme in the University of Cyprus. To date, 41 Ph.D. and 37 M.Sc. students have
graduated from the Department. The ten research and three teaching laboratories of the
Department are fully equipped; the instruments, valued at approximately 5 million euros,
include: a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer, powder XRD, multinuclear 300 and 500 MHz NMR,
a MALDI TOF- TOF, among others. During the last five years, the academic staff of the
Department has published more than 373 papers in refereed international journals and has
registered three patents. This research is supported by various funding organizations, including
the European Union, the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, and local industry. For the
period 2005-2010, the Department received approximately 8.3 million euros in funding for its
research programmes.
The Chemistry Department is also involved in programmes related to matters concerning
Cypriot society as described below:
1. The Department collaborates with local industry and other local bodies in areas of mutual
interest, carrying out applied research directed to their specific needs.
2. The Department provides consultancy services to local industry.
3. The Department organizes conferences in Cyprus with the participation of scientists from
around the world.
4. Members of the Department have participated actively in the successful preparation of Greek
Cypriot students in International Chemistry Olympiads and have appeared in front of
Parliamentary Committees to offer expert technical advice.
Athanasios Nicolaides
Chairperson
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FAC U LT Y O F P U RE A N D A P P L I ED S C I E N C E S
D e p a r t m e nt o f Ch e m i s tr y
NIKOS CHRONAKIS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
University of Crete, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1994
University of Crete, Greece, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, 2000
Association of Greek Chemists, Greece • European Association for Chemical and
Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) (Member and Representative of the EuCheMS Organic
Division for Cyprus)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Synthesis of novel multi-adducts of fullerene C60 utilizing the tether-directed remote
functionalization method; Synthesis of enantiomerically pure bis- and trisadducts of C60
with C2- and C3-symmetrical inherently chiral addition patterns. Study of their behavior in
chiral photosensitization and chiral recognition; Synthesis of helically chiral [60] fullerene
polymers; Synthesis and characterization of enantiomerically pure macrocyclic oligomalonate tethers
Design and Synthesis of Novel [60] Fullerene Helically Chiral Polymers
Synthesis of Optically Active Fullerene Derivatives: A Study in Chiral Photosensitization
Cooperating Organizations: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany; University of Crete, Greece; Aegis Pharmaceutical Company, Cyprus
Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Activity of Inherently Chiral Fullerene
Derivatives
Cooperating Organizations: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany; University of Crete, Greece; Aegis Pharmaceutical Company, Cyprus
The First Molecular [60]Fullerene Capsule: Design and Synthesis via the Supramolecular
Approach
Cooperating Organizations: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany; University of Crete, Greece
The First Three-dimensional Covalent Organic Fullerene Framework Consisted of Chiral
Cubic Building Units
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Mass and NMR Spectroscopic Measurements in Organic and Biological Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS
Durdagi, S., Mavromoustakos, T., Chronakis, N., & Papadopoulos M. G. (2008). Computational design of
novel fullerene analogues as potential HIV-1 PR inhibitors: Analysis of the binding interactions between
fullerene inhibitors and HIV-1 PR residues using 3D QSAR, molecular docking and molecular dynamics
simulations. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 16, 9957-9974.
ANGELOS M. EFSTATHIOU Professor
STUDIES
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 1981
University of Connecticut, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 1985
University of Connecticut, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 1989
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Hellenic Catalysis Society, Greece (Member of Board) • European Federation of Catalysis
Societies (EFCATS), Brussels (Member of Board)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development of Novel Catalytic Materials; In Situ Catalyst Surface Characterisation;
Environmental Catalysis - Air De-pollution Technologies; Mechanistic Studies - Use of
Operando Techniques; Modelling of Transient Kinetic Experiments
EDITORIAL BOARDS
The Open Environmental Engineering Journal (Member), U.S.A., Bentham Science
Publishers • Recent Patents in Materials Science (Member), U.S.A., Bentham Science
Publishers
An in-depth Investigation of Catalytic Applications of Novel Carbon NanotubeSupported Metal Catalysts: The Case of H2 Lean de-NOx and Tar Steam Reforming
Reactions
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Commercialization of H2-SCR of NOx – Patent Exploitation
Cooperating Organization: Linde Engineering AG, Germany
Funding: Linde AG, University of Cyprus
Biomass Fluidised Bed Gasification with in-situ Hot Gas Cleaning
Cooperating Organizations: ZSW, Germany; ICEHT/FORTH, Greece; Technical University
of Vienna, Austria; University of Stuttgart, Germany; Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland;
Biomasse-Kraftwerk Gussing, Austria; GE Jenbacher, Germany; Institute for Energy
Technology, Norway
Mobile Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Measurements and Emission Control
Systems Evaluation
Cooperating Organizations: CERTH/CPERI, Greece; National Research Council of
Italy/Instituto Motori, Italy
Studying the Transient Oxygen Storage and Release Properties of Various Commercial
Ceria- and Zirconia-based Materials Towards TWC Applications
Cooperating Organization: MEL-Chemicals, U.K.
Funding: MEL-Chemicals, U.K.
Experimental and Theoretical Mechanistic Studies of the Water Gas-Shift Reaction,
Cooperating Organizations: CSIC-ICP, Spain; University of California Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Development of a Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory
Cooperating Organization: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Processing of Biomass Gasification
Cooperating Organization: Institute for Thermal Power Equipment, Bucharest & Romania
Chameleon-like Adoptive Nanocomposite Catalytic Materials for the Optimization of
Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction (LT-WGS)
Cooperating Organizations: Demokritos, Greece; CSIC-ICP, Spain
Synthesis of Novel Catalytic Materials for Low-Temperature WGS Reaction
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cincinatti, U.S.A.; CSIC-ICP, Spain
Development and Studies of New Materials Towards Tar Steam Reforming for Hydrogen
Production
Cooperating Organizations: Demokritos, Greece; CSIC-ICP, Spain
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Development of a Novel Method for the Elongation of Life Time of Deactivated ThreeWay Catalytic Converter
Cooperating Organizations: CSIC-ICP, Spain; STELCO, Cyprus; University of Athens, Greece
Development and Demonstration of a Novel Technology for an Integrated After
Treatment of Ship Flue Gas Streams
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; eMedi8 Digital
Solutions Ltd, Cyprus; Proplan Ltd, Cyprus; S.M.E.C. Marine & Engineering Co. Ltd, Cyprus
Establishment of the Infrastructure for Time-Resolved Step-Scan Fourier Transform
Infrared Spectroscopy
Hydrogen Production via Catalytic Steam Reforming of Bio-Oil Derived from Biomass
Gasification
Cooperating Organization: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Development of New Materials for Low-Temperature Industrial NOx Control Catalytic
Technology Applications Using H2/CO and H2/HC Gas Mixtures as Reducing Agents
Cooperating Organization: University of Bucharest, Romania
PATENTS
Efstathiou, A. M., Costa, C. N., & Fierro, J. L. G. Catalyst Containing Platinum on a Support
Consisting of Magnesium Oxide and Cerium Oxide for the Reduction of NO to N2 with
Hydrogen under NOx Oxidation Conditions, European Patent No. 1 475 149 B1 (May 21,
2008)
Efstathiou, A. M., Savva, P. G., & Costa, C. N. Catalyst Containing Platinum and Palladium for
the Selective Reduction of NOx with Hydrogen (H2-SCR), European Patent No. EP 2 177 256
A1 (April 15, 2010)
Efstathiou, A. M., Savva, P. G., & Costa, C. N. Catalyst Containing Platinum and Palladium for
the Selective Reduction of NOx with Hydrogen (H2-SCR), US 2010/0092360 A1 (April 14,
2010)
Efstathiou, A. M., & Olympiou, G. Catalyst Consisting of Platinum Supported on Chemically
Promoted Magnesium Oxide and Cerium Dioxide Towards H2-SCR, WO 2010/145777 A2
(December 23, 2010)
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PUBLICATIONS
Savva, P. G., Polychronopoulou, K., Ryzkov, V. A., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2010). Low-Temperature Catalytic
Decomposition of Ethylene into H2 and Secondary Carbon Nanotubes over Ni/CNTs. Applied Catalysis
B: Environmental, 93, 314-324.
Constantinou, D. A., Fierro, J. L. G., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2010). A Comparative Study of the Steam
Reforming of Phenol towards H2 Production over Natural Calcite, Dolomite and Olivine Materials.
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 95, 255-269.
Constantinou, D. A., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2010). Low-Temperature Steam Reforming of Phenol towards
H2 Production over Novel Supported-Rh Catalysts. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 96, 276-289.
Kalamaras, C. M., Panagiotopoulou, P., Kondarides, D. I., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2009). Kinetic and
Mechanistic Studies of the Water-gas Shift Reaction over Pt/TiO2 Catalyst. Journal of Catalysis, 264, 117129.
Constantinou, D. A., Fierro, J. L. G., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2009). The Phenol Steam Reforming Reaction
toward H2 Production on Natural Calcite. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 90, 347-359.
Polychronopoulou, K., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2009). Novel Fe-Mn-Zn-Ti-O Mixed Metal Oxide for H2S
Removal from Industrial Gas Streams. Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 4367- 4372.
Christou, S. Y., Bradshaw, H., Butler, C., Darab, J., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2009). Effect of Thermal Aging on
the Transient Kinetics of Oxygen Storage and Release of Commercial CexZr1-xO2-based Solids. Top.
Catal, 52, 2013 - 2018.
Savva, P. G., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2008). The Influence of Reaction Temperature on the Chemical
Structure and Surface Concentration of Active NOx in H2-SCR over Pt/MgO-CeO2: SSITKA-DRIFTS and
Transient Mass Spectrometry Studies. Journal of Catalysis, 257, 324 - 333.
Zeinalipour-Yazdi*, C. D., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2008). Preadsorbed Water-Promoted Mechanism of the
Water-Gas Shift Reaction. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112, 19030-19039.
Kalamaras, C. M., Olympiou, G. G., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2008). The Water-gas Shift Reaction on Pt/γ-Al2O3
Catalyst: Operando SSITKA-DRIFTS-Mass Spectroscopy Studies. Catal. Today, 138, 228-234.
Costa, C. N., Savva, P. G., Fierro, J. L. G., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (2007). Industrial H2-SCR of NO on a Novel
Pt/MgO-CeO2 Catalyst. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 75, 147-156.
Efstathiou*, A. M., Kladi, A., Tsipouriari, V. A., & Verykios, X. E. (1996). Reforming of Methane With Carbon
Dioxide to Synthesis Gas over Supported Rhodium Catalysts: 2. A Steady-State Tracing Analysis:
Mechanistic Aspects of the Carbon and Oxygen Reaction Pathways to Form CO. Journal of Catalysis,
158, 64-75.
Goula, M. A., Lemonidou, A., & Efstathiou*, A. M. (1996). Characterization of Carbonaceous Species
Formed During Reforming of CH4 with CO2 over Ni/CaO-Al2O3 Catalysts Studied by Various Transient
Techniques. Journal of Catalysis, 161, 626-640.
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SOPHIA C. HAYES Lecturer
STUDIES
Luther College, U.S.A., B.A. in Chemistry and Art, 1996
University of Washington, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, 2001
American Chemical Society, U.S.A. • Pancyprian Union of Greek Chemists, Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Protein Folding and Aggregation Mechanism; Photochemistry of Small HalogenContaining Molecules; Photophysics of Semiconducting Conjugated Polymers
Spectroscopic Study of the Mechanism of Amyloid Fibril Formation
Solution-Phase Halooxide Photochemistry
Cooperating Organizations: CNRS, France; University of Paris-Sud, France
Benzo[1,2,4]triazinones: Inhibitors of β-Amyloid Aggregation – New Leads for the fight
Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Cooperating Organizations: University of Bari, Italy; Novamechanics Ltd, Cyprus
Chameleon-like Adaptive Nanocomposite Catalytic Materials for Optimization of Low
Temperature Water Gas Shift Reaction (LT-WGS)
Solution-Phase Halooxide Photochemistry
Cooperating Organizations: CNRS, France; University of Paris-Sud, France
Development of the Infrastructure of a Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory
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PUBLICATIONS
Glowe, J. F., Mathieu, P., David, B., Hayes, S. C., Gardebien, F., & Silva, C. (2010). Charge-transfer excitons in
strongly coupled organic semiconductors. Physical Review B, 81, 041201.
Hayes, S. C., & Silva, C. (2010). Analysis of the excited-state absorption spectral bandshape of
oligofluorenes. Journal of Chemistry Physics, 132, 214510. *Selected for the July 2010 issue of the AIP
Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
Pieridou, G., & Hayes, S. C. (2009). UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of TTR(105-115): Determination of
the pKa of Tyr. Physical Chemistry Chemistry Physics, 11, 5302–5309.
Pieridou, G., Avgousti-Menelaou, C.,Tamamis, P., Archontis, G., & Hayes, S. C. (2010). UV Resonance
Raman Study TTR(105–115) Structural Evolution as a Function of Temperature, AIP Conference
Proceedings of the XXIInd International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, 1267 (pp. 871-872). U.S.A.
doi:10.1063/1.3482862.
Pieridou, G., & Hayes, S. C. (2008). UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of TTR(105-115): Determination of
the pKa of Tyr, Proceedings of the XXIst International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (pp. 526-527).
London.
CONSTANTINA P. KAPNISSI - CHRISTODOULOU Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Cyprus, Cyprus, B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1999
Louisiana State University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, 2004
American Chemical Society (ACS), U.S.A. • Pancyprian Union of Chemists, Cyprus •
Division of Analytical Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular
Sciences (DAC–EuCheMS), Europe (Cyprus Representative)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development of Electrophoretic, Chromatographic and Electrochromatographic
Methods for Improved Achiral and Chiral Separations of Various Classes of Analytes; Use
of the Hyphenated Technique Capillary Electrophoresis-mass Spectrometry (CE-MS) for
the Separation, Detection and Quantitation of Various Classes of Analytes; Application of
the Optimum Separation Conditions in Biological, Natural and Food Samples;
Determination of the Most Effective Sample Pre-treatment Methods; Synthesis,
Characterization and Use of Chiral Ionic Liquids in Capillary Electrophoresis for Improved
Separations and Better Efficiencies; Ιmaging of Individual Amyloid Plaques for the
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Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease using Near-field Third-harmonic-generation (THG)
Microscopy
Enantioselective Analysis Using Microsensors and Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary
Chromatography for Compounds of Clinical Importance
Cooperating Organization: National Institute of Research for Electrochemistry and
Condensed Matter, Romania
Chiral and Achiral Separations Using Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC)/Mass
Spectrometry (MS) and Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography (MEKC)
Separation of Aminoacids and Cholinesterase Inhibitors by Use of Chromatography and
Capillary Electrochromatography
Cooperating Organizations: University of Extremadura, Spain; The Cyprus Institute of
Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus
PATENTS
Warner, I. M., Schlenoff, J. B., & Kapnissi, C. P. Analytical Separations With Polyelectrolyte
Layers, Molecular Micelles, or Zwitterionic Polymers, U.S. Patent No. 7,314,550 (January, 1,
2008)
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Nicolaou, I. & Kapnissi-Christodoulou, C. P. (2010). Analysis of Polyphenols Using Capillary Zone
Electrophoresis – Determination of the Most Effective Wine Sample Pre-Treatment Method.
Electrophoresis, 31(23-24), 3895-3902.
ANASTASIOS D. KERAMIDAS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
University of Ioannina, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1988
University of Ioannina, Greece, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1992
American Chemical Society, U.S.A. • Green Chemistry Network, U.K.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry; Mechanisms of Inorganic Reactions; Structural
Characterisation of Inorganic Compounds in Solution; Synthesis of Molecules with
Electrocatalytic and Photochemical Properties; Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Bionorganic Chemistry and Applications (Associate Editor), International, Hindawi
Molecular Tracers of the Antineoplastic Chromanol-ester Activity
Cooperating Organizations: EPOS-Iasis, Europe; R&D Biomedical Research, Greece
Novel Vitamin E-Biphosphonates: A New Therapeutic Approach targeting Bone Loss
associated with Osteoporosis and Bone Related Malignancies
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; University of
Adelaide, South Australia; EPOS-Iasis, Europe; R&D Biomedical Research, Greece
Photocatalytic preparation of hydrogen peroxide from redox active metal-organic
complexes
Cooperating Organization: University of Patras, Greece
New methods for the assessment of food quality and authenticity by EPR
Cooperating Organization: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
Crans, D. C., Zhang, B., Gaidamauskas, E., Keramidas, A. D., Willsky, G.R., & Roberts, C. R. (2010). Is
Vanadate Reduced by Thiols under Biological Conditions? Changing the Redox Potential of V(V)/V(IV) by
Complexation in Aqueous Solution. Inorganic Chemistry, 49(9), 4245-4256.
Maltezou, E., Stylianou, M., Roy, S., Drouza, C., & Keramidas, A. D. (2010). Synthesis, Solution, and
Structural Characterization of Tetrahydrofurany l-2,2-Bisphosphonic Acid Disodium Salt. Bioinorganic
Chemistry and Applications, Art. No. 563875.
Drouza, C., Stylianou, M., & Keramidas, A. D. (2009). NMR characterization and dynamics of vanadium(V)
complexes with tripod (hydroquinonate/phenolate) iminodiacetate ligands in aqueous solution. Pure
Appl. Chem., 81(7), 1313-1321.
Nikolakis, V. A., Tsalavoutis, J. T., Stylianou, M., Evgeniou, E., Jakusch, T., Melman, A., Sigalas, M. P., Kiss, T.,
Keramidas, A. D., & Kabanos, T. A. (2008). Vanadium(V) Compounds with the Bis-(hydroxylamino)-1,3,5triazine Ligand, H(2)bihyat: Synthetic, Structural, and Physical Studies of [(V2O3)-O-V(bihyat)(2)] and of
the Enhanced Hydrolytic Stability Species cis-[(VO2)-O-V(bihyat)](-). Inorganic Chemistry, 47(24),
11698-11710.
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Stylianou, M., Drouza, C., Viskadourakis, Z., Giapintzakis, J., & Keramidas, A. D. (2008). Synthesis,
structure, magnetic properties and aqueous solution characterization of p-hydroquinone and phenol
iminodiacetate copper(ii) complexes. Dalton Transactions, 44, 6188-6204.
Drouza, C., & Keramidas, A. D. (2008). Solid state and aqueous solution characterization of rectangular,
tetranuclear VIV/V-p-semiquinonate/hydroquinonate complexes exhibiting a proton induced electron
transfer. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(16), 7211-7224.
Chilas, G. I., Stylianou, M., Kubicki, M., Vaimakis, T., Kögerler, P., Keramidas, A. D., & Kabanos, T. A. (2008).
Polynuclear cobalt(II/III) sulfites: Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of the octanuclear cluster
(NH4)11(Li⊂ [Co4 IICo4 III(SO3) 16(NH3)8])·10H2O encapsulating a lithium cation. Inorganic Chemistry,
47(11), 4451-4453.
Keramidas, A. D., Drouza, C., & Stylianou, M. (2010). p-Semiquinone and Hydroquinone Bridged V(IV/V)
Complexes, Structure, Magnetic and Spectroscopic properties, Paramagnetic Materials Conference.
Orlando, U.S.A. (CD-ROM).
Keramidas, A. D., Drouza, C., Stylianou, M. (2010). VIV/VV – Hydroquinonate/p-Semiquinonate
Complexes; Models for the H+ / e- Assorted Reactions in Biological Systems, 2nd North America-GreeceCyprus Workshop on Paramagnetic Materials. Syros, Greece (CD-ROM).
Drouza, C., & Keramidas, A. D. (2008). Solid state and aqueous solution characterization of rectangular,
tetranuclear VIV/V-p-semiquinonate/hydroquinonate complexes exhibiting a proton induced electron
transfer. Inorganic Chemistry, 47(16), 7211-7224.
Crans, D. C, Keramidas, A. D., HooverLitty, H., Anderson, O. P., Miller, M. M., Lemoine, L. M.,
PleasicWilliams, S., Vandenberg, M., Rossomando, A. J., & Sweet, L. J. (1997). Synthesis, structure, and
biological activity of a new insulinomimetic peroxovanadium compound: Bisperoxovanadium
imidazole monoanion. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 119(23), 5447-5448.
Crans, D. C., Holst, H., Keramidas, A. D., & Rehder, D. (1995). A Slow Exchanging Vanadium(V) Peptide
Complex – Vanadium (V) Glycine Tyrosine. Inorganic Chemistry, 34(10), 2524-2534.
PANAYIOTIS A. KOUTENTIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K., B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry, 1992
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K., Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, 1997
American Chemical Society, U.S.A. • International Society of Heterocyclic Chemists,
International • Royal Society of Chemistry, Europe
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sulfur-Nitrogen Heterocyclic Chemistry; Organic Radicals and Polyazaacenes;
Conjugated and Non-conjugated Heteroarene Polymers; Biologically Active
Heteroarenes – Medicinal Chemistry; Chemoinformatics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Arkivoc (Scientific Editor, National Representative, & Reviewer), U.S.A., ARKAT USA, Inc. •
Tetrahedron (Peer Executive Reviewer), The Netherlands, Elsevier
Molecular Electronics and Photonics
Cooperating Organizations: Technological University of Cyprus (Host), Cyprus; University
of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Erlangen, Germany; Imperial College London, U.K.
Chemoinformatic solutions for the identification and optimization of agents for the
treatment of thalassaemia
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Host), Cyprus;
Novamechanics Ltd, Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Washington
(Markey Molecular Medicine Centre), U.S.A.; Thalassemia Centre Makarios Hospital,
Medical and Public Health Services (Ministry of Health), Cyprus
Mass spectroscopic measurements and NMR in Organic and Biological Chemistry,
Research Infrastructure
Benzo (1,2,4) Triazinones: Inhibitors of β-Amyloid Aggregation - New leads for the fight
against Alzheimer's Disease
Cooperating Organizations: University of Bari, Italy; Novamechanics Ltd, Cyprus and
Greece; Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus
Design, Synthesis and biological evaluation on cardiovaxcular system of new selective in
hibitors of soluble quanylyl cyclise
Cooperating Organization: University of Patras, Greece
Ring transformation of 1,2,3-Dithiazolimines into Bifunctional Indoles
Early Toxicological Testing of Compound Library with use of FETAX
Cooperating Organizations: Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus; University of Sao
Paolo, Brazil
New Chemistry Of 1,2,3-Dithiazole
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Synthesis of Canthinones: Small Nature Products with Anticancer Properties
Cooperating Organization: Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus
Modeling, Prediction, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel MEK inhibitors
Cooperating Organization: Alexander Fleming Institute, Vari, Greece
Chemoinformatic Software Development: Modelling, Virtual biological screening of
newmolecular structures with desirable characteristics
Cooperating Organizations: Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus; National Technical
University of Athens, Greece
Development of QSAR Models, Design of Biologically Active Compounds and Their
Virtual Screening – Application towards the Treatment of Mediterranean Anemia
Cooperating Organizations: Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus; National Technical
University of Athens, Greece; Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus
The Reactivation of the HbF for the Treatment of Haemoglobinopathis
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus;
Department of Health, Lucille P. Markey Genetic Medicine Center, U.K; Pancypriot
Antianemia Union
New Chemistry of Pyrazoles: Biologicaly Active Compounds
Cooperating Organizations: Cyano Research Corporation Ltd, Cyprus; University of Ulm,
Germany; Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus; Medochemie Ltd, Cyprus
Benzo[1,2,4]triazinones: Inhibitors of β-Amyloid Aggregation – New Leads for the Fight
Against Alzheimer’s Disease
Funding: RPF, Cyprus, HEALTH AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Biotechnology and Drugs).
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Koutentis, P. A., & Ioannidou, H. A. (2010). Thiazoles. In E. Schaumann (Ed.), Science of Synthesis
Knowledge Updates 2010/1 (Vol. 11, Product Class 17, pp. 267-391) [Invited Author].
Koutentis, P. A. (2008). 1, 2 ,5-Thiadiazoles. In V. V. Zhdankin, (Ed.), Comprehensive Heterocyclic
Chemistry III (Vol. 5, pp. 515-565) [Invited Author].
Koutentis, P. A., & Constantinides, C. P. (2008).1, 3, 4-Thiadiazoles. In V. V. Zhdankin, (Ed.), Comprehensive
Heterocyclic Chemistry III (Vol. 5, pp. 566-605) [Invited Author].
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Koutentis, P. A., & Michaelidou, S. S. (2010). The conversion of 2-cyano cyanothioformanilides into
3-aminoindole-2-carbonitriles using triphenylphosphine. Tetrahedron, 66, 6032-6039.
Koutentis, P. A., & Mirallai, S. (2010). Reinvestigating the Synthesis of N-Arylbenzamidines from
Benzonitriles and Anilines in the Presence of AlCl3. Tetrahedron, 66, 5134-5139.
Michaelidou, S. S., & Koutentis, P. A. (2010). Detosylation of 3-Amino-1-tosylindole-2-carbonitriles using
DBU and Thiophenol. Tetrahedron, 66, 3016-3023.
Gollner, A., & Koutentis, P. A. (2010). Two-Step Total Syntheses of Canthin-6-one Alkaloids: New One-Pot
Sequential Pd-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling and Cu-Catalyzed Amidation Reaction. Org. Lett., 12,
1352-1355.
Kalogirou, A. S., Koutentis, P. A., & Rikkou, M. D. (2010). The synthesis of pyrrolo[2,3-c][1,2,6]thiadiazine5-carbonitriles from (4H-1,2,6-thiadiazin-4-ylidene)malononitriles. Tetrahedron, 66, 1817-1820.
Michaelidou, S. S., & Koutentis, P. A. (2010). Microwave assisted synthesis of 3-aminoindole-2carbonitriles from anthranilonitriles via N-unprotected 2-(cyanomethylamino)benzonitriles.
Tetrahedron, 66, 685-688.
Christoforou, I. C., Kalogirou, A. S., & Koutentis, P. A. (2009). The Preparation of Percyano-1,3,4-thiadiazole
and Percyanothiazole via 1,2,3-Dithiazole Chemistry. Tetrahedron, 65, 9967-9972.
Ioannidou, H. A., & Koutentis, P. A. (2009). The conversion of isothiazoles into pyrazoles using hydrazine.
Tetrahedron, 65, 7023-7037.
Kalogirou, A. S., & Koutentis, P. A. (2009). The degradation of 4,5-dichloro-1,2,3-dithiazolium chloride in
wet solvents. Tetrahedron, 65, 6859-6862.
Kalogirou, A. S., & Koutentis, P. A. (2009). The reaction of 4,5-dichloro-1,2,3-dithiazolium chloride with
DMSO: an improved synthesis of 4-chloro-1,2,3-dithiazol-5H-one. Tetrahedron, 65, 6855-6858.
Koutentis, P. A., Gollner, A., Lo Re, D., & Loizou, G. (2010). New routes to azafluoranthenes, IV
International Conference of the CBC series, Modern Aspects of Chemistry of Heterocycles. St Petersburg:
ICSPF PRESS.
EPAMEINONDAS B. LEONTIDIS Professor
STUDIES
Metsovion National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Diploma in Chemical
Engineering, 1985
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 1990
European Association for the Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS), Brussels,
Belgium, (Executive Committee Member) • Pancyprian Union of Chemists (Π.Ε.Ε.Χ.),
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Cyprus (President) • American Chemical Society, U.S.A. • European Colloids and Interfaces
Society (ECIS), Europe • Technical Chamber of Greece (ΤΕΕ), Greece • Society of Scientists
and Engineers, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Physical Chemistry of Colloids and Interfaces; Organic / Inorganic Hybrid Materials; Thin
films; Molecular Simulation Methods; Langmuir Monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett
Films
COST D-43
Cooperating Organizations: European Colloid and Interface Science Society, Europe
Funding: COST, European Commission
Simulation of Biopolymers and Materials (SIMBIOMA)
Cooperating Organizations: Several Collaborating Laboratories throughout Europe
Funding: ESF
Silicate-based boron adsorbents for use in desalination
Cooperating Organizations: University of Patras, Greece; Dhekelia Desalination Plant,
Cyprus
Antioxidant Enzymes in virgin olive oil. Structure and Biotechnological Applications
Cooperating Organization: National Hellenic Research of Athens, Greece
Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production using thin films of Oxide Semiconductors
Study of specific ion effects in membrane-mimetic systems of zwitterionic lipids
Cooperating Organizations: Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces; Golm,
Germany; University of Patras, Greece; National Hellenic Research of Athens, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Leontidis, E. (2010). Phospholipid aggregates as model systems to understand ion-specific effects:
Experiments and Models. In W. Kunz (Ed.), Specific Ion Effects (pp. 55-84). Singapore: World Scientific.
Koupanou, E., Ahualli, S., Glatter, O., Delgado, A., Krumeich, F., & Leontidis, E. (2010). Stabilization of lead
sulfide nanoparticles by cationic polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions: A detailed investigation of
stabilization efficiencies. Langmuir, 26(22), 16909-16920.
Leontidis, E., Aroti, A., & Belloni, L. (2009). DPPC liquid-expanded monolayers as model systems to
understand the anionic Hofmeister series. 1. A tale of models. J. Phys. Chem. B, 113(5), 1447-1459.
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Leontidis, E., & Aroti, A. (2009). DPPC liquid-expanded monolayers as model systems to understand the
anionic Hofmeister series.2. Ion partitioning is mostly a matter of size. J. Phys. Chem. B, 113(5),
1460-1467.
Viswanath, P., Aroti, A., Motschmann, H., & Leontidis, E. (2009). VSFG spectroscopic investigation of the
interaction of thiocyanate with zwitterionic phospholipid monolayers at the air-water interface. J. Phys.
Chem. B, 113(44), 14816–14823.
Mallouri, R., Keramidas, A. N., Brezesinski, G., & Leontidis E. (2008). Monolayer properties of surfaceactive metalorganic complexes with a tunable headgroup. J. Colloid Int. Sci., 317, 544-555.
Lioudakis, E., Koupanou, E., Kanari, C., Leontidis, E., & Othonos, A. (2008). Optical properties of
polyelectrolyte-quantum dot multilayer films prepared using the layer by layer self assembly method. J.
Appl. Phys., 103, 083511, 6.
Aroti, A., Leontidis, E., Maltseva, E., & Brezesinski, G. (2004). Effect of Hofmeister Anions on DPPC
Langmuir Monolayers at the Air-Water Interface. J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 15238-15245.
Leontidis, E., Orphanou, M., Kyprianidou-Leodidou, T., Krumeich, F., & Caseri, W. (2003). Composite
Nanotubes Formed by Self-Assembly of PbS Nanoparticles. Nanoletters 3(4), 569-572.
Leontidis, E. (2002). Hofmeister Anion Effects on Surfactant Self-Assembly and the Formation of Porous
Solids. Curr. Opin. Colloid Int. Sci., 7(1-2), 81-91.
ATHANASIOS NICOLAIDES Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1986
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., Ph.D., 1992
ACS, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Application of computational methods (ab initio, DFT) into Chemistry; Reactive
intermediates; Radicals, diradicals and diradicaloids; Carbocations, carbenes and
nitrenes; Pyramidalized olefins and their organometallic complexes
Computational Chemistry: Applications to Environmental Organic Chemistry
Formation of pyramidalized Alkenes: A Theoretical and Experimental approach
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Applications of Quantum-mechanical Calculations to Chemistry
Towards New Organic Photovoltaics: Calculations, Synthesis and Measurements
Cooperating Organizations from: Cyprus and Romania
Formation and Complexation of Noradamantene, a Pryamidalized Alkene
Mass and NMR Spectroscopy Measurements in Organic and Biological Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Nicolaides, A. (2009). 3.2 Small Ring and Cage Structures Involving Nonplanar C=C Bonds. In
A. Nicolaides (Ed.), Strained Hydrocarbons Beyond the van't Hoff and Le Bel Hypothesis
(pp. 978-3-527-31767-7, 112-122) Wiley-VCH Verlag.
Ioannou, S., Nicolaides, A. V., & Manos, M. J. (2010). Tricyclo[3.3.1.03,7]nonane-3,7-diyl
bis(methanesulfonate). Acta Cryst, E66, o409.
Petrou, P. S., & Nicolaides, A. V. (2009). Electron Affinities of a Homologous Series of Tertiary Alkyl
Radicals and Their C-H Bond Dissociation Energies (BDEs). Tetrahedron, 65, 1655−1659.
Ioannou, S., & Nicolaides, A. V. (2009). An improved synthesis of diiodonoradamantane. Tetrahedron
Lett., 50, 6938−6940.
Stefani, D., Pashalidis, I., & Nicolaides, A. V. (2008). A computational study of the conformations of the
boric acid (B(OH)3), its conjugate base ((HO)2BO¯) and borate anion (B(OH)4¯). THEOCHEM, 853, 33-38.
Chatgilialoglu, C., Ferreri, C., Hermetter, A., La cote, E., Mihaljevic, B., Nicolaides, A., & Siafaka-Kapadai, A.
(2008). Lipidomics and free radical modifications of lipids. Chimia, 62, 713-720.
Theophanous, F. A., Tasiopoulos, A. J., Nicolaides, A.*, Zhou, X., Johnson, W. T. G. & Borden, W. T. (2006).
Evidence for the Formation of the (Ph3P)2Pt Complex of 3,7-Dimethyl-tricyclo[3.3.0.03,7]oct-1(5)-ene,
the Most Highly Pyramidalized Alkene in a Homologous Series. Isolation and X-ray Structure of the
Product of the Ethanol Addition to the Complex. Org. Lett., 8, 3001-3004.
Nicolaides A.* (2003). Singlet Hydrocarbon Carbenes with High Barriers Toward Isomerization: A
Computational Investigation. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125, 9070–9073.
Nicolaides, A., Rauk, A., Glukhovtsev, M. N., & Radom, L. (1996). Heats of formation from G2, G2(MP2),
and G2(MP2,SVP) total energies. J. Phys. Chem., 100, 17460–17464.
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IOANNIS PASHALIDES Associate Professor
STUDIES
Technical University of Munich, Germany, Diploma in Chemistry, 1987
Τechnical University of Munich, Germany, Ph.D. in Environmental Radiochemistry, 1991
Fachverband fuer Strahlenschutz, Germany, Switzerland • Pancyprian Association of
Chemists, Cyprus • Chemists Registration Council, Cyprus (Secretary) • EUCHEMS Division
of Nuclear and Radiochemistry, Europe • International Nuclear Society (INCS),
International, Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Council, Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Aquatic and Radiochemistry Chemistry
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Nuclear Chemistry (Member), Hindawi
Redox Phenomena Controlling Systems (RECOSY)
Cooperating Organization: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe G.m.b.H., Germany
Funding: EUROATOM, European Commission
Alpha-Radiometry of Natural Samples
Interaction of Natural Organic Matter with Heavy Metal Ions
Time-Resolved Laser Luminescence Spectroscopy for Speciation Analysis and Optical
Sensing
Cooperating Organization: Potsdam University, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Pashalidis, I. (2009). Molecular Aspects of Boron Treatment Technologies. In M.P. Chung (Ed.), Handbook
on Borates: Chemistry, Production and Applications (pp. 367-381). U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Pashalidis, I. (2009). Radio-Environmental Impacts of Phosphogypsum. In R. Langdon, Elsworth, & W. O.
Paley (Eds.), Fertilizers: Properties, Applications and Effects (pp 241-250). New York: Nova Science
Publishers, Inc.
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Kiliari, T., & Pashalidis, I. (2010). Simplified alpha-spectroscopic analysis of uranium in natural waters after
its separation by cation-exchange. Radiation Measurements, 45, 966-968.
Konstantinou, M. & Pashalidis, I. (2010). Competitive sorption of Cu(II) and Eu(III) ions on Olive-Cake
Carbon in aqueous solutions - A potentiometric study. Adsorption, 16, 167–172.
Papanicolaou, F., Antoniou, S., & Pashalidis, I. (2010). Redox Chemistry of Sulphate and Uranium in a
Phosphogypsum Tailings Dump. J. Environmental Radioactivity, 101, 601–605.
Kiliari, T., Tsiaili, A., & Pashalidis, I. (2010). Lithological and Seasonal Variations in Radon Concentrations in
Cypriot Groundwaters. J. Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 284, 553–556.
Papanicolaou, F., Antoniou, S., & Pashalidis, I. (2009). Experimental and Theoretical Studies on
Physicochemical Parameters Affecting the Solubility of Phosphogypsum. J. Environ-mental
Radioactivity, 100, 854-857.
Konstantinou, M., Kolokassidou, K., & Pashalidis, I. (2009). Studies on the interaction of olive cake and its
hydrophylic extracts with polyvalent metal ions (Cu(II), Eu(III)) in aqueous solutions. J. Hazardous
Materials, 166, 1169–1173.
Kolokassidou, K., Szymczak, W., Wolf, M., Obermeier, C., Buckau, G., & Pashalidis, I. (2009). Hydrophilic
Olive Cake Extracts: Characterization by Physicochemical Properties and Cu(II) Complexation. J.
Hazardous Materials, 164, 442–447.
Konstantinou, M., Kolokassidou, K., & Pashalidis, I. (2009). Studies on the interaction of olive cake and its
hydrophylic extracts with polyvalent metal ions (Cu(II), Eu(III)) in aqueous solutions. J. Hazardous
Materials, 166, 1169–1173.
Pashalidis, I. (2008). Radio-environmental Impacts of Phosphogypsum Disposed on a Coastal Area in
Vasiliko, Cyprus, International Conference Protection and Restoration of the Environment VIΙI (pp. 1-3).
Kefalonia, Greece.
COSTAS S. PATRICKIOS Professor
STUDIES
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 1988
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Practice, 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., Ph.D., 1993
American Chemical Society, U.S.A. • Polymer Networks Group, International (Secretary) •
Materials Research Society, U.S.A. • POLYCHAR, International (Member of Scientific
Committee)
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Synthesis-Characterisation of Block Copolymers; Synthesis-Characterisation of Model
Networks; Synthesis-Characterisation of ABC Terpolymers; Group Transfer
Polymerisation; Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerisation, Gene
Transfer, Self-assembling Block Copolymer Membranes
Self-Assembled Polymer Membranes
Cooperating Organizations: Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany; Polymer Institute,
Germany
Funding: FP7, Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production
Technologies (MMP), European Commission
Multiblock Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Application
Cooperating Organizations: Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece;
University of Patras, Greece; Medochemie Ltd., Cyprus.
Synthesis, Characterization and Degradation of Polymer Networks Based on Degradable
Initiators
Cooperating Organization: University Carnegie Mellon, U.S.A.
Development of Hydrophilic Cationic Star Polymers for siRNA Transfer to Mammalian
Cells
Cooperating Organization: Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus
Mechanical Tissue Characterization and Stress and Strain Imaging of the Murine Heart
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Patrickios, C. S. (Ed.). (2010). Polymer Networks: Synthesis, Properties, Theory and Applications.
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
Pafiti, K. S., Loizou, E., Patrickios, C. S., & Porcar, L. (2010). End-linked Semifluorinated Amphiphilic
Conetworks: Synthesis by Sequential Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization
and Characterization. Macromolecules, 12(43), 5195-5204.
Rikkou, M. D., Kolokasi, M., Matyjaszewski, K., & Patrickios, C. S. (2010). End-linked Amphiphilic Polymer
Conetworks: Synthesis by Sequential Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Swelling
Characterization. Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 9(48), 1878-1886.
Hadjiantoniou, N. A., Krasia-Christoforou, T., Loizou, E., Porcar, L., & Patrickios, C. S. (2010). Alternating
Amphiphilic Multiblock Copolymers: Controlled Synthesis via RAFT Polymerization and Aqueous
Solution Characterization. Macromolecules, 6(43), 2713-2720.
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Kassi, E., & Patrickios, Costas S. (2010). Polymers from Bio-sourced Monomers: The Case of 2(Methacryloyloxy)ethyl Tiglate. Macromolecules, 3(43), 1411-1415.
Rikkou, M. D., Loizou, E., Porcar, L., Butler, P., & Patrickios, C. S. (2009). Degradable, Amphiphilic Endlinked Conetworks With Aqueous Degradation Rates Determined by Polymer Topology.
Macromolecules, 24(42), 9412-9421.
Themistou, E., & Patrickios, C. S. (2009). Degradable Polymer Networks and Star Polymers Based on
Mixtures of Two Cleavable Dimethacrylate Cross-Linkers: Synthesis, Characterization and Degradation.
Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 21(47), 5853-5870.
Kafouris, D., Gradzielski, M., & Patrickios, C. S. (2009). Semisegmented Amphiphilic Polymer Conetworks:
Synthesis and Characterization. Macromolecules, 8(42), 2972-2980.
Rikkou, M. D., & Patrickios, C. S. (2008). Well-Defined Networks with Precisely Located Cleavable Sites:
Structure Optimization and Core Functionality Determination. Macromolecules (Communication),
16(41), 5957-5959.
Georgiou, T. K., & Patrickios, C. S. (2008). Synthesis, Characterization and DNA Adsorption Studies of
Ampholytic Model Conetworks Based on Cross-linked Star Copolymers: Effect of Star Architecture.
Biomacromolecules, 2(9), 574-582.
Vamvakaki, M., & Patrickios, C. S. (2008). Synthesis and Characterization of the Swelling and Mechanical
Properties of Amphiphilic Ionizable Model Conetworks Containing n-Butyl Methacrylate Hydrophobic
Blocks. Soft Matter, 2(4), 268-276.
Patrickios, C. S., & Georgiou, T. K. (2003). Covalent Amphiphilic Polymer Networks. Current Opinion in
Colloid & Interface Science, 1(8), 76-85.
Patrickios, C. S., & Yamasaki, E. N. (1995). Polypeptide Amino Acid Composition and Isoelectric Point. 2.
Comparison Between Experiment and Theory. Anal Biochem, 1(231), 82-91.
Patrickios, C. S., Hertler, Walter, R., Abbott, Nicholas, L., & Hatton, T. A. (1994). Diblock, ABC Triblock, and
Random Methacrylic Polyampholytes: Synthesis by Group Transfer Polymerization and Solution
Behavior. Macromolecules, 4(27), 930-937.
EFTYCHIA PINAKOULAKI Lecturer
TEL.: 22892782, FAX: 22892801, E-mail: effi[email protected]
STUDIES
University of Crete, Greece, B.Sc. in Chemistry, 1998
University of Crete, Greece, Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2002
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Time-Resolved FTIR Spectroscopy; Gas Sensor Proteins; Protein Dynamics; Catalytic
Mechanisms of Enzymes
Biophysical Society, U.S.A.
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Activation Mechanism of the Signal Transducer Protein HemAT
A Time-Resolved Step-Scan FTIR Study of the Mechanism of Inhibition of Lipid
Peroxidation in Food by Antioxidants: Health implications
FTIR and Time-resolved Step-Scan FTIR Studies of the Signal Transducer Protein HemAT
Activation and reduction of Nitric oxide (NO) to laughing gas (N2O) by Nitric Oxide
Reduce and heme-copper cbb3 oxidase
Cooperating Organization: Cyprus University of Technology (Host organization), Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
Pinakoulaki, E., & Varotsis, C. (2008). Resonance Raman spectroscopy of nitric oxide reductase and cbb3
heme-copper oxidase. J. Phys. Chem. B, 112, 1851-1857.
Pinakoulaki, E., & Varotsis, C. (2008). Nitric oxide activation and reduction by Heme-copper
oxidoreductases and Nitric oxide reductase. J. Inorg. Biochem., 102, 1277–1287.
Roussakis, E., Voutsadaki, S., Pinakoulaki, E., Sideris, D., Tokatlidis, K., & Katerinopoulos, H. (2008).
ICPBCZin: A red emitting ratiometric fluorescent indicator with nanomolar affinity for Zn2+ ions. Cell
Calcium, 44, 270-275.
Pinakoulaki, E. (2009). Recognition and Discrimination of Gases by the Signal Transducer HemAT, 53rd
Biophysical Society Meeting, 96(3), 597a. Boston, U.S.A.: Biophys. J.
Pinakoulaki, E., Yoshimura, H., Yoshioka, S., Aono, S., & Varotsis, C. (2009). Recognition and Discrimination
of Gases by the O2-sensing Signal Transducer HemAT, Abstract of the 14th International Conference on
Biological Inorganic Chemistry. Nagoya, Japan: J. Biol. Inorg. Chem. 14 (Suppl 1):S12.
Varotsis, C., Ohta, T., Kitagawa, T., Soulimane, T., & Pinakoulaki, E. (2007). The structure of the hyponitrite
species in the heme Fe-CuB center of ba3 oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 46,
2210-2214.
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Pinakoulaki, E., Yoshimura, H., Daskalakis, V., Yoshioka, S., Aono, S., & Varotsis, C. (2006). Two ligand
binding sites in the O2-sensing signal transducer HemAT: Implications for ligand
recognition/discrimination and signaling, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 103, 14796-14801.
Pinakoulaki, E., Ohta,T., Soulimane,T., Kitagawa,T., & Varotsis, C. (2005). Detection of the His-Heme Fe2+ NO Species in the Reduction of NO to N2O by ba3-Oxidase from Thermus thermophilus. J. Am. Chem.
Soc., 127, 15161-15167.
ANASTASIOS TASIOPOULOS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
University of Ioannina, Greece, B.Sc. Chemistry, 1995
University of Ioannina, Greece, Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, 1999
Association of Greek Chemists, Greece • American Chemical Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Synthesis and Characterisation of Paramagnetic Clusters; Synthesis and Characterisation
of New Single - Molecule Magnets; Synthesis and Characterisation Models of
Metalloenzymes; Synthesis and Characterisation of New Coordination Polymers
Synthesis and Study of New Single Molecule Magnets
Cooperating Organization: NCSR «Demokritos», Greece
Synthesis and Study of New Magnetic Coordination Polymers Based on 3d Metal Ions
Cooperating Organization: NCSR «Demokritos», Greece
Molecular Nanomagnets based on 3d metal ions: Synthesis, Magnetostructural
Characterization and Organisation on Surfaces
Cooperating Organization: University of Florida, U.S.A.
Molecular Nanoscience: Synthesis and Study of Molecular Wheel Compounds
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Bridging the Molecular and Classical Approaches to Nanoscale Magnetic Materials:
Synthesis and Study of Giant Single Molecule Magnets
Hydrogen Storage in Metal – Organic Frameworks Based on Poly-Alcohols and PolyCarboxylic Acids: Synthesis, Characterization and Study
Cooperating Organization: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
New Metal Clusters and Multidimensional Coordination Polymers with Interesting
Magnetic Properties Consisting of Linked High Spin Metal Clusters
PUBLICATIONS
Moushi, E. E., Lampropoulos, C., Wernsdorfer, W., Nastopoulos, V., Christou, G., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2010).
Inducing Single-Molecule Magnetism in a Family of Loop-of-Loops Aggregates: Heterometallic Mn40Na4
Clusters and the Homometallic Mn44 Analogue. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 16146-16155.
Papatriantafyllopoulou, C., Stamatatos, T. C., Wernsdorfer, W., Teat, Simon, J., Tasiopoulos, A. J., Escuer, A.,
& Perlepes, S. P. (2010). Combining Azide, Carboxylate, and 2-Pyridyloximate Ligands in Transition-Metal
Chemistry: Ferromagnetic NiII5 Clusters with a Bowtie Skeleton. Inorg. Chem., 49, 10486-10496.
Efthymiou, C., G., Stamatatos, T. C., Papatriantafyllopoulou, C., Tasiopoulos, A., J., Wernsdorfer, W.,
Perlepes, S. P., & Christou, G. (2010). Nickel/Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets: {Ni3Ln} "Stars" with a
Ligand Derived from the Metal-Promoted Reduction of Di-2-pyridyl Ketone under Solvothermal
Conditions. Inorg. Chem., 49, 9737-9739.
Moushi, E., E., Masello, A., Wernsdorfer, W., Nastopoulos, V., Christou, G., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2010). A
Mn15 Single – Molecule Magnet Consisting of a Supertetrahedron Incorporated in a Loop. Dalton Trans.
39, 4978-4985.
Moushi, Eleni, E., Kizas, C., Nastopoulos, V., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2010). Synthesis and Characterization of a
Linear [Mn3(O2CMe)4(py)8]2+ Complex. Bioinorg. Chem. Appl., Article ID 932569.
Moushi, E., E., Stamatatos, T. C., Wernsdorfer, W., Nastopoulos, V., Christou, G., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2009).
A Mn17 Octahedron with a Giant Ground State Spin: Occurrence in Discrete Form and as
Multidimensional Coordination Polymers. Inorg. Chem., 48, 5049-5051.
Stamatatos, T. C., Perlepes, S. P., Raptopoulou C. P., Terzis, A., Patrickios C. S., Tasiopoulos, A. J., & Boudalis,
A. K. (2009). Alcoholysis/hydrolysis of 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole as a means of preparing unprecedented,
imidazole-containing one-dimensional coordination polymers of copper(II). Dalton Trans., 3354-3362.
Moushi, E. E., Stamatatos, T. C., Nastopoulos, V., Christou, G., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2009). A new family of
octanuclear Mn complexes with a rod-like topology. Polyhedron, 28, 3203-3208.
Zartilas, S., Moushi, Eleni, E., Nastopoulos, V., Boudalis, A. K., & Tasiopoulos, A. J. (2008). Two new
coordination polymers containing the triangular [Mn3O(O2CR)6]0/+ units. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 361,
4100-4106.
Tasiopoulos, A. J., & Perlepes, S. P. (2008). Diol-type ligands as central ‘players’ in the chemistry of highspin molecules and single-molecule magnets. Dalton Trans., 5537-5555.
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CHARIS R. THEOCHARIS Professor
STUDIES
Brunel University, U.K., Bachelor of Technology in Applied Chemistry, 1979
University of Cambridge, U.K., Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, 1982
Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K., cchem FRSC (Fellow) • Society of Chemical Industry, U.K.
• International Adsorption Society, U.S.A. • American Chemical Society, U.S.A. •
Pancyprian Union of Chemists, Cyprus
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, U.K., Wiley InterSciece • Chemistry
Education Research and Practice Editorial Board, U.K., RSC
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Surface and Bulk Properties of Ceria and Doped Ceria; Surface Texture and Properties of
the Oxides and Hydroxides of Calcium and Magnesium; Adsorption Behaviour of MFIType Zeolites; Study of MOF’s; Chemometric Investigation of Various Cypriot Products
PUBLICATIONS
Attipa, C., Kokkinofta, R., & Theocharis, C. R. (2009). Can Chemometrics Provide Useful Data about Porous
Solids Characterization. Characterization of Porous Solids VIII. Royal Society of Chemistry, 64-70.
Attipa, C., & Theocharis, C. R. (2009). Correlation of Surface Texture and Crystal Morphology for Ternary
Mixed Metal Oxides. Characterization of Porous Solids VIII. Royal Society of Chemistry, 334-341.
Panayi, E., & Theocharis, C. R. (2009). Low Pressure Hysteresis in the Nitrogen Adsorption Isotherm of ZSM5: Effect of Acid Treatment. Characterization of Porous Solids VIII. Royal Society of Chemistry, 182-189.
Attipa, C., & Theocharis, C. R. (2009). Investigation of the Synthesis and Properties of Ternary V−Cu−Ce
Oxides of Composition VxCuxCe1−2xO2. Adsorption Science and Technology, 27, 811-820.
Tillirou, A. A., & Theocharis, C. R. (2008). Synthesis and characterization of mesoporous cerium oxide
using organic base and template agent. Adsorption Science and Technology, 26, 687-692.
Theocharis, C. R., Attipa, C., Hapeshi, E., Tillirou, A., & Kokkinofta, R. (2008). Study Of The Crystallization Of
Nanoporous Mixed Metal Oxide Phases. Adsorption Science and Technology, 26, 643-650.
Hapeshi, E., & Theocharis, C. R. (2008). Preparation and characterization of tetravalent cerium
incorporated manganese oxide OMS-2. Effect of cerium template on Octahedral Molecular Sieves of
Manganese Oxide Characterization of Manganese oxide molecular sieves with cerium as dopant.
Adsorption Science and Technology, 26, 789-801.
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The Department of Computer Science attaches major importance to research, since it is through
research that it can accomplish two of its foremost missions: to contribute to the development
of the discipline of Computer Science; to strengthen the contribution of Computer Science to
the development of local industry and the Cypriot society at large. Computer Science not only
investigates the basic theoretical issues related to the discipline, but also seeks to identify
practical methods that will provide the basis for effective solutions to problems of a more
general nature. It is hoped that through the development of such methods, Computer Science
research will significantly improve our quality of life.
In 2002, the Department moved to the new campus of the University where it has its own
spacious, state-of-the-art facilities. The Department’s move to the new facilities coincided with
a rapid increase in its research projects and units, funded mainly by the European Union (Fifth,
Sixth and Seventh Research Framework Programmes) and the Cyprus Research Promotion
Foundation. This fortunate coincidence has helped to consolidate and further develop the
research activities of the Department. In the context of its strategic planning, the Department
has established the following 13 Research Laboratories, all of which are currently operating:
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Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Lab
Component-Based Systems Lab
Computational Intelligence (Former Multimedia MRDL)
Computer Architecture Laboratory
Computer Architecture Systems & Performance Evaluation Research
Formal Methods and Computer Graphics Lab
Laboratory for Foundations of Computing Systems and Theoretical Computer Science
Laboratory for Internet Computing
Medical Informatics Laboratory
Medroplan Lab
Mobile Research Lab
Networks Research and Teaching Laboratory
Pervasive Computing Lab
Self-Organising Networks Lab
Software Engineering & Intelligent Information Systems Research Laboratory
Software Engineering and Internet Technology
Virtual Reality Systems
Wireline, Wireless & Mobile Networks Lab
These laboratories currently employ about 70 full-time researchers. During the years 2008-2010,
faculty members of the Department utilised these laboratories for 90 research programmes,
with a total budget of €11,178,463.
Some general areas of the Department’s research activities include: Algorithms and Complexity,
Artificial Computational Intelligence, Computer Architecture, Computer Graphics, Computer
Networks, Databases, Intelligent Systems, Internet Computing, Medical Information Systems
and Telemedicine, Mobile Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Software Engineering
and System Specification and Verification. By strengthening its collaborations with other
universities and research organizations abroad, and by organizing international conferences in
Cyprus, the Department continues to broaden the areas of its research activities.
Marios Dikaiakos
Chairperson
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ACADEMIC STAFF
Chris Christodoulou
Constantinos S. Pattichis
Associate Professor
Professor
Yiorgos L. Chrysanthou
Anna Philippou
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Marios D. Dikaiakos
Andreas Pitsillides
Associate Professor
Professor
Yannis Dimopoulos
George Samaras
Associate Professor
Professor
Paraskevas Evripidou
Yiannakis Sazeides
Professor
Assistant Professor
Chryssis Georgiou
Christos N. Schizas
Assistant Professor
Professor
Antonis C. Kakas
Pedro Trancoso
Professor
Assistant Professor
Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou
Vasos Vassiliou
Professor
Assistant Professor
Marios Mavronicolas
Demetris Zeinalipour
Professor
Lecturer
George Pallis
Lecturer
George A. Papadopoulos
Professor
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FAC U LT Y O F PU R E A N D A P P L I ED S C I E N C E S
D e p a r t m ent o f Co m p u ter S c ie nce
CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU Associate Professor
STUDIES
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, U.K., B.Eng in Electronic
Engineering, 1991
King’s College London, University of London, U.K., Ph.D. in Neural
Networks/Computational Neuroscience, 1997
Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K., B.A. in German, 2008
Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ΕΤΕΚ), Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics; Neural Coding; Neural Networks
and their Applications; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics
Can Evolutionary Spiking and Non-spiking Neural Networks yield more robust solutions
for Multiagent Learning problems?
Can Self-Control through Precommitment Behaviour be Explained by Evolutionary Game
Theory within a Computational Connectionist Model?
The Role of Cannabinoids in Learning and Memory: A Theoretical Neuroscience
Approach
Cooperating Organization: University of Nottingham, U.K.
Developing of Novel and Efficient Second-Order Learning and Optimisation Techniques
for Protein Structure Prediction
Understanding Self Control through Computational Modelling of Internal Conflict
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Christodoulou, C., Lansky, P., & Rospars, J. (Eds.). (2010). Abstract book: 9th International Workshop of
Neural Coding 2010 (NC2010). Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Neural Coding 2010,
Limassol, Cyprus. Available from www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/nc2010/NC2010_Book_of_Abstracts_with_cover.pdf
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D e p a r t m e nt o f Co m p u ter S cience
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Agathocleous, M., Christodoulou, G., Promponas, V., Christodoulou, C., Vassiliades, V., & Antoniou, A.
(2010). Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Nets: can weight
updating for each residue enhance performance? AIAI 2010. In H. Papadopoulos, A. S. Andreou, & M.
Bramer (Eds.), IFIP International Federation for Information Processing AICT, 339 (pp. 128-137). Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
Cleanthous, A., & Christodoulou, C. (2009). On the Psychology and Modelling of Self-Control. In J. Mayor,
N. Ruh, K. Blunkett (Eds.), Connectionist Models of Behaviour and Cognition II, Progress in Neural
Processing 18 (pp. 229-240). Singapore: World Scientific.
Draganova, C, Lanitis, A., & Christodoulou, C. (2009). Isolating Stock Prices Variation with Neural
Networks. In D. Palmer-Brown, C. Draganova, E. Pimenidis, & H. Mouratidis (Eds.), Engineering
Applications of Neural Networks, Communications in Computer and Information Science 43
(pp. 401-408). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Vassiliades, V., Cleanthous, A., & Christodoulou, C. (2009). Multiagent Reinforcement Learning with
Spiking and Non-spiking Agents in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. In C. Alippi, M. Polycarpou, &
G. Ellinas (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5768
(pp. 737-746). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Vassiliades, V., Cleanthous, A., & Christodoulou, C. (2010). Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Spiking
and Nonspiking Agents in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 22(4).
doi: 10.1109/TNN.2011.2111384.
Christodoulou, C., & Cleanthous, A. (2010). Does high firing irregularity enhance learning? Neural
Computation, 23(3). doi: 10.1162/NECO_a_00090.
Christodoulou, C., Banfield, G., & Cleanthous, A. (2010). Self-control with spiking and non-spiking neural
networks playing games. Journal of Physiology. 104, 108-117.
Jayne, C., Lanitis, A., & Christodoulou, C., (2010). Neural network methods for one-to-many multi-valued
problems. Neural Computing and Applications. doi: 10.1007/s00521-010-0483-4.
Christodoulou, C., & Cleanthous, A. (2010). Spiking neural networks with different reinforcement
learning schemes in a multiagent setting. Chinese Journal of Physiology, 53(6), 447-453.
Krambia Kapardis, M., Christodoulou, C., & Agathocleous, M., (2010). Neural Networks: The panacea in
fraud detection? Managerial Auditing Journal, 25(7), 659-678.
Cleanthous, A., & Christodoulou, C. (2009). Is self-control a learned strategy employed by a reward
maximizing brain? BMC Neuroscience, 10, Suppl. 1, 14.
Vassiliades, V., & Christodoulou, C. (2010). Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in the Iterated Prisoner's
Dilemma: Fast Cooperation through Evolved Payoffs, Proc. of the International Joint Conference on
Neural Networks (IJCNN'10), part of the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI'10) (pp.
2828-2835). Barcelona, Spain. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596937.
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YIORGOS L. CHRYSANTHOU Associate Professor
STUDIES
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, U.K., B.Sc. in Computer Science
and Statistics, 1990
Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, U.K., Ph.D. in Computer
Graphics, 1996
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer Graphics; Virtual Reality; Computer Simulation
Eurographics, Europe • ACM Siggraph, U.S.A. • ICOMOS, International
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Computers and Graphics Journal (Associate Editor), Europe, Elsevier
Action IC1005: HDRi: The Digital Capture, Storage, Transmission and Display of Realworld Lighting
Cooperating organizations: Warwick University, U.K.; another 15 E.U. countries
Funding: IST FP7, European Commission
Illumination Neutralisation with application in tracking
Cooperating organizations: SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Technological
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Mobile AR Assisted Maintenance
Cooperating organizations: ARMES, Cyprus; ELISE Irrigations, Cyprus
Experimental photogrammetric system for diagnosis of scoliosis
Cooperating organizations: Geoimaging, Cyprus; Aristotle University of Thessalloniki,
Greece
Cyprus Food Virtual Museum
Cooperating organizations: Charokopeio University, Greece; PrimeTel, Cyprus; Gasteraia,
Greece
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Synthesis of Dynamic Characters with Motion Capture Data for Human Figure Animation:
Educating the Cyprus police force
Cooperating organizations: Research Center Financial Reporting Council (FRC), U.K.;
Cyprus Academic Research Institute (CARI),Cyprus; Cyprus Police Emergency Response
Unit (CPERU), Cyprus; University College London (UCL), U.K.
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Brain White Matter Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
Subjects
Cooperating organization: Centre of Applied Research, Cyprus
Automatic photogrammetry methods for diagnosis and follow-up of scoliosis (SCOLIOSIS)
Cooperating organizations: Geoimaging, Cyprus; Aristotle University of Thessalloniki, Greece
PATENTS
Artusi, A., Roch, B., Chalmers, A., & Chrysanthou, Y. Selective Tone Mapper, U.K. Patent
Office, GB2449272, (19 November 2008)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Loucas S. L., Khalid Al-Begain, Chrysanthou, Y., & Oplatková, Z. (Eds.). (2008). ECMS 2008 Proceedings of
the 22nd EUROPEAN Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Nicosia, Cyprus: ACMS.
Boulic, R., Chrysanthou, Y., & Komura, T. (2010). Motion in Games. Lecture Notes in Computer Science:
Springer.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Lerner, A., Chrysanthou, Y., Shamir, A., & Cohen-Or, D. (2009). Data driven evaluation of crowds. Motion in
Games (pp. 75-83). New York: Inc:Springer-Verlag.
Kyriakou, M. & Chrysanthou, Y. (2008). Texture Synthesis Based Simulation of Secondary Agents. Motion
in Games (pp.1-10). New York: Inc:Springer-Verlag.
Lerner, A., Chrysanthou, Y., Shamir, A., & Cohen-Or., D. (2010). Context-Dependent Crowd Evaluation.
Computer Graphics Forum Journal, 29(7), 2197-2206.
Michael, D., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2010). Fullsphere Irradiance Factorization for Real-time All-frequency
Illumination for Dynamic Scenes. Computer Graphics Forum Journal, 29(8), 2516–2529.
Gaitatzes, A., Chrysanthou, Y., & Papaioannou, G. (2008). Presampled Visibility for Ambient Occlusion.
Journal of WSCG, 16.
Michael, D., Chrysanthou, Y., Zacharias, P., & Pelekanos, N. (2010). Comparative Study of Interactive
Systems in a Museum, Euromed 2010. Limassol (CD-ROM).
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Vigueras, G., Lozano, M., Juan M. Orduna, & Chrysanthou, Y. (2010). A Distributed Visual Client for LargeScale Crowd Simulations, 10th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods
in Science and Engineering, CMMSE 2010. Almeria, Andalucia, Spain (CD-ROM).
Michael, D., Zacharias, P., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2010). A virtual tour of theWalls of Nicosia: An assessment of
children’s experience and learning performance, 11th VAST International Symposium on Virtual Reality,
Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. Eurographics, Paris (CD-ROM).
Loizides, A., & Himona, S. L., & Chrysanthou, Y. (2008). Visualisation Tool for Representing Synthetic Facial
Emotional Expressions, Visualisation, International Conference (pp. 35-140). U.K.
Loizidou Himona, S., Chrysanthou, Y., & Loizides, A. (2008). Human Figure Animation: A Historical
Perspective. ECMS 2008. Nicosia (CD-ROM).
MARIOS D. DIKAIAKOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Diploma in Electrical Engineering
(summa cum laude), 1988
Princeton University, N.J., U.S.A., M.A. in Computer Science, 1991
Princeton University, N.J., U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1994
Association for Computing Machinery, U.S.A. (Senior Member) • Computer Society, IEEE,
U.S.A. • Technical Chamber of Greece (Chartered Engineer), Greece
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Network-Centric Computing; Grid Computing; Web Technologies; Vehicular Computing;
Software Systems and Tools
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), U.S.A., American Scientific
Publishers (ASP) • Nausivios Chora Journal (International Advisory Committee Member),
Greece, Hellenic Naval Academy
EGI-iNSPIRE
Cooperating Organizations: EGI and many other EU institutions
Funding: Research Infrastructures, FP7, European Commission
v-Sense: A Vehicular Sensor Network Infrastructure
Cooperating Organizations: University of Thessaly, Greece; University of Nicosia, Cyprus
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eMammoth: Compute and Storage Grid and Cloud Infrastructure
Funding: RPF, Cyprus (infrastructure)
Action IC0804. Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems
Cooperating Organizations: IRIT, France; U. Passau, Germany; ENS Lyon, France; U. Vienna,
Austria; AUTH, Greece, etc.
Funding: COST Programme, European Science Foundation
SEARCHiN – Marie Curie ToK
Cooperating Organizations: University of Manchester, U.K.; University of Athens, Greece
Funding: FP6, Marie Curie Programme, European Commission
g-Eclipse
Cooperating Organizations: FZK, Germany; PSNC, U.S.A; University of Reading, U.K.
Funding: FP6, Information Societies and Technologies, European Commission
EGEE-II
Cooperating Organizations: CERN and many other EU institutions
CoreGrid: Network of Excellence on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and
Applications for large scale distributed, Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies
Cooperating Organizations: INRIA and other EU institutions
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Andrzejak, A., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Improving the Dependability of Grids via
Short-Term Failure Predictions. In F. Desprez, V. Getov, T. Priol, & R. Yahyapour (Eds.), Grids, P2P and
Services Computing (pp. 21-32). New York: Springer.
Loulloudes, N., Pallis, G., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). Information Dissemination in Mobile Content
Distribution Networks. In R. Buyya, M. Pathan, & A. Vakali (Eds.), Content Delivery Networks: Principles
and Paradigms (pp. 343-366). New York: Springer.
Luna, J., Dikaiakos, M. D., Gjermundrod, H., Flouris, M, Mazarakis, M., & Bilas, A. (2008). Using the GLITE
Middleware to Implement a Secure Intensive Care Grid System. In N. Meyer, D. Talia, R. Yahyapour (Eds.),
Grid and Services Evolution (pp. 87-101). New York: Springer.
Luna, J., Flouris, M., Marazakis, M., Bilas, A., Dikaiakos, M. D., Gjermundrod, H. K., & Kyprianou, T. (2008). A
Data-centric Security Analysis of ICGrid. In S. Gorlatch, P. Fragopoulou, T. Priol (Eds.), Grid Computing:
Achievements and Prospects (pp. 197-208). New York: Springer.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Neocleous, K., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). FailRank: Towards a Unified
Grid Failure Monitoring and Ranking System. In Marco D., P. Fragopoulou, & V. Getov (Eds.), Making Grids
Work (MGW) (pp. 247-260). New York: Springer.
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Stylianides, N., Dikaiakos, M. D., Gjermundrød, K. H., Panayi, G., & Kyprianou, T. (2010). Intensive Care
Window: Real time monitoring and analysis in the Intensive Care environment. IEEE Transactions on
Information Technology in BioMedicine, 15(1), 26-32.
Luna, J., Dikaiakos, M. D., Mazarakis, M., & Kyprianou, T. (2010). Data-centric Privacy Protocol for Intensive
Care Grids. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, 14(6), 1327-1337.
Pallis, G., Katsifodimos, A., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Searching for Software on the EGEE Infrastructure.
Journal of Grid Computing, 8(2), 281-304.
Jarrar, M., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Querying the Data Web -The MashQL approach. IEEE Internet
Computing, 14(3), 58-67.
Xing, W., Corcho, O., Coble, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). ActOn-based Semantic Information Service for
Grids. Future Generation Computer Systems, 26(3), 324-336.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Papadakis, H., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). Metadata Ranking and
Pruning for Failure Detection in Grids. Parallel Processing Letters - Special Issue on Grid Architectural
Issues: Scalability, Dependability, Adaptability, 18(3), 371-390.
Gounaris, T., Yfoulis, C., Sakellariou, R., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). A Control Theoretical Approach To Selfoptimizing Block Transfer in Web Service Grids. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive
Systems, 3(2), 1-30.
Mazzucco, M., Dyachuk, D., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Profit-Aware Server Allocation for Green Internet
Services, Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,
Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (pp. 277-284). Florida, U.S.A.:
IEEE.
Pallis, G., Katsaros, D., Dikaiakos, D. M., Loulloudes, N., & Tassiulas, L. (2009). Analyzing the Structure and
Evolution of Vehicular Networks, Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International
Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
(MASCOTS 2009) (pp. 502-511). London, U.K.: IEEE Computer Society.
Gjermundrod, K. H., Dikaiakos, M. D., Stumpert, M., Wolniewicz, P., & Kornmayer, H. (2008). g-Eclipse - An
Integrated Framework to Access and Maintain Grid Resources, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Grid Computing (pp. 57-64). Tsukuba, Japan.
Stassopoulou, A., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2009). Web Robot Detection: A Probabilistic Reasoning Approach.
Computer Networks, 53(3), 265-278.
Pallis, G., Katsifodimos, A., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2009). Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources
installed in Large-scale Grid Infrastructures, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International
Conference on Web Intelligence (pp. 482-489). Milano, Italy.
Dikaiakos, M. D., Florides, A., Nadeem, T., & Iftode, I. (2007). Location-aware Services over Vehicular AdHoc Networks using Car-to-Car Communication. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,
25(8), 1590-1602.
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YANNIS DIMOPOULOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
Athens University of Economics, Greece, B.Sc. in Computer Science, 1987
Athens University of Economics, Greece, Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Artificial Intelligence Planning; Multi-agent
Systems; Non-monotonic Reasoning; Constraint Satisfaction
PUBLICATIONS
Gerevini, A., Haslum, P., Long, D., Saetti, A., & Dimopoulos, Y. (2009). Deterministic planning in the 5th
International Planning Competition: PDDL3 and experimental evaluation of the planners. Artificial
Intelligence, 173(5-6), 619-668.
Dimopoulos, Y., Moraitis, P., & Amgoud, L. (2008). Theoretical and Computational Properties of
Preference-based Argumentation, European Conf. On Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’08) (pp. 463-467).
Patras.
Amgoud, L., Dimopoulos, Y., & Moraitis, P. (2008). Making decisions through preference-based
argumentation, Inter. Conf. On Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR’08) (pp. 113-123). Sydney.
Dimopoulos, Y., Moraitis, P., & Amgoud, L. (2008). Characterizing the Outcomes of Argumentation-based
Integrative Negotiation, IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008)
(pp. 456-460). Sydney.
Dimopoulos, Y., Michael, L., & Athienitou, F. (2009). Ceteris Paribus Preference Elicitation with Predictive
Guarantees, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’09) (pp. 890-895).
California.
Dimopoulos, Y., & Moraitis, P. (2009). L. Amgoud, Extending Argumentation to Make Good Decisions,
First International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT’09) (pp. 225-236). Venice.
Spanoudakis, N., Moraitis, P., & Dimopoulos, Y. (2009). Engineering an Agent-based Approach to
Ambient Assisted Living, AmI'09 Workshop on Interaction Techniques and Metaphors in Assistive Smart
Environments (IntTech'09). Salzburg (CD-ROM).
Hadidi, N., Dimopoulos, Y., & Moraitis, P. (2010). Argumentative Alternate Offers, 8th International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems (AAMAS'2010) (pp. 441-448). Toronto.
Sideris, A., & Dimopoulos, Y. (2010). Constraint Propagation in Propositional Planning, 20th International
Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2010) (pp. 153-160). Toronto.
Dimopoulos, Y., Hashmi, M. A., & Moraitis, P. (2010). Extending SATPLAN to Multiple Agents, AI-2010 13th
SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Cambridge (CD-ROM).
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PARASKEVAS EVRIPIDOU Professor
STUDIES
Higher Technical Institute, HIT diploma in Electrical Engineering, 1981
University of Southern California, U.S.A., B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1985
University of Southern California, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 1986
University of Southern California, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, 1990
IEEE, U.S.A. • ACM, U.S.A. • IFIP Working Group 103, U.K.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
International Journal of Parallel Programming (Associate Editor), The Netherlands,
Springer
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Parallel/Distributed Processing and Computer Architecture with Specialization on DataFlow/Data-Driven Systems; Mobile and Pervasive Computing
TERAFLUX: Exploiting dataflow parallelism in Teradevice Computing (249013)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Siena, Spain; Barcelona Supercomputing
Center, Spain; CAPS enterprise, France and China; Hewlett Packard Española, S.L., Spain;
INRIA, U.K.; Microsoft Israel Research & Development Cente, Israel; THALES SA, U.S.A.;
Universitaet Augsburg, Germany; University of Manchester, U.K.
Funding: FP7-ICT-2009, European Commission
StartEnt Fostering Business-University Partnerships for Entrepreneurship Education in
Europe
Cooperating Organizations: Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, Spain; Fundación
Universitaria de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Fundación Empresa Universidad de La
Laguna, Spain; Nottingham Trent University, U.K.; Centro de empresas e innovaçao da
Madeira, Madeira; Politecnico di Torino, Torino; Bulgarian-Romanian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Blugaria; Ruse University, Bulgaria
Funding: Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European Commission
Sei.li.nG: Seize Life Through Gaming
Cooperating Organizations: F&K Consultants, U.S.A.; RESOURCE S.r.l., Australia; Ballymun
Job Centre (BJC), Ireland; Kadis, Russia; InTraCoM GmbH, Germany; Web Relation, Cyprus
Funding: European Commission
Interoperable Content for Performance in a Competency-driven Society (ICOPER)
Cooperating Organizations: Schaftsuniversität Wien, Germany; Open University, U.K.;
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University of Leicester, U.K.; Open University of the Netherlands, The Netherlands;
University of Jyväskylä, Finalnd; IMC AG, Germany; Tallinn University, Estonia; Institut
National des Télécommunications, Jozef Stefan Institute, Spain ; NCSR Demokritos,
Greece; University of Vienna, Vienna; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; AGH
University of Science and Technology, Poland; Kaunas University of Technology,
Lithuania; Knowledge Markets Consulting GesmbH, Germany; Oslo University College,
Norway; Synergetics nv, Belgium; GiuntiLabs, Belgium; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Germany; Umeå University, Oslo; Humance, Germany
Sensors for Terrestrial and Airborne Radiotransmitter Rescue Search (STARS)
Cooperating Organizations: Thales Communications, U.S.A.; University of Louvain,
Belgium; OÄMTC, Germany; Joanneum Research, Germany; TELETEL, Greece; University
of Oulu, Finland; SFR, France; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Officiers Sapeurs-Pompiers,
France; Vodafone, Greece; Mont-Blanc Helicoptères, France; Cyprus Fire Service
MedIsolae-3D: Mediterranean Islands
Cooperating Organizations: 3D Aerial Navigation, Italy; Epsilon International SA (EPSGR),
Greece; Planungsbuero (PBS), Denmark; AllWeb Solutions SA (ALLWEB), Greece; Epsilon
Italia srl (EPSIT), Italy; Fundacion Illes Balears (IBIT), Mallorca; Epsilon Consulting Ltd
(EPSCY), Cyprus; Prefecture of Kyklades (PREKY), Greece; Prefecture of Chios (PRECH),
Greece; Prefecture of Kerkyra (PREKE), Greece; Mediterranean Agronomic Institute
(MAICH), Greece; Hellenic Small Islands Network (HSIN), Greece; Association des Illes du
Ponant (AIPO), France; Paragon Limited (PARA), Malta
OpenIT: Promoting Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Small & Medium
Enterprises (SMEs) and Public Bodies in ARCHIMED Zone through Open Source & Free
Software
Cooperating Organizations: Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Greece;
Region of Central Acedonia, Greece; University of Cacedonia, Greece; Calabria Chaber of
C & I Y, Italy
Broadband Access Satellite Enabled Education (BASE2)
Cooperating Organizations: NCSR “Demokritos”, Division of Applied Technologies,
Greece; Research and Education Society in Information Technologies – AIT, Cyprus;
Brunel University, U.K., Department of Information Systems and Computing, Australia;
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V, Germany;
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM, Spain; Department of Telematic Engineering,
Greece; General Confederation of Greek Agrarian Associations (GESASE), Greece;
SuperFast Ferries, Greece; Hellenic Aerospace Industry S.A., Greece
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Workflow & RFID enabled system for automated & paperless Warehouse operations (WResponse)
Cooperating Organizations: Pouliadis Associates Corporation, Greece; David Steps Ltd,
Cyprus; EGA System S.L., Spain; SchlumbergerSema, France; WARDI S.A. – Logistics,
Greece; University of Surrey, U.K.; Meshed Systems GmbH, Germany
Finalist: FINANCIAL LITERACY STIMULATION
Cooperating Organizations: University of Piraeus, Greece; KEPKA, Russia; University of
Athens, Greece; Allweb, Sweden; BezirKsamt, Germany; HSIF, Hong Kong; FCB, Spain;
University of Nice, France
PUBLICATIONS
Tata, K., Kyriacou, C., Evripidou, P., Trancoso, P., & Wong, S. (2008). Rapid Prototyping of the Data-Driven
Chip-Multiprocessor (D2-CMP) using FPGAs. Parallel Processing Letters, 18(2), 291-306.
Paraskevas, E. (2010). The Data-Flow model of Computation in the Multi-core era, International
Advanced Research Workshop on High Performance Computing, Grids and Clouds. U.K. Available from
http://www.hpcc.unical.it/hpc2010/
Arandi, S., & Paraskevas, E. (2010). DDM-VMc:The Data Driven Multithreading Virtual Machine for the Cell
Processors, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded
Architecture and Compilers. Heraclion, Available from ACM Digital Library
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1944862&picked=prox
Arandi, S., & Paraskevas, E. (2010). Programming multi-core architectures using Data-Flow techniques,
Proceedings of t he 2010 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures,
Modeling and Simulation. Samos, Greece Available in IEE Digital Library
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentlIssue.jsp?punumber=5628951
Stavrou, S., Nikolaides, M., Pavlou, D., Arandi, S., Trancoso, P., & Paraskeva, E. (2008). TFlux: A Portable
Platform for Data-Driven Multithreading on Commodity Multicore Systems, Proceedings of the 2008
International Conference on Parallel Processing. (pp. 25-34). Portland, U.S.A.
Tziakouris, M., & Paraskevas, E. (2008). HTTPStream Platform Low latency data for the Web, OTM 2008
Workshops, OTM Confederated International Workshops (pp. 873-882). Monterey, Mexico.
Neophytou, M., & Evripidou, P. (2001). Net-dbx: A Web Based Debugger of MPI Programs over Low
Bandwidth Lines. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 12(9), 986-995.
Cann, D., & Evripidou, P. (1995). Array Optimisations for High Performance Functional Languages. IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 6(3), 229-239.
Evripidou, P., & Gaudiot, J-L. (1993). Block Scheduling of Iterative Algorithms and Graph Priority in a
Simulated Data-flow Multiprocessor. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 4(4), 398-413.
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CHRYSSIS GEORGIOU Assistant Professor
STUDIES
University of Cyprus, Cyprus, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1998
University of Connecticut, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2002
University of Connecticut, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2003
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), U.S.A. (Professional Member) • Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), International (Professional Member) • European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), Europe (Member)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Distributed and Parallel Computing; Fault-Tolerance and Dependability; Algorithms and
Complexity
Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS)
Cooperating Organizations: 22 partners
European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications
for Large Scale Distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies (COREGRID)
Cooprating Organizations: 41 partners
Cloud Computing for Highly Scalable, Dependable and Pervasive Services
Cooperating Organizations: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain; Universidad Rey
Juan Carlos, Spain; University of Cyprus, Cyprus (CLOUDS)
Funding: Comunidad de Madrid, Coserjeria de Education
Sistemas Distribuidos Autonσmicos, Confiables y de Altas Prestaciones
Cooperating Organizations: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain; University of Cyprus,
Cyprus (AUTONOMIC)
Funding: Comunidad de Madrid, Coserjeria de Education
Reliable Master-Worker Internet-based Computing (Project Coordinator)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
Spain; University of Connecticut, U.S.A. (RELIABLE)
Seeking Fastness in Multiple-Writer Multiple-Reader Atomic Register Implementations
(Project Coordinator) (ATOMIC)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Connecticut,
U.S.A.
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E-learning of Higher Mathematics with the use of Algebraic Computing (PATRAS)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Patras, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Georgiou, C., & Shvartsman, A. A. (2008). Do-All Computing in Distributed Systems: Cooperation in the
Presence of Adversity. New York: Springer.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Neocleous, K., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). FailRank: Towards a Unified
Grid Failure Monitoring and Ranking System. Making Grids Work (pp. 247-259). New York: Springer.
Georgiou, C., Musial, P., & Shvartsman, A. A. (2009). Developing a Consistent Domain-Oriented
Distributed Object Service. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. IEEE Computer
Society, 20(11), 1567-1585.
Georgiou, C., Lynch, N., Mavrommatis, P., & Tauber, J. A. (2009). Automated Implementation of Complex
Distributed Algorithms Specified in the IOA Language. International Journal on Software Tools for
Technology Transfer, 11(2), 153-171.
Georgiou, C., Pavlides, T., & Philippou, A. (2009). Selfish Routing in the Presence of Network Uncertainty.
Parallel Processing Letters, 19(1), 141-157.
Georgiou, C., Nicolaou, N. C., & Shvartsman, A. A. (2009). Fault-Tolerant SemiFast Implementations of
Atomic Read/Write Registers. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 69(1), 62-79.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Papadakis, H., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. (2008). Metadata Ranking and Pruning
for Failure Detection in Grids. Parallel Processing Letters, 18(3), 371–390.
Georgiou, C., Gilbert, S., & Kowalski, D. R. (2010). Meeting the Deadline: On the Complexity of FaultTolerant Continuous Gossip, Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed
Computing (PODC 2010) (pp. 247-256). Zurich, Switzerland.
Anta, A. F., Georgiou, C., & Mosteiro, M. (2010). Algorithmic Mechanisms for Internet-based MasterWorker Computing with Untrusted and Selfish Workers, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010). Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Englert, B., Georgiou, C., Musial, P., Nicolaou, N., & Shvartsman, A. A. (2009). On the Efficiency of Atomic
Multi-Reader, Multi-Writer Distributed Memory, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2009) (pp. 240-254). Nimes, France.
Georgiou, C., Nicolaou, N., & Shvartsman, A. A. (2008). On the Robustness of (Semi)Fast Quorum-Based
Implementations of Atomic Shared Memory, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on
Distributed Computing (DISC 2008) (pp. 289-304). Arcachon, France.
Georgiou, C., Gilbert, S., Guerraoui, R., & Kowalski, D. R. (2008). On the Complexity of Asynchronous
Gossip, Proceedings of the 27th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2008)
(pp. 135-144). Toronto, Canada.
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ANTONIS C. KAKAS Professor
STUDIES
Imperial College, U.K., B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1980
Imperial College, U.K., M.Sc. in Computer Science, 1987
Imperial College, U.K., Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, 1984
European Association of Artificial Intelligence, Europe • American Association of Artificial
Intelligence, U.S.A. • Association of Logic Programming, U.K.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Argumentation; Abductive and Inductive Reasoning; Computational Bioscience;
Reasoning about Action and Change; Cognitive Agents
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Applied Logic (Scientific Area Editor), The Netherlands, Elsevier • AI
Communications, The Netherlands, IOS Press • Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic
Programming, U.K., Cambridge University Press
Agent Agreement Technologies
Cooperating Organizations: 20 European Universities
Funding: COST, European Commission
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Kakas, A. C. (2010). Abduction in Machine Learning. In Encyclopedia of Machine Learning. (pp. 3-9).
U.S.A.: Springer Verlag.
Kakas, A. C., Michael, L., & Miller, R. (2010). Modular-E: An Elaboration Tolerant Approach to the
Ramification and Qualification Problem. Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Special issue on the occasion
of the 80th birthday of the founder of Artificial Intelligence. Available from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2010.04.008.
Kakas, A. C., & Flach, P. A. (2009). Abduction and Induction in Artificial Intelligence. Edited special issue
of J. Applied Logic, 7(3), 251.
Kakas, A. C., Mancarella, P., Sadri, F., Stathis, K., & Toni, F. (2008). Computational Logic Foundations of KGP
Agents, 33, 285-348.
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Kakas, A. C., Amgoud, L., Kern-Isberner, G., Maudet, N., & Moraitis, P. (2010). ABA: Argumentation Based
Agents, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1005-1006). Germany.
Michael, L., & Kakas, A. C. (2009). Knowledge Qualification through Argumentation, Proceedings of the
10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (pp. 209-222).
Potsdam, Germany.
Noël, V., Kakas, A. C., & Gorgias C. (2009). Extending Argumentation with Constraint Solving, Proceedings
of the 10th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (pp. 535541). Potsdam, Germany.
Bandara, A. K., Kakas, A. C., Russo, A., & Lupu, E. C. (2009). Using Argumentation Logic for Firewall
Configuration Management, Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated
Network Management (pp. 281-288). New York, U.S.A.
Kakas, A. C., Michael, L., & Miller, R. (2008). Fred meets Tweety, Proceedings of 18th European Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’08 (pp. 747-748). Patras, Greece.
Kakas, A. C., & Moraitis, P. (2003). Argumentation based decision making for autonomous agents,
AAMAS '03: Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and
multiagent systems (pp. 883-890). New York: ACM Press.
Flach, P. & Kakas, A. C. (2000). Abduction and Induction: essays on their relation and integration. The
Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Kakas, A. C., Kowalski, R. A., & Toni, F. (1992). Abductive Logic Programming. J. Log. Comput., 2(6),
719-770.
ELPIDA KERAVNOU-PAPAILIOU Professor
STUDIES
Brunel University, U.K., B.Tech in Computer Science, 1982
Brunel University, U.K., Ph.D. in Cybernetics, 1985
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Europe (Board Member) • European Institute of
Innovation and Technology, Europe (Member of the Governing Board)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; Diagnostic Reasoning; Knowledge Engineering Expert Systems; Temporal Information Systems; Hybrid Decision Support Systems
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) (Associate Editor), International, Elsevier • Systems
Research and Information Science, International, Gordon and Breach
MEDROPLAN
Cooperating Organizations: CIHEAM, Belgium; Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain;
University of Cyprus, Cyprus; National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece;
Universita degli Studi di Catania, Spain; Institut Argonomique et Veterinaire Hassan II,
Morocco; Ministere de l’Agriculture et des Resources Hydrauliques, Tunisia; Ministerio de
Medio Ambiente Confederacion Hidrografica del Tajo, Spain; Canal de Isabel II, Spain;
Fundacion Ecologia y Desarrollo, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Combi, C., Keravnou-Papailiou, E., & Shahar, Y. (2010). Temporal Information Systems in Medicine. New
York: Springer.
Keravnou-Papailiou, E. (2009). Flexibility through Learning Outcomes: implications for quality. EUA
Bologna Handbook, Article B 2.3-2, 1-14.
Keravnou-Papailiou, E. (2008). Flexibility through Learning Outcomes: Implications for Quality, Proc. 3rd
European Quality Assurance Forum 2008 (EQAF 2008). Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
Available from http://www.eua.be/events/quality-assurance-forum-2008/themes/
Keravnou-Papailiou, E. (2010). Embedding Quality Culture in Higher Education Provision: the Cyprus
case, Invited presentation at the 7th International Congress on Quality Management in Education
Systems and Training: the management of education and training by the indicators (CIMQUSEF’2010).
Morocco (CD-ROM).
Keravnou, E. T. (1999). A Multidimensional and Multigranular Model of Time for Medical KnowledgeBased Systems. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (special issue on Intelligent Temporal
Information Systems in Medicine), 13, 73-120.
Lavrac, N., Keravnou, E. T., & Zupan, B. (Eds.). (1997). Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and
Pharmacology. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Keravnou, E. T. (1996). Temporal Diagnostic Reasoning Based on Time-Objects. Artificial Intelligence in
Medicine (special issue on Temporal Reasoning in Medicine), 8(3), 235-265.
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MARIOS MAVRONICOLAS Professor
STUDIES
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Diploma in Electrical Engineering, 1985
Harvard University, U.S.A., M.A. in Computer Science, 1988
Harvard University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1992
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Theoretical Computer Science (Associate Editor), International, Elsevier • Networks
(Associate Editor), International, Wiley • Journal of Interconnection Networks (Associate
Editor), International, World Scientific
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Algorithms and Complexity, with focus on Game Theory and Distributed and Parallel
Computing
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Mavronicolas, M., Papadopoulou, V., & Spirakis, P. (2008). Algorithmic Game Theory and Applications. In
A. Nayak, I. Stojmenovic (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Algorithms: Solving Scientific, Engineering and
Practical Problems (pp. 287-316). U.K.: John Wiley & Sons.
Mavronicolas, M., & Sauerward, T. (2010). The impact of randomization in smoothing networks.
Distributed Computing, 22(5-6), 381-411.
Feldmann, R., Mavronicolas, M., & Pieris, A. (2010). Facets of the Fully Mixed Nash Equilibrium
Conjecture. Theory of Computing Systems, 47(1), 60-112.
Gairing, M., Lücking, T., Mavronicolas, M., & Monien, B. (2010). Computing Nash Equilibria for Sceduling
on Restricted Parallel Links. Theory of Computing Systems, 47(2), 405-432.
Busch, C., & Mavronicolas, M. (2010). An efficient counting network. Theoretical Computer Science,
411(34-36), 3001-3030.
Mavronicolas, M., & Michael, L. (2009). A substitution theorem for graceful trees and applications.
Discrete Mathematics, 309(12), 3757-3766.
Mavronicolas, M., Michael, L. & Spirakis, P. G. (2009). Computing on a partially eponymous ring.
Theoretical Computer Science, 410(6-7), 519-613.
Gairing, M., Lücking, T., Mavronicolas, M., Monien, B., & Rode, M. (2008). Nash equilibria in discrete
routing games with convex latency functions. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 74(7),
1199-1225.
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Feldmann, R., Mavronicolas, M., & Monien, B. (2009). Nash Equilibria for Voronoi Games on Transitive
Graphs, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, Vol 5929
(pp. 280-291). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Rome, Italy: Springer-Verlag.
Mavronicolas, M., & Sauerwald, T. (2009). A Randomized, O(lοg w)-Depth 2-Smoothing Network,
Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures
(pp.178-187). Calgary, Canada.
Mavronicolas, M., Monien, B., Papadopoulou, V., & Schoppmann, F. (2008). Voronoi Games on Cycle
Graphs, Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer
Science, Vol 5162 (pp. 503-514). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Torun, Poland: Springer-Verlag.
Mavronicolas, M., & Spirakis, P. (2007). The Price of Selfish Routing. Algorithmica, 48(1), 91-126.
Fatourou, P., Mavronicolas, M., & Spirakis, P. (2005). Efficiency of Oblivious versus Non-Oblivious
Schedulers for Optimistic Rate-Based Flow Control. SIAM Journal on Computing, 34(5), 1216-1252.
Busch, C., & Mavronicolas, M. (1996). A Combinatorial Treatment of Balancing Networks. Journal of the
ACM, 43(5), 794-839.
GEORGE PALLIS Lecturer
STUDIES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc., 2001
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Ph.D., 2006
IEEE, U.S.A. • ACM, U.S.A. • ACM, Cyprus • ACM CYPRUS-SIGGHI, Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Internet Computing with emphasis on Content Distribution Networks; Cloud
Computing; Vehicular Networking; Online Social Networks and Web Data Clustering
EDITORIAL BOARDS
IEEE Internet Computing (Editor), U.S.A., IEEE • International Journal on Internet and
Distributed Computing Systems (Editor), Bangladesh, IJIDCS
Knowledge Discovery from Moving Objects (MOVE)
Cooperating Organizations: A Management Committee (MC) comprised of
representatives of the 19 countries that have joined the action
Funding: COST ACTION IC0903 Programme, European Commission
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SEARCHiN – Marie-Curie Action TOK
Cooperating Organizations: University of Manchester, U.K; National and Kapodistrian
Funding: Marie-Curie Action Programme, European Commission
A Vehicular Sensor Network Infrastructure (V-Sense)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; CERTH, Greece; University of
Nicosia, Cyprus
EMammoth-Compute and Store on Grids and Clouds Infrastructures
E-tracer (Principal investigator)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Datatech Business Solution,
Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Pallis, G., Zeinalipour, D., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Online Social Networks: Status and Trends. In L. Jain &
A. Vakali (Eds.), Web Data Management Trails (pp. 213-234). Germany: Springer.
Stamos, K., Pallis, G., & Vakali, A. (2008). Caching techniques on CDN simulated Frameworks. In R. Buyya
(Ed.), Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms (pp. 127-154). Germany: Springer.
Loulloudes, N., Pallis, G., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). Information Dissemination in Mobile CDNs. In R.
Buyya (Ed.), Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms (pp. 343-366). Germany: Springer.
Pallis, G. (2010). Cloud Computing: The New Frontier of Internet Computing. IEEE Internet Computing,
13(5), 70-73.
Pallis, G., Katsifodimos, A., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Searching for Software on the EGEE Infrastructure.
Journal of Grid Computing, 8(2), 281-304.
Stamos, K., Pallis, G., Vakali, A., Katsaros, D., Sidiropoulos, A., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2010). CDNsim: A
Simulation Tool for Content Distribution Networks. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer
Simulation, 20(2), 1-40.
Vakali, A. Sidiropoulos, A., & Manolopoulos, Y. (2009). CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized
Communities. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(1), 137-151.
Dikaiakos, M. D., Katsaros, D., Pallis, G., Vakali, A., & Mehra, P. (2009). Cloud Computing: Distributed
Internet Computing for IT and Scientific Research. IEEE Internet Computing, 12(5), 10-13.
Loulloudes, N., Pallis, G., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). On the Evaluation of Caching in Vehicular Information
Systems, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), IEEE
Computer Society (pp. 218-220). Kansas City, Missouri.
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Loulloudes, N., Pallis, G., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Caching Dynamic Information in Vehicular Ad-Hoc
Networks, Proceedings of Euro-Par 2010 (pp. 516-527 ). Ischia-Naples, Italy.
Katsifodimos, A., Pallis, G., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2009). Harvesting Large-Scale Grids for Software
Resources, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(pp. 252-259 ). Shanghai, China.
Pallis, G., Katsaros, D., Dikaiakos, M. D., Loulloudes, N., & Tassiulas, L. (2009). On the Structure and
Evolution of Vehicular Networks, Proceedings of 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International
Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (pp.
1-10). London, U.K.
Pallis, G., Katsifodimos, A., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2009). Effective Keyword Search for Software Resources in
Large-scale Network Environments, Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
Intelligence (pp. 482-489). Milano, Italy.
GEORGE-ANGELOS PAPADOPOULOS Professor
STUDIES
University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, 1982
University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., M.Sc. in Computer Science with Applications, 1983
University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1989
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Software Engineering; Programming Languages; Distributed and Parallel Systems;
Cooperative Information Systems; Internet Technologies
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Universal Computer Science (Editor), Germany, Springer • International Journal
of Computers and Their Applications (Editor), U.S.A., ISCA • International Journal of
Computers and Applications (Editor), U.S.A., IASTED • Journal of Next-Generation
Computing (Editor), U.S.A., Perpetual Innovation Media Pvt. Ltd. • Journal of Computing
and Applications, U.S.A., IACSE • International Magazine on Advances in Computer Science
and Telecommunications (Editor), U.S.A., IMACST • International Journal of Information
Technology, Communications and Convergence, U.S.A., InderScience Pubs. • International
Journal of Computer Science: Theory, Technology and Applications (Editor), U.S.A., Research
nation
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Cooperating Organizations: Quite a few (E.U. based)
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EPRI START
UNITE
Cooperating Organizations: Quite a few (E.U. based).
MUSIC
BETSY
MADAM
MVU
AVICENNA
MEDFORIST
Asterics
CVN
COIN-EEU
E-Thalassa
Cooperating Organization: IBM, U.S.A.
ERGADIKTYO
Cooperating Organizations: University of Nicosia, Cyprus; Virtual IT, Cyprus
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PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Granic, A., Cukusic, M., Zanavari, A., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2009). Employing Innovative Learning
Strategies using an eLearning Platform. In C. Mourlas, N. Tsianos, & P. Germanakos (Eds.), Cognitive and
Emotional Processes in Web-based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization (pp. 414436). U.S.A: IGI Global.
Paspallis, N., Eliassen, F., Hallsteinsen, S., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2009). Developing Self-Adaptive Mobile
Applications and Services with Separation-of-Concerns. In E. Di Nitto, A-M. Sassen, O. Traverso & A.
Zwegers (Eds.), At Your Service: Service-Oriented Computing from an EU Perspective (pp. 129-158).
Cambridge: MIT Press.
Kakousis, K., Paspallis, N., & Papadopoulos. G. A. (2010). A survey of software adaptation in mobile and
ubiquitous computing. Enterprise Information Systems, 4(40), 355-389.
Geihs, K., Barone, P., Eliassen, F., Floch, J., Fricke, R., Gjorven, E., Hallsteinsen, S., Horn, G., Khan, M.U.,
Mamelli, A., Papadopoulos, G. A., Paspallis, N., Reichle, R., & Stav, E. (2009). A comprehensive solution for
application-level adaptation. Software-Practice and Experience, 39(4), 385-422.
Chrysostomou, C. P., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2008). Towards an Object-Oriented Model for the Design
and Development of Learning Objects. International Journal on E-Learning, 7(2), 219-243.
Mettouris, C., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2010). Exploiting Context in Location-Based Information Systems,
10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010) (pp. 15931598). IEEE Press.
Sielis, G., Tzanavari, A., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2009). Enhancing the Creativity Process by Adding
Context Awareness in Creativity Support Tools, HCI International 2009 (HCI2009) (pp. 424-433). San
Diego, C.A., U.S.A., LNCS 5616.
Ullah Khan, U., Reichle, R., Wagner, M., Geihs, K., Scholz, U., Kakousis, C., & Papadopoulos, G. A. (2009).
An Adaptation Reasoning Approach for Large Scale Component-based Applications, Second Workshop
on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services (CAMPUS 2009), Vol.
19 (pp. 1-13). Lisbon, Portugal, ECEASST.
Geihs, K., Barone, P., Eliassen, F., Floch, J., Fricke, R., Gjorven, E., Hallsteinsen, S., Horn, G., Khan, M. U.,
Mamelli, A., Papadopoulos, G. A., Paspallis, N., Reichle, R., & Stav, E. (2009). A comprehensive solution for
application-level adaptation. Software-Practice and Experience, 39(4), 385-422.
Chimaris, A. N., & Papadopoulos, G. A., (2007). Implementing a Generic Component-Based Framework
for Telecontrol Applications. Software-Practice and Experience, 37(10), 1087-1132.
Papadopoulos, G. A., Stavrou, A., & Papapetrou, O. (2006). An Implementation Framework for Software
Architectures Based on the Coordination Paradigm. Science of Computer Programming, 60(1), 27-67.
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CONSTANTINOS S. PATTICHIS Professor
STUDIES
Higher Technical Institute (HTI), Cyprus, Diploma of Technician Engineer
in Electrical Engineering, 1979
University of New Brunswick, Canada, B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983
University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1984
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K., M.Sc. in Neurology, 1991
University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U.K., Doctor of Philosophy in
Electronic Engineering, 1992
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), International (Senior Member) •
Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and Computational Intelligence Societies,
International
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational Intelligence in Medical and Biological Systems; Medical Image Analysis
Systems: Ultrasound, Endoscopy, Microscopy; e-Health Systems; M-Health e-Emergency
Systems; Life Science Informatics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (Associate Editor and Guest
Editor), U.S.A., IEEE • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Editorial Advisory Board),
Elsevier, U.K. • Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (Guest Editor), U.K., Elsevier
Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education
Funding: FP7 eContentplus Programme, Best Practice Network, European Commission
Collaborative Research: Design, Implementation and Dissemination of Multidisciplinary
online Java Digital Signal Processing (J-DSP)
Funding: NSF, U.S.A. (multidisciplinary CCLI phase 3)
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Brain White Matter Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
Subjects
Real time Wireless Transmission of Medical Ultrasound Video
A Computer Aided Diagnostic tool in Gynaecological Endoscopy (CAD_Gen)
Cooperating Organization: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Cyprus
Funding: Call for High Technology and Innovative Incubator Companies
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Investigating Disease Associated Gene-Gene Interactions: A Distributed Complete two
SNP Interaction Analyses Framework,
Funding: Glaxo Smith Klime, U.K.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Loizou, C. P., & Pattichis, C. S. (2008). Despeckle Filtering Algorithms and Software for Ultrasound
Imaging. CA, U.S.A.: Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
SELECTED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Pattichis, C. S., Schnorrenberg, F., Tsapatsoulis, N., Schizas, C. N., Pattichis, M., & Kyriacou, K. (2008). A
Biopsy Analysis Support System for the Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer Nuclei. In J. S.
Suri, R. Rangayan, & S. Laxminarayan (Eds.), Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging and
Mammography (pp. 441-462). CA, U.S.A.: American Scientific Publishers.
Loizou, C., Pattichis, C. S., Christodoulou, C., Istepanian, R., Pantzaris, M., & Nicolaides, A. (2008).
Despeckle Filtering in Ultrasound Imaging of the Carotid Artery. In J. S. Suri, C. Kathuria, R. F. Chang, F.
Montannari, & A. Fenster, (Eds.), Advances in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Ultrasound Imaging (pp. 3763). MA, U.S.A.: Artech House.
Kyriacou, E., Christodoulou, C. I., Loizou, C., Pattichis, M.S ., Pattichis, C. S., Kakkos, S., & Nicolaides, A.
(2009). Assessment of Stroke by Analysing Carotid Plaque Morphology. In T. P. Exarchos, A.
Papadopoulos, & D. I. Fotiadis (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic
Imaging and Biomedical Applications (pp. 160-180). PA, U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Neofytou, M. S., Pattichis, C. S., Tanos, V., Pattichis, M. S., & Kyriacou, E. C. (2009). Quantitative Analysis of
Hysteroscopy Imaging in Gynaecological Cancer. In T. P. Exarchos, A. Papadopoulos, D. I. Fotiadis (Eds.),
Handbook of Research on Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Imaging and Biomedical Applications.
(pp. 181-196). PA, U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Panayides, A., Pattichis, M. S., Pattichis, C. S., Loizou, C. P., Pantziaris, M., & Pitsillides, A. (2009). Towards
Diagnostically Robust Medical Ultrasound Video Streaming using H.264. In Carlos Alexandre Barros De
Mello (Ed.), Biomedical Engineering (pp. 219-237). Vienna, Austria: IN-TECH.
Karaolis, M., Moutiris, J. A., Hadjipanayi, D., & Pattichis, C. S. (2010). Assessment of the Risk Factors of
Coronary Heart Events Based on Data Mining with Decision Trees. Special Section on New and Emerging
Technologies in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine, 14(3), 559-566.
Kyriacou, E., Pattichis, C., Christodoulou, C., Loizou, C., Pattichis, M., Kakkos, S., & Nikolaides, A. (2010). A
Review of Ultrasound Imaging of the Carotid Artery for the Assessment of the Risk of Stroke. IEEE
Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 14(4), 1027-1038.
Istenič, R., Kaplanis, P. A., Pattichis, C. S., & Zazula, D. (2010). Multiscale entropy-based approach to
automated surface EMG classification of neuromuscular disorders. Medical & Biological Engineering &
Computing, 48(8), 773-781.
Christodoulou, C. I., Pattichis, C. S., Kyriacou, E., Pantziaris, M., & Nicolaides, A. (2010). Content-Based
Image Retrieval for Carotid Plaque Ultrasound Images. The Open Cardiovascular Imaging Journal, 2,
18-28.
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Kaplanis, P., Pattichis, C. S., Hadjileontiou, L., & Roberts, C. (2009). Surface EMG Analysis on Normal
Subjects Based on Isometric Voluntary Contraction. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology,
19(1), 157-171.
Kyriacou, E., Pattichis, Pattichis, M. S., Mavrommatis, A., Panagiotou, S., Christodoulou, C. I., Kakkos, S., &
Nicolaides, A. (2009). Classification of Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaques Using Morphological Analysis on
Ultrasound Images. (best conference paper award) invited in special issue of Applied Intelligence, 30,
3-23.
Nicolaou, C. A., Apostolakis, J., & Pattichis, C. S. (2009). De Novo Drug Design Using Multiobjective
Evolutionary Graphs. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 49(2), 295-307.
Loizou, C. P., Pantziaris, M., Pattichis, M. S., Kyriakou, E., & Pattichis, C. S. (2009). Ultrasound Image Texture
Analysis of the Intima and Media Layers of the Common Carotid Artery and its Correlation with Age and
Gender. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 33(4), 317-324.
Loizou, C. P., Pattichis, C. S., Nicolaides, A., & Pantziaris, M. (2009). Manual and Automated Media and
Intima Thickness Measurements of the Common Carotid Artery. IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics
and Frequency Control, 56(5), 983-994.
Hadjinicolaou, M. G., Nilavalan, R., Itagaki, T., Voskarides, S. C., Pattichis, C. S. & Schizas, A. N. (2009).
Emergency TeleOrthoPaedics m-health system for wireless communication links. IET Commun. 3,
1284-1296.
ANNA PHILIPPOU Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Oxford, U.K., B.A. in Mathematics and Computation, 1992
University of Warwick, U.K., M.Sc. in Parallel Computers and Computation, 1993
University of Warwick, U.K., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1996
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), U.S.A. • European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), Europe • Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A., E.U.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Concurrency Theory; Formal Methods; Real-Time Systems; Algorithmic Game Theory
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), Korea, Korean Institute of
Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE) • International Journal on Software Tools for
Technology Transfer (Guest Editor), Germany, Springer • Logical Methods in Computer
Science (Guest Editor), Electronic Journal
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Algorithmic Principles for Building Efficient Overlay Computers (AEOLUS)
Cooperating Organizations: 21 partners, including University of Paderborn, Germany;
University of Patras, Greece; Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy; Technical
University of Catalania, Spain
Funding: European Commission, Research Directorate, FET, 6th Framework Programme
on Research, Technological Development and Demonstration, Information Society
Technologies Programme (IST)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Kowalewski, S. & Philippou, A. (2009). Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of
Systems. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the
Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2009). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5505, New
York: Springer.
Georgiou, C., Pavlides, T., & Philippou, A. (2009). Selfish Routing in the Presence of Network Uncertainty.
Parallel Processing Letters, 19(1), 141-157.
Mavronicolas, M., Papadopoulou, V., Philippou, A., & Spirakis, P. (2008). A Network Game with Attackers
and a Defender. Algorithmica, 51(3), 315-341.
Mavronicolas, M., Papadopoulou, V., Philippou, A., & Spirakis, P. (2008). A Graph-Theoretic Network
Security Game. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 1(4),
390 - 410.
Philippou, A., Lee, I., Sokolsky, O., & Choi, J.-Y. (2010). A Process Algebraic Framework for Modeling
Resource Demand and Supply, Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Formal Modeling and
Analysis of Timed Systems (FTRTFT 2010) (pp. 183-197). LNCS 6246, Austria, Vienna: Springer.
Efthymiou, X., & Philippou, A. (2010). A Process Calculus for Spatially-Explicit Ecological Systems, Proc. of
the 1st International Workshop on Application of Membrane Computing, Concurrency and Agentbased Modelling in Population Biology (pp. 84-89) (AMCA-POP 2010). Germany, Jena.
Gelastou, M., Georgiou, C., & Philippou, A. (2008). On the Application of Formal Methods for Specifying
and Verifying Distributed Protocols, Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network
Computing and Applications (NCA 2008) (pp. 195-204). Cambridge, U.S.A.: IEEE Computer Science Press.
Philippou, A., & Walker, D. (1998). On Transformations of Concurrent-Object Programs. Theoretical
Computer Science, 195(2), 259-289.
Philippou, A., Lee, I., & Sokolsky, O. (2000). Weak Βisimulation for Probabilistic Systems, Proceedings of
the 11th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (pp. 334-349). LNCS 1877. U.S.A.: Springer.
Lee, I., Philippou, A., & Sokolsky, O. (2007). Resources in Process Algebra. Journal of Logic and Algebraic
Programming, 72(1), 98-122.
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ANDREAS PITSILLIDES Professor
STUDIES
University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), U.K., B.Sc. in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1980
Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Australia, Ph.D. in High Speed Multimedia
Networks, 1993
International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee (TC1.5) on
Networked Systems • International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical
Committee (TC7.4) on Transportation Systems • Federation of Information Processing
(IFIP) Working Group WG 6.3 (Working group 6.3): Performance of Communications
Systems Research and Academic Network • European National Research and Education
Networks (NREN), Europe (Policy Committee Member) • Institute of the Electrical and
Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (Elected Senior Member) U.S.A. • Cyprus Scientific and
Technical Chamber (ETEK), Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Control Theoretic Techniques for solving problems in communication networks;
Congestion and Flow Control; Resource Allocation and Radio Resource Management;
Internet of Things and Web of Things, Internet Technologies Application in m-Healthcare.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board of Computer Networks Journal (COMNET) (Area Editor), The Netherlands,
Elsevier • International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) (Editorial Review
Board), IGI Global, U.S.A.
Rapidly-deployable, Self-tuning, Self-reconfigurable, Nearly-optimal Control Design for
Large-Scale Nonlinear Systems (AGILE), Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: Centre For Research And Technology Hellas CERTH, Greece;
University Of Cyprus, Cyprus; The Pennsylvania State University PSU, U.S.A.; Afcon
Software and Electronics Ltd Asel, Israel; Sociedad Iberica De Construcciones Electricas
Sa Sice, Spain; Siemens Anonymos Etaireia Ilektrotechnikon Ergon Kai Proionton Sie,
Greece; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V Fibp,
Germany; Municipality of Chania TCD, Greece
Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (GINSENG), Co- Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: University College Cork, Ireland; Galp Energia SA; SAP AG,
Portugal; Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB, Sweden; Technische Universitaet
Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Lancaster
University, U.K.
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Context Casting (C-CAST) Co-Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: Portugal Telecom Inovação, Portugal; Telecom Italia, Italy;
Deutsche Welle, Denmark; BigBand Networks, U.S.A.; MotorolaFrance; FraunhoferGesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung, Denmark; Instituto de
Telecomunicações, Portugal; University of St Gallen, Switzerland; University of the West
of England, U.K.; University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Denmark; University of
Kaiserslautern, Denmark; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Middleware platform for eMPOWERing cognitive disabled and elderly (MPOWER) (20062009), Co- Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: SINTEF, Norway; Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d., Croatia; Austrian
Research Centers GmbH – ARC, Austria; Psykiatrien i Vestfold HF, Norway; Uniwersytet
Jagiellonski Collegium Medicum, Poland; Dimension Informatica, Madrid; TB-Solutions
Advanced Technologies S.L., Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Advanced MBMS For The Future Mobile World (C-MOBILE) (2006-2008), Principal
Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: Portugal Telecom Inovação S.A., Portugal; Telecom
R & D, France; Deutsche Welle, Germany; Bamboo MediaCasting, Israel; University of
Cyprus, Cyprus; Associaçãp para o Desenvolvimento das Telecomunicações e Técnicas de
Informática, Spain; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; University of West of England,
U.K.; University of Applied Sciences, Zurich; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal;
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V, Germany;
QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies GmbH, Germany; Hutchison 3G Ltd, U.K.
MObile Terminal Information Value addEd Functionality (MOTIVE), Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: Bigband Network Ltd, Hutchison Whampoa, Europe; Limited,
Universitat St Gallen, Germany; Telecom Italia Spa, Italy; Instituto De Telecomunicacoes,
Portugal; Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany; Motorola Sas, France;
Stiftung Fachhochschule Osnabrueck, Germany; University Of The West of England, U.K.;
Bristol, U.K.; Deutsche Welle, Germany; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; FraunhoferGesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Germany
Enterprise Application Interoperability via Internet - Integration for SMEs, Governmental
Organisations and Intermediaries in the new European Union (GENESIS)
Cooperating Organizations: National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Logo Yazilim
Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Turkey; SAP AG, Germany; BOC Information Systems GmbH,
Germany; Business Application Software Developers' Association, U.K.; Kauno
Technologijos Universitetas, Spain; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Singular Czech S.R.O.,
Chech Republic; Ascont International SRL, Italy; BOYTAS MOBILYA Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.,
Kyrgyzstan; Ministry of Finance – General Secretariat for Information Systems, Greece;
Insiel Informatica Per Il Sistema Degli Enti Locali S.p.A., Italy; SingularLogic Information
Systems & Applications SA, Greece
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CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments (CRUISE)
Cooperating Organizations: Network of excellence with 32 internationally recognised
expert partners
Funding: FP6, European Commission (Network of Excellence)
Mimicking Nature for Designing Robust Congestion Control Mechanisms in SelfOrganized Autonomous Decentralized Networks (MiND2C), Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: University of Pretoria, South Africa; Goldsmiths College
University of London, U.K.
Emergency Message Dissemination for Safety Applications in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
(EM-VANETS), Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: University of Southern California, U.S.A.; Open University of
Cyprus, Transim, Cyprus
Intelligent Control of Transportation System (TRAFICNET), Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: University of Southern California, U.S.A.; Cellock, Cyprus
Security in Sensor Networks (ASPIDA), Scientific Principal Investigator
Cooperating Organizations: SIGINT solutions, U.K.; University of Piraeus, Greece
KIOS (IPE), Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, Participant
NefroBiobank (IPE) Creation of a kidney specific Biobank and infrastructure for
genomics/proteomics research, Participant
Location finding for Current and Next Generation Mobile Networks (HRA), Participant
Cooperating Organization: Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Mylonas, Y., Lestas, M., Xeros, A., Andreou, M., & Pitsillides, A. (2010). Probabilistic Information
Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In M. Mohamed, K. Watfa (Eds.), Book Chapter in Advances
in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Developments and Challenges (pp. 233-255). U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Panayides, A., Pattichis, M. S., Pattichis, C. S., Loizou, C. P., Pantziaris, M., & Pitsillides, A. (2009). Towards
Diagnostically Robust Medical Ultrasound Video Streaming using H.264. In Carlos Alexandre Barros De
Mello (Eds.), Biomedical Engineering (pp. 219-237). Vienna, Austria: IN-TECH.
Chrysostomou, C., & Pitsillides, A. (2009). Fuzzy Logic Control in Communication Networks. Foundation
on Computational Intelligence. In A. E. Hassanien & A. Abraham (Eds.), Studies in Computational
Intelligence (pp. 197-236). Germany: Springer Verlag, 2, SCI 202.
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Antoniou, P., Pitsillides, A. (2010). A Bio-Inspired Approach for Streaming Applications in Wireless Sensor
Networks based on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model. Computer Communications (COMCOM)
Journal, 33, 2039–2047. Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2010.07.020
Christoforou, C., Pitsillides, A., & Lundborg, T. (2010). Enhanced Radio Resource Management Algorithms
for Efficient MBMS Service Provision in UTRAN. Computer Networks Journal (COMNET). Available from
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2010.10.010
Stavrou, E., Pitsillides, A. (2010). A Survey on Secure Multipath Routing Protocols in WSNs. Computer
Networks Journal (COMNET), 54(13), 2215-2238. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.02.015.
Antoniou, J., Papadopoulou, V., Vassiliou, V., & Pitsillides, A. (2010). Cooperative User-Network
Interactions in Next Generation Communication Networks. Computer Networks Journal (COMNET), 54,
2239–2255. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2010.03.013.
Antoniou, J., Koukoutsidis, I., Jaho, E., Pitsillides, A., & Stavrakakis, I. (2009). Access Network Synthesis
Game in Next Generation Networks. Computer Networks Journal (COMNET), 53, 2716-2726. doi:
information:10.1016/j.comnet.2009.06.006.
Xeros, A., Lestas, M., Andreou, M., & Pitsillides, A. (2010). Adaptive Probabilistic Flooding for Information
Hovering in VANETs, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2010). Jersey City, NJ, U.S.A. (CD-ROM).
Kamilaris, A., Iannarilli, N., Trifa, V., & Pitsillides, A. (2010). Bridging the Mobile Web and the Web of Things
in Urban Environments, First International Workshop the Urban Internet of Things (UrbanIOT 2010), (in
conjunction with the Second International Conference on the Internet of Things 2010 (IOT 2010). Tokyo
(CD-ROM).
Antoniou, P., Pitsillides, A., Engelbrecht, A., Blackwell, T., & Michael, L. (2009). Congestion Control in
Wireless Sensor Networks, based on the Bird Flocking Behavior, IWSOS 4th IFIP International Workshop
on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009), In T. Spyropoulos, K.A. Hummel (Eds.), Proceedings: Self
Organising Systems, EWSOS 2009 (pp. 220-225). ETH Zurich, Switzerland, LNCS 5918.
Antoniou, P., & Pitsillides, A. (2009). Congestion Control in Autonomous Decentralized Networks Based
on the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model, ICAAN 2009 19th International Conference on Artificial
Neural Networks. Limassol, Cyprus (CD-ROM).
Antoniou, J., Riede, C., Cabral Pinto, F., & Pitsillides, A. (2009). In B., Jean-Marie; G., Carlo; T., Magedanz
(Eds.). Context Aware Multiparty Session Support for Adaptive Multicasting in Heterogeneous Mobile
Networks, MOBILWARE 2009, International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating
Systems, and Applications, Berlin, Germany, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences
(LNICST 0007), Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 7, XI (pp. 340-351). Berlin.
Lestas, M., Pitsillides, A., & Ioannou, P. (2007). Adaptive Congestion Protocol: A Congestion Control
Protocol with Learning Capability. Computer Networks Journal (COMNET), 51(13), 3773-3798.
Pitsillides, A., Ioannou, P., Lestas, M., & Rossides, L. (2005). Adaptive nonlinear congestion controller for a
differentiated-services framework. IEEE/ACM Transactions of Networking, 13(1), 94-107.
Pitsillides, A., Sekercioglu, A., & Ramamurthy, G. (1997). Effective Control of Traffic Flow in ATM Networks
Using Fuzzy Explicit Rate Marking (FERM). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC),
15(2), 209-225.
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GEORGE SAMARAS Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.S. in Mathematics, 1982
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), U.S.A., M.S. in Computer Science, 1984
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1989
ACM Computer Society, U.S.A. • IEEE Computer Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Database Systems; Mobile, Wireless and Pervasive Computing; Data Management in
Sensor Networks; Personalization Systems; WWW Information Retrieval
EDITORIAL BOARDS
International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST), U.K.,
Inderscience Publishers
The smarTag Framework for the Adaptation of Generic Web Environments
Co-living
Cooperating Organizations: Citard LtD, International
Funding: RPF, Cyprus and European Commission
SocialRobot
CONET
IPAC
mPower
MOTIVE
HealthService24
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EPRI
W-Response
B-BONE
Firewatch
Cooperating Organizations: Citard LtD, International; Geomatic T chnologies Ltd, Cyprus
MELCO: Mobile Elderly Living Community
Cooperating Organizations: ΤΕΠΑΚ, Cyprus; Cosine LTD, U.K.; Social Services Center of
Ayios Dhometios, Cyprus
EKPAIDION: Personalized and Adaptive Multimedia Educational Environments
GITONIA: Improving Quality of Life by Utilizing Multimedia Mobile Wireless Technologies
(& Sensors) to watch the Neighborhood by the local authorities
Cooperating Organization: Cosine Ltd, U.K.; Ithaki Consulting Ltd, Cyprus
ePavsanias: A Multimedia Database for Archeological Excavations Salonika
MHTIS: Development of relationally complete interactive querying methods for mobile
devices and personal computers
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Georgiadis, D., Germanakos, P., Mourlas, C., Samaras, G., & Christodoulou, E. (2010). Dynamic Business
Processes and Virtual Communities in Wireless eHealth Environments. In S. Mohammed, & J. Fiaidhi
(Eds.), Ubiquitous and Medical Informatics: Advancements in Web 2.0, Health 2.0 and Medici e 2.0 (pp.
431-456). Hershey, U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Georgiadis, D., Germanakos, P., Samaras, G., Mourlas, C., & Christodoulou, E. (2010). An Intelligent Webbased Healthcare System: The Case of DYMOS. In A. Lazakidou (Ed.), Web-based Applications in Health
Care and Biomedicine of the Annals of Information Systems Series (AoIS) (pp. 19-46). Berlin Hedelberg:
Springer-Verlag.
Yousef, Al-Houmaily, J., & Samaras, G. (2009). Two-Phase Commit. In Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (pp. 3204-3209). New York, U.S.A.: Springer.
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Yousef, Al-Houmaily, J., & Samaras, G. (2009). Three-Phase Commit In Ö. M. Tamer, & L. Ling (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (pp. 3091-3097). New York, U.S.A.: Springer.
Georgiadis, D., Germanakos, P., Andreou, P., & Samaras G. (2009). Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services
and Applications within Smart Houses Context. Springer Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol.5597, Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City (pp. 245-248).
Belk, M., Germanakos, P., Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2009). A Dynamic User Centric
Framework for Enhancing eServices Effectiveness Aiming at Mass Customization. In C. Mourlas, & P.
Germanakos (Eds.), Mass Customization for Personalized Communication Environments: Integrating
Human Factors. Hershey (pp. 108- 132). U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Germanakos, P., Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., Belk, M., & Samaras, G. (2009). Towards an Adaptive
and Personalized Web Interaction using Human Factors. In M. Angelides (Ed.), Advances in Semantic
Media Adaptation and Personalization (Vol 2., pp. 247-282). LLC: Taylor & Francis Group.
Germanakos, P., Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., Belk, M., & Samaras, G. (2009). Incorporating Human
Factors in the Development of Context-Aware Personalized Applications: The Next Generation of
Intelligent User Interfaces. In D. Stojanovic (Ed.), Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for
Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications (pp. 362-382). Hershey, U.S.A.: IGI Global
(former Idea Group, Inc.).
Germanakos, N., Tsianos, P., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2008). The Role of Human Factors in
Web Personalization Environments. In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (2nd ed.,
pp. 3338 - 3344). U.S.A.: IGI Global.
Tsianos, N., Germanakos, P., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2008). An Assessment of Human
Factors in Adaptive Hypermedia Environments. In C. Mourlas, & P. Germanakos (Eds.), Intelligent User
Interfaces: Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies (pp. 1-34.). Hershey, U.S.A.: IGI
Global.
Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Germanakos, P., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2009). An Experimental Assessment of
the Use of Cognitive and Affective Factors in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia. IEEE Transactions on
Learning Technologies (TLT). IEEE Computer Society, 2(3), 249-258. doi:10.1109/TLT.2009.29.
Obermeier, S., Böttcher, S., Hett, M., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). Blocking Reduction for
Distributed Transaction Processing within MANETs. Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal/An
International Journal, 25(3),165-192.
Germanakos, P., Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2008). Realizing Comprehensive User
Profiling as the Core Element of Adaptive and Personalized Communication Environments and Systems.
The Computer Journal, Special Issue on Profiling Expertise and Behaviour. doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxn014.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Tsianos N., Germanakos P., Lekkas Z., Mourlas C., & Samaras G. (2010). Working Memory Span and ELearning: The Effect of Personalization Techniques on Learners’ Performance, Proceedings of the 2nd
and 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP2010).
(pp. 64-74). Big Island of Hawaii, U.S.A., LNCS, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Andreou, P., Spanos, O., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Samaras, G., & Chrysanthis, P. K. (2009). FSort: External
Sorting on Flash-based Sensor Devices, The 6th International Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks (DMSN 2009) (pp. 10:1--10:6). Lyon, France: ACM.
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Germanakos, P., Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Belk, M., Mourlas, C., & Samaras G. (2009). Proposing Web Design
Enhancements based on Specific Cognitive Factors: An Empirical Evaluation, Proceedings of the 2009
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2009) (pp. 602-605). Milan, Italy: IEEE
Computer Society Press.
Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Andreou, M., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). Perimeter-Based
Data Replication and Aggregation in Mobile Sensor Networks, 10th International Conference on Mobile
Data Management (MDM'09) (pp. 244-251).Tapei, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society.
Lekkas, Z., Tsianos, N., Germanakos, P., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2009). Implementing Affect Parameters
in Personalized Web-based Design, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on HumanComputer Interaction – HCI International 2009 (HCI 2009) (pp. 320-329). San Diego, CA, U.S.A., LNCS &
LNAI, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Vassiliadou, M., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). KSpot:
Effectively Monitoring the K Most Important Events in a Wireless Sensor Network, 25th International
Conference on Data Engineering March (ICDE'09) (pp.1503-1506). Shanghai, China.
Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2008). Workload-aware Query Routing
Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. of the 9th Int’l Conference on Mobile Data Management
(MDM’08) (pp. 189-196). Beijing, China.
Tsianos, N., Lekkas, Z., Germanakos, P., Mourlas, C., & Samaras, G. (2008). User-centered Profiling on the
basis of Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics: An Empirical Study, Proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH 2008) (pp.
214-223). Hannover, Germany : Springer Verlag, (Best Student Paper Award).
Papastavrou, S., Samaras, G., & Pitoura, E. (1999). Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access,
Proc. 15th International Data Engineering Conference (ICDE 1999) (pp. 228-237). Sydney, Australia (Best
Paper Award).
Samaras, G., Britton, K., Citron, A., & Mohan, C. (1995). Two-Phase Commit Optimizations in a
Commercial Distributed Environment. Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, 3(4), 325-361.
YIANNAKIS SAZEIDES Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Oakland University, U.S.A., B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, 1991
Cornell University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1992
University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer Architecture
IEEE, U.K.
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EDITORIAL BOARDS
MICRO Special Issue on TOP Picks 2010 (Member Technical Program Committee), U.K., IEEE
• MICRO Special Issue on TOP Picks 2008 (Member Technical Program Committee), U.K., IEEE
Funding for research in the area of Cache-Content Duplication
Grant for research in the area of Reliability and Temperature
Funding: Intel
Grant for research in the area of Trace-prediction and Trace-optimizations Methods for
Improved Performance and Power
Funding: Intel
HiPEAC
Various (PhD Fellowships for research, collaboration and travel grants)
Cooperating organizations: Inria, France; Irisa, France; Ghent University, Belgium;
University Murcia, Spain; University of Spain, Spain
Eurocloud
Cooperating organizations: ARM, U.K.; Nokia, Finland; IMEC, Belgium; EPFL, Switzerland
Funding to support postdoctoral research on temperature constrained multi-cores
Cooperating Organization: Inria, France; Irisa, France
PUBLICATIONS
Sazeides, Y., Moustakas, A., Constantinides, K., & Kleanthous, M. (2008). Improving Branch Prediction by
Considering Affectors and Affectees Correlations. Transactions on HiPEAC, 3(1), 69-88.
Özer, E., Flautner, K., Idgunji, S., Saidi, A., Sazeides, Y., et al (2010). EuroCloud: Energy-conscious 3D
Server-on-Chip for Green Cloud Services. ACLD. France (CD-ROM).
Kleanthous, M., Sazeides, Y., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Extrinsic and Intrinsic Text Cloning, WIOSCA.
France (CD-ROM).
Michaud, P., Sazeides, Y., & Seznec, A. (2010). Proposition for a Sequential Accelerator in Future GeneralPurpose Manycore Processors and the Problem of Migration-Induced Caches Misses. ACM International
Conference on Computing Frontiers. Italy (CD-ROM).
Ladas, N., Sazeides, Y.,& Desmet, V. (2010). Performance Effective Operation below Vcc-min, IEEE ISPASS.
U.S.A. (CD-ROM).
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Ladas, N., Sazeides, Y., & Desmet, V. (2010). Performance Implications of Faults in Prediction Arrays, 2nd
HiPEAC Workshop on Design for Reliability. Italy (CD-ROM).
Sazeides, Y., Kourouyiannis, C., Ladas, N., & Desmet, V. (2009). Protecting Prediction Arrays Against Faults,
IEEE Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic - System Effects. U.S.A. (CD-ROM).
Kleanthous, M., & Sazeides, Y. (2008). CATCH: A Mechanism for Dynamically Detecting Cache-ContentDuplication and its Application to Instruction Caches, Design, Automation and Test in Europe. Germany
(CD-ROM).
Sazeides, Y., Moustakas, A., Constantinides, K., & Kleanthous, M. (2008). The Significance of Affectors and
Affectees Correlations for Branch Prediction, International Conference on High Performance Embedded
Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC). Sweden (CD-ROM).
Seznec, S. Felix, V., Krishnan, & Sazeides, Y. (2002). Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch
Predictor, 28th International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
Sazeides, Y., & Smith, J. (1997). The Predictability of Data Values, 30th International Symposium on
Microarchitecture.
Rotenberg, E., Jacobson, Q., Sazeides, Y., & Smith, J. (1997). Trace Processors, 30th International
Symposium on Microarchitecture.
CHRISTOS N. SCHIZAS Professor
STUDIES
University of London, Queen Mary College, U.K., B.Sc.(Eng.) in Electronic Engineering, 1978
University of London, Queen Mary College, U.K., Ph.D. in Systems Theory, Ph.D., 1981
University of Indianapolis, U.S.A., MBA, 1988
British Computer Society, U.K. (Fellow) • Institute of Electrical Engineers, U.K. (Fellow) •
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, U.S.A., (Senior Member) • European
Society for Engineering in Medicine, E.U. • Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber
(ETEK), Cyprus • International Neural Network Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational Intelligence (Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy
Systems); Medical Informatics; Brain Computer Interaction; Bioinformatics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Technology and Health Care (Editorial Board), E.U., IOS Press • Journal of
Intelligent Systems (Editorial Board), Freund & Pettman publishers • IEEE Transactions on
Information Technology in Biomedicine (Area Editor), U.S.A., IGI Global • International
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Journal of Information Technology Research (Editorial Board), U.S.A., IGI Global • Special
Issue on Emerging Health Telematics Applications in Europe, IEEE Transactions on
Information Technology in Biomedicine (Guest Editor), U.S.A., IGI Global
-mEducator - Multi-type Content Repurposing and Sharing in Medical Education
Cooperating Organizations: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; University of
Cyprus, Cyprus; Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Medical Exchange MEDTING
Ltd, Cyprus; University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France; University of Helsinki, Greece;
Open University,U.K.; Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Medical University
Plovdiv, Bulgaria; University of Catania, Spain; Succubus Interactive, France; European
Cervical Cancer Association, France
Funding: 7FP eContentplus, European Commission
-NatureSDIplus
Cooperating Organizations: 30 organizations including, GISIG - Geographical Information
Systems International Group, Italy; OEAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria;
TRACASA - Trabajos Catastrales (ES), International; INGRIT - Intergraph Italia, Italy; EPSGR
Epsilon International, Greece, K.U.Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium;
Fraunhofer - Fraunhofer Institute, Denmark, Denmark; URSIT – URSIT, Bulgaria
Funding: 7FP eContentplus, European Commission
A Novel Keyword Searching Paradigm in Relational Databases: Object Summaries
A Generalized Fuzzy Cognitive Map System for Simulation of Real Systems.
Cooperating Organizations: Technological University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Cyprus Ministry
of Defence, Cyprus
Multidisciplinary approach for investigating selective attention.
Cooperating Organizations: Technological University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Laboratory for
Human Brain Dynamics-SME, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Pattichis, C. S., Schnorrenberg, F., Tsapatsoulis, Schizas, C. N., Pattichis, M., & Kyriacou, K. (2008). A Biopsy
Analysis Support System for the Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer Nuclei. In S. Suri, R.
Rangayan, & S. Laxminarayan (Eds.), Emerging Technologies in Breast Imaging and Mammography (pp.
441-462). CA, U.S.A.: American Scientific Publishers.
Neokleous K. C., Schizas N. C., Avraamides M. N., Ioannides A., & Neocleous, C. C. (2009). A proposed
extension of the CODAM model for human attention. In G. Papadopoulos, W. Wojtkowski, G. Wojtkowski,
S. Wrycza, & J. Zupancic (Eds.), Information Systems Development; Towards as Service Provision Society.
(pp. 141-147). U.S.A.: Springer.
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Neocleous, K. C., Avraamides, M. N., & Schizas, C. N. (2009). Computational modeling of visual selective
attention based on correlation and synchronization of neural activity. In L. Illiadis, I. Vlahavas, & M.
Bramer (Eds.). Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations III (pp. 215-223). U.S.A.: Springer.
Neokleous, K. C., Avraamides, M. N., Neokelous, C. K., & Schizas, C. N. (2010). Selective attention and
consciousness: investigating their relation through computational modelling. Cognitive Computation,
3, 321-331.
Neokleous K. C., Schizas N. C., Avraamides M. N., & Neocleous C. C. (2009). A neural network model of
the attentional blink phenomenon. International journal of engineering intelligent systems for electrical
engineering and communications, 17, 115-126.
Neokleous K. C., Schizas N. C., Avraamides M. N., & Neocleous C.C. (2009). A Neural Network
Computational Model of Visual Selective Attention. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 43, 350-358.
Neocleous, C. C., Nikolaides, K. H., Neokleous, K. C., & Schizas, C. N.(2010). Ethnicity as a Factor for the
Estimation of the Risk for Preeclampsia: A Neural Network Approach, Proceedings of the SETN 2010.
LNAI 6040 (pp. 395–398). Athens, Greece.
Neocleous, C. C., Nikolaides, K. H., Neokleous, K. C., & Schizas, C. N. (2010). First trimester diagnosis of
Trisomy-21 by using artificial neural networks, Proceedings of the MEDICON 2010 Conference. Porto
Carras, Greece. Available from http://www.medicon2010.org/
Neocleous, C. C., Nikolaides, K. H., Neokleous, K. C., & Schizas, C.N. (2010). Artificial neural networks for
non-invasive chromosomal abnormality screening of fetuses, Proceedings of the WCCI 2010. Barcelona,
Spain. Available from http://www.wcci2010.org/
Neokleous, C. K., Avraamides, N. M., Neocleous, K. C., & Schizas, C. N. (2009). A Neural Network
Computational Model of Visual Selective Attention, Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 43, 350-358.
Neokleous, K. C., Avraamides, M. N., Neokleous, C. K., & Schizas, C. N. (2010). Selective attention and
consciousness: investigating their relation through computational modelling. Cognitive Computation,
3, 321-331.
Neokleous, K. C., Schizas, N. C., Avraamides, M. N., & Neocleous, C. C. (2009). A neural network model of
the attentional blink phenomenon. International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for
Electrical Engineering and Communications, 17, 115-126.
Poirazi, Y., Neokleous, K. C., Pattichis, C. S., & Schizas, C. N. (2004). A Neural Network Architecture Inspired
from the Modular Organization of the Cerebral cortex. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15(3),
597-612.
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PEDRO TRANCOSO Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, Undergraduate Degree in Electrical and Computer
Engineering, 1992
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Computer Science, 1995
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1998
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A. • IEEE Computer Society,
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A. • Association for Computer
Machinery (ACM), U.S.A.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Computing in Science & Engineering (Co-Editor of Novel Computing Architectures
Column), U.S.A., IEEE • International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture
(IJHPSA) (Member of the Editorial Board), Switzerland, Inderscience
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computer Architecture; Parallel Processing; Memory Hierarchy Design; Performance
Evaluation; Database Workloads
Exploiting Dataflow Parallelism in Teradevice Computing (TERAFLUX)
Cooperating organizations: University of Siena, Italy (Coordinator); Barcelona
Supercomputing Center, Spain; CAPS Enterprise, China; Hewlett Packard, U.S.A.; INRIA,
France; Microsoft R&D, Israel; THALES SA, France; University of Augsburg, Germany;
University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Manchester, U.K.
HiPEAC2, European Network of Excellence on High-Performance and Embedded
Architecture and Compilation (NoE)
Security in Open Multi-Application SMART CARDS (S-OMA SMART CARDS)
Cooperating organizations: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Athens University
of Economics, Greece
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PUBLICATIONS
Shi, G., Kindratenko, V., Pratas, F., Trancoso, P., & Gschwind, M. (2010). Application Acceleration with the
Cell Broadband Engine. IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, 12(1), 76-81.
Aguilar-Saborit, J., Trancoso, P., Muntes-Mulero, V., & Larriba-Pey, J. L. (2008). Dynamic Adaptive Data
Structures for Monitoring Data Streams. Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal, Elsevier Science, 66(1),
92-115.
Pratas, F., Trancoso, P., Stamakis, A., & Sousa, L. (2009). Fine-grain Parallelism using Multi-core, Cell/BE,
and GPU Systems: Accelerating the Phylogenetic Likelihood Function, 38th International Conference on
Parallel Processing (ICPP-2009) (pp. 9-17). Vienna, Austria.
Stavrou, K., Pavlou, D., Nikolaides, M., Petrides, P., Evripidou, P., Trancoso, P., Popovic, Z., & Giorgi, R.
(2009). Programming Abstractions and Toolchain for Multithreaded Dataflow Architectures, 8th
International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC'09) (pp. 107-114). Lisbon,
Portugal.
Trancoso, P., Othonos, D., Artemiou, A. (2009). Data Parallel Acceleration of Decision Support Queries
Using Cell/BE and GPUs, 2009 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF'2009)
(pp. 117-126). Ischia, Italy.
Stavrou, K., Pavlou, D., Nicolaides, M., Arandi, S., Evripidou, P., & Trancoso, P. (2008). TFlux: A Portable
Platform for Data-Driven Multithreading on Commodity Multicore Systems, 37th International
Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2008) (pp. 25-34). Portland, U.S.A.
Pappas, M., Larriba-Pey, J-L & Trancoso, P. (2008). Categorized Sliding Window in Streaming Data
Management Systems, 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA '08 ) (pp. 625-635). Turin, Italy.
Trancoso, P., & Artemiou, A. (2008). Exploring the GPU to Accelerate DSS Query Execution, ACM
Conference on Computing Frontiers, poster session (pp. 109-110). Ischia, Italy.
Papadopoulos, K., Stavrou, K., & Trancoso, P. (2008). HelperCoreDB: Exploiting Multicore Technology for
Databases, 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2008)
(pp. 1-11). Miami, U.S.A.
Tatas, K., Kyriacou, C., Wong, S., Trancoso, P., & Evripidou, P. (2008). Rapid Prototyping of the Data-Driven
Multithreading Chip-Multiprocessor using FPGAs, 2nd HiPEAC Workshop on Reconfigurable
Computing. Goteborg, Sweden (CD-ROM).
Kyriacou, C., Evripidou, P., & Trancoso, P. (2006). Data Driven Multithreading Using Conventional
Microprocessors. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 17(10), 1176–1188.
Trancoso, P., & Torrellas, J. (1999). Cache Optimization for Memory-Resident Decision Support
Commercial Workloads, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'99) (pp. 546-554). IEEE
Computer Society.
Trancoso, P., Larriba-Pey, J.-L., Zhang, Z., & Torrellas, J. (1997). The Memory Performance of DSS
Commercial Workloads in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, Third International Symposium on HighPerformance Computer Architecture (HPCA-3) (pp. 250-260). IEEE Computer Society.
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VASOS VASSILIOU Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus, HND in Electrical Engineering, 1993
University of South Florida, U.S.A., B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1997
Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1999
Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2002
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A. (Executive Council Member,
Cyprus Section) • Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), U.K • Association of
Computing Machinery (ACM), U.S.A. • Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK),
Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Communication Networks; Sensor, Ad-hoc, and Vehicular Networks; Mobility
Management in Computer Networks; Multimedia Multicasting in Mobile Networks; Fault
Tolerance and Traffic Engineering for MPLS
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Telecommunication Systems, Modelling, Analysis, Design, and Management Journal
(Associate Editor), U.S.A., Springer • International Journal of E-Health and Medical
Communications (Review Board), U.S.A., IGI-Global
ADAVIDEO: Adaptive Methods for the Transmission of Video Streams in Wireless
Networks - University of Cyprus, Small Research Projects
Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (GINSENG)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cork (coordinator), Ireland; University of
Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Coimbra, Portugal; Swedish Institute of Computer Science,
Sweden; TU Braunschweig, Denmark; Lancaster University, U.K.; SAP, Denmark; GALP
Energia, Portugal
Funding: FP7 ICT, European Commission
Context Casting (CAST)
Cooperating Organizations: Bigband Network Ltd, U.S.A.; Universitat St. Gallen,
Switzerland; Telecom Italia Spa, Italy; Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal;
Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Denmark; Motorola SAS, France; Stiftung
Fachhochschule Osnabrueck, Denmark; Univeristy of the West of England, U.K.; Deutsche
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Welle, Denmark; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung
Der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Denmark
Funding: FP7 ICT, European Commission
Advanced MBMS for the Future Mobile World (C-MOBILE)
Cooperating Organizations: Portugal Telecom Inovação, Portugal; France Telecom,
France; Deutsche Welle, Denmark; Bamboo, U.S.A.; University of Cyprus, Cyprus; ADETTI,
Portugal; University of St. Gallen, Switzerland; University of the West of England, U.K.;
University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Denmark, Instituto de Telecomunicações,
Portugal; Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung,
Denmark; QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies, Denmark; Hutchison3 G, U.K.
Funding: FP6 IST, European Commission
CReating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments (Network of Excellence on the
Application and Communication aspects of Wireless Sensor Networking) (CRUISE)
CoCooperating Organizations: 23 partners
Funding: FP6-NoE, European Commission
Mimicking Nature for Designing Robust Congestion Control Mechanisms in SelfOrganized Autonomous Decentralized Networks (MIND2C)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Pretoria, South Africa; Goldsmiths College;
University of London, U.K.
Next Generation IPv6 Research Network (ΝΕΤ6)
Cooperating Organizations: European University Cyprus, Cyprus; Netway Ltd, Cyprus
VIDEO Distribution in New-Generation Mobile Cellular Networks (GPRS/UMTS) (BINTEO)
Cooperating Organizations: CYTA, Cyprus; VAVEL NetMedia Ltd, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Giambene, G., Aguayo Torres, M. C., Monteiro, E., Ries, M., & Vassiliou, V. (Section Eds.). (2009). Packet
Scheduling and Congestion Control. In Y. Koucheryavy et. al. (Eds.), Traffic and QoS Management in
Wireless Multimedia Networks: COST 290 Final Report (pp. 13-88). Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
New York, U.S.A: Springer-Verlag.
Barcelo-Arroyo, F., Aguayo Torres, M. C., Al-Begain, K., Martin-Escalona, I., & Vassiliou, V. (Section Eds.)
(2009). Mobility Support. In Y. Koucheryavy et. al. (Eds.), Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless
Multimedia Networks: COST 290 Final Report (pp. 151-200). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, New
York, U.S.A.: Springer-Verlag.
Antoniou, V., Papadopoulou, V., Vassiliou, V., & Pitsillides, A. (2010). Cooperative User-Network
Interactions in Next Generation Communication Networks. Computer Networks Journal, 54(13),
2239-2255.
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Velez, F. J., Cabral, O., Merca, F., & Vassiliou, V. (2010). Service Characterization for Cost Benefit
Optimization of Enhanced UMTS. Telecommunication Systems Journal, 1-15.
doi: 10.1007/s11235-010-9383-2.
Vassiliou, V., & Zinonos, Z. (2009). An Analysis of the Handover Latency Components in Mobile IPv6.
Journal of Internet Engineering, 3(1), 230-240.
Zinonos, Z., & Vassiliou, V., (2010). Inter-Mobility Support in Controlled 6LoWPAN Networks, Proc.
Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networks (UbiCoNet 2010) in conjunction with GLOBECOM.
Miami, FL (CD-ROM).
Sergiou, C., & Vassiliou, V., (2010). Alternative Path Creation vs Data Rate Reduction for Congestion
Mitigation in Wireless Sensor Networks (Poster), Proc. 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information
Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2010). Stockholm, Sweden (CD-ROM).
Vassiliou, V., Pallares, J., Gonçalves, J., Van Der Kreeft, P., Ramati, N. (2009). Context-aware Media Delivery
Architecture, Proc. ICT Mobile Summit 2009. Santander, Spain (CD-ROM).
Christophorou, C., Pitsillides, A., & Vassiliou, V. (2008). An Enhanced Radio Resource Allocation Approach
for Efficient MBMS Service Provision in UTRAN, Proc. 19th Annual International Symposium on Personal
Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC2008). Cannes, France (CD-ROM).
ZEINALIPOUR DEMETRIS Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Cyprus, B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2000
University of California, Riverside, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2003
University of California, Riverside, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2005
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), International • Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International • Τhe Advanced Computing Systems
Association (USENIX), International
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Data Management in Systems and Networks: Distributed Query Processing; Storage and
Retrieval Methods for Sensor, Smartphone and Peer-to-Peer; Systems, Network and
Mobile Data Management
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Cooperating Objects Network Of Excellence (CONET)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Pisa, Italy; ETH, Switzerland; SICS, U.S.A.;
University of Cyprus, Cyprus; ISEP-IPP, Spain; SAP, International; SCHNEIDER, Cyprus;
AICIA, Spain; UPO, Spain; TI, U.S.A.
Funding: Information Communication Technologies FP7, European Commission
SEARCHing in a Networked world (SEARCHiN)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Manchester, U.K.;
Funding: Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK), Marie Curie
Actions, CORDIS, FP6, European Commission
Enhancing FailRank by Machine Learning Methods
Cooperating Organizations: Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Cyprus,
Cyprus; ICS/FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
Funding: EU CoreGRID Network of Excellence; Research Exchange Program (REP)
An Experimental Evaluation of the FailRank Grid Monitoring and Ranking System
Cooperating Organizations: Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany; Open University of Cyprus,
Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Funding: CoreGRID Network of Excellence Research Exchange Program (REP), European
Commission
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)
Cooprating Organizations: Several European Universities and Institutions
Funding: Information Society Technologies, FP6, European Commission
CoreGRID Network of Excellence
Cooprating Organizations: Network of Excellence among several European Universities
and Institutions
European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications
for Large Scale Distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies, FP6-IST
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Wojnarski, M., Gora, P., Szczuka, M., Nguyen, H. S., Swietlicka, J. & Zeinalipour-Yazti, D. (2010).
Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Contest (ICDM Contest 2010).
Australia, Sydney: IEEE Computer Society.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Wang-Chien, L. (2010). Proceedings of the 7th Intl. Workshop on Data
Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2010). The 7th International Workshop on Data Management
for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2010), in conjunction with VLDB, Singapore, ACM International Conference
Proceeding Series, ACM Press.
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Sakellariou, R., Orlando, S., Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Parthasarathy, S., & Zeinalipour-Yazti, D. (2010).
Proceedings of the 16th Intl. Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par 2010). The 16th International
Conference on Parallel Processing Ischia, Italy, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
6271, Springer Press.
Gibbons, P. B., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Hui Lei, Suman Nath (2010). Proceedings of the 9th ACM
International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2010). The 9th
ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2010), in
conjunction with SIGMOD / PODS, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: ACM Press.
Hara, T., Jensen, C. S., Kumar, V., Madria, S., & Zeinalipour-Yazti, D. (2010). Proceedings of the 11th Intl.
Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010). The 11th International Conference on Mobile
Data Management (MDM 2010), Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A.: IEEE Computer Society.
Kotidis, Y., Marron, P. J., Le Gruenwald, & Zeinalipour-Yazti, D. (2009). Proceedings of the 8th ACM
International Workshop of Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE 2009). 8th ACM
International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, (MobiDE 2009) on
conjuction with SIGMOD/PODS, (Eds.), Providence Rhode Island, U.S.A.: ACM Press.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Andrzejak, A., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2010). Improving the Dependability of
Computational Grids via Short-Term Failure Predictions. In F. Desprez, V. Getov, T. Priol, R. Yahyapour,
(Eds.), Grids, P2P and Services Computing (XIV, 202 p.). Heidelberg: Springer Press.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Chrysanthis, P. K. (2009). Mobile Sensor Network Data Management. In Liu, Ling,
Ozsu, M. Tamer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Database Systems (EBDS). (1st ed.), LXX, 3752 p. 60 illus.,
Heidelberg: Springer Press.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Neocleous, K., Georgiou, C., Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). FailRank: Towards a Unified Grid
Failure Monitoring and Ranking System. In M. Danelutto, P. Fragopoulou, & V. Getov Making (Eds.), Grids
Work, Heidelberg: Springer Press.
Lin, S., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Gunopulos, D. (2008). Top-K Retrieval Techniques in Distributed Sensor
Networks. In S. Shashi, & X. Hui (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Systems (EGIS).
Heidelberg: Springer Press.
Konstantinidis, A., Yang, K., Zhang, Q., & Zeinalipour-Yazti, D. (2010). A Multi-Objective Evolutionary
Algorithm for the Deployment and Power Assignment Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer
Networks (ComNet), 54(6), 960-976.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Vagena, Z., Gunopulos, D., & Kalogeraki, V., Tsotras, V., Vlachos, M., Koudas, N., &
Srivastava, D.(2009). Finding the K Highest-Ranked Answers in a Distributed Network. Computer
Networks (ComNet), 53(9), 1431-1449.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Papadakis, H., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). Metadata Ranking and
Pruning for Failure Detection in Grids. Parallel Processing Letters Journal (PPL), Special Issue on Grid
Architectural Issues: Scalability, Dependability, Adaptability, 18(3), 371-390.
Chatzimilioudis, G., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., & Gunopulos, D. (2010). Minimum-Hot-Spot Query Trees for
Wireless Sensor Networks, Ninth International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and
Mobile Access (MobiDE 2010) (pp. 33-40). Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: ACM Press.
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Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Andreou, M. I., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). Perimeter-Based
Data Replication and Aggregation in Mobile Sensor Networks, 10th International Conference on Mobile
Data Management (MDM 2009) (pp. 244-251). Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society.
Andreou, P., Pamboris, A., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). ETC: EnergyDriven Tree Construction in Wireless Sensor Networks, 10th International Conference on Mobile Data
Management (MDM 2009) (pp. 513-518). Taipei, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society.
Andreou, P., Spanos, O., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). FSort: External
Sorting on Flash-based Sensor Devices, 6th Intl. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks
“DMSN” (VLDB 2009) (pp. 28-34). Lyon, Paris: ACM Press.
Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Vasiliadou, M., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2009). KSpot: Effectively
Monitoring the K Most Important Events in a Wireless Sensor Network, 25th International Conference
on Data Engineering March (ICDE 2009) (pp. 1503-1506). Shanghai, China: IEEE Computer Society.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Neocleous, K., Georgiou, C., & Dikaiakos, M. D. (2008). Identifying Failures in Grids
through Monitoring and Ranking, The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and
Applications (NCA 2008) (pp. 291-298). Cambridge, MA U.S.A.: IEEE Computer Society.
Andreou, P., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Chrysanthis, P. K., & Samaras, G. (2008). Workload-aware Optimization
of Query Routing Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks, 9th International Conference on Mobile Data
Management (MDM 2008) (pp. 189-196). Beijing, China: IEEE Computer Society.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Vagena, Z., Gunopulos, D., Kalogeraki, V., Tsotras, V., Vlachos, M., Koudas, N., & D.
Srivastava (2009). 'Finding the K Highest-Ranked Answers in a Distributed Network. Computer Networks
(ComNet), 53(9), 1431-1449.
Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Kalogeraki, V., & Gunopulos, D. (2007). pFusion: An Architecture for Internet-Scale
Content-Based Search and Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),
18(6), 804-817.
Lin, S., Zeinalipour-Yazti, D., Kalogeraki, V., Gunopulos, D., & Najjar, W. (2006). Efficient Indexing Data
Structures for Flash-Based Sensor Devices. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2(4), 468 - 503.
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ACADEMIC STAFF
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Tasos C. Christofides
Christos A. Pallikaros
Professor
Associate Professor
Cleopatra C. Christoforou
Efstathios G. Paparoditis
Lecturer
Professor
Pantelis A. Damianou
Evangelia Samiou
Professor
Assistant Professor
Konstantinos Fokianos
Theofanis Sapatinas
Associate Professor
Professor
Georgios C. Georgiou
Yiorgos-Sokratis Smyrlis
Professor
Professor
Andreas Karageorghis
Christodoulos Sophocleous
Professor
Professor
Alexandros Karagrigoriou
Nikos Stylianopoulos
Associate Professor
Professor
Stamatis Koumandos
Nikos Tziolas
Professor
Assistant Professor
George Kyriazis
Alekos Vidras
Associate Professor
Professor
Emmanouil Milakis
Christos Xenophontos
Lecturer
Associate Professor
Department of Mathema%cs and Sta%s%cs
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics (MAS) carries out important research activity in
a wide range of Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Members of the
Department of MAS cooperate and participate in research programmes with other Universities
and Research Centres. Beyond the academic arena, the Department of MAS has research
partnerships with public and private organizations in Cyprus and abroad. Its research output is
of high quality, published in top journals.
The quality and quantity of publications compares favourable with that of respected related
departments of overseas competitive Universities. The research record of the Department of
MAS proves that the faculty, in addition to teaching and administration, are active members in
research and in the advancement of the Mathematics Sciences. An important development in
the last years is the further involvement of graduate students in seminars, publications and,
above all, in original research.
The ongoing research activities of the Department of MAS cover various areas of Mathematics,
such as Algebra, Geometry, Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Analysis, and Probability
and Statistics.
The Department of MAS has developed activities in numerous areas, some of which extend
beyond the traditional areas of mathematics research, for example:
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Computational Oceanography
Biomedicine
Modecular Genetics
Short-Term Load Forecasting
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TASOS C. CHRISTOFIDES Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1983
The Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A., M.S.E. in Mathematical Sciences, 1985
The Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, 1987
Cyprus Mathematical Society, Cyprus • Greek Statistical Institute, Greece • American
Statistical Association, U.S.A. • American Mathematical Society, U.S.A. • Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A. • Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and
Probability, The Netherlands
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Probability Inequalities; U-Statistics; Sampling; Associated Random Variables; Stochastic
Orders
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Taylor and
Francis • Communications in Statistics-Computation and Simulation (Associate Editor),
U.S.A., Taylor and Francis • Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Associate Editor),
U.S.A., Grace Scientific Publishing
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Cacoullos, T., Moschona, T., Moysiades, X., Papaioannou, T., & Christofides, T. (2009). Dictionary of
Statistical Terminology. Αthens: Greek Statistical Institute (in Greek).
Christofides, T. C., & Hadjikyriakou, M. (2010). Maximal Inequalities for Multidimensionally Indexed
Demimartingales and the Hajek-Renyi Inequality for Associated Random Variables. The Australian
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 7(2), 1-9.
Christofides, T. C. (2010). Comments on a Method of Comparison of Randomized Response Techniques.
Journal of Statistical Planning Inference, 140, 574-575.
Chaudhuri, A., Christofides, T. C., & Saha, A. (2009). Protection of Privacy in Efficient Application of
Randomized Response Techniques. Statistical Methods and Applications, 18, 389-418.
Christofides, T. C. (2009). Randomized Response without a Randomization Device. Advances and
Applications in Statistics, 11, 15-28.
Christofides, T. C., & Vaggelatou, E. (2009). Bounds for the Distance between the Distributions of the
Sums of Absolutely Continuous i.i.d. Convex-Ordered Random Variables with Applications. Journal of
Applied Probaility, 46, 255-271.
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Loizidou, E., Zeinalipour, Y. D., Christofides, T., & Kostrikis, L. G. (2009). Analysis of Binding Parameters of
HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors: Correlates of Drug Inhibition and Resistance. Bioorganic and Medicinal
Chemistry, 17, 4806-4818.
Christofides, T. C., & Hadjikyriakou, M. (2009). Exponential Inequalities for N-demimartingales and
Negatively Associated Random Variables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 2060-2065.
Chaudhuri, A., & Christofides, T. C. (2008). Indirect Questioning: How to Rival Randomized Response
Techniques? International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 43, 283-294.
Hadjikyriakou, M., & Christofides, T. C. (2010). Large Deviation Inequalities and Related Results for Ndemimartingales and Negatively Associated Random Variables, Proceedings of the 23rd Panhellenic
Conference of the Greek Statistical Institute (pp. 405-411). Greece.
CLEOPATRA C. CHRISTOFOROU Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Cyprus, Cyprus, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2000
Brown University, U.S.A, M.Sc. in Mathematics, 2002
Brown University, U.S.A, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 2004
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), U.S.A. (Member) • American
Mathematical Society, U.S.A. (Member)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Partial Differential Equations and Applied Analysis; Continuum Mechanics and
Hyperbolic Conservation Laws; Vanishing Viscosity Limits and Formation of Shock Waves
PUBLICATIONS
Christoforou, C., & Trivisa, K. (2009). Sharp decay estimates for hyperbolic balance laws. Journal of
Differential Equations, 247(2), 401-423.
Chen, G. Q., Christoforou, C., & Zhang, Y. (2008). Continuous dependence of entropy solutions to the
Euler equations on the adiabatic exponent and Mach number. Archive for Rational Mechanics and
Analysis, 189(1), 97–130.
Chen, J., Christoforou, C., & Jegdic, K. (2009). Rarefaction wave interaction for the unsteady transonic
small disturbance equations, Proceedings of The 15th American Conference on Applied Mathematics
(pp. 211-216). Downtown, Houston, TX: University of Houston.
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Christoforou, C. (2009). A Survey on the L^1 comparison of entropy weak solutions to Euler equations in
the large with respect to physical parameters, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications (HYP2008) (pp. 227-242). Maryland, U.S.A.
Christoforou, C. (2008). The initial-boundary Riemann problem and the time-variant vanishing viscosity
method, Workshop Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Oberwolfach, Report 56/2008, Germany.
Christoforou, C. (2008). Non-local conservation laws with memory, Proceedings of the 11th Conference
on Hyperbolic Problems (HYP2006) (pp. 381-388). Lyon, France.
PANTELIS A. DAMIANOU Professor
STUDIES
University of New Hamphshire, U.S.A., B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1977
UCLA, U.S.A., M.A. in Mathematics, 1980
University of Arizona, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1989
American Mathematical Society, U.S.A. • Mathematical Association of America, U.S.A. •
IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems, U.S.A. • Cyprus Mathematical
Society, Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Integrable Systems; Poisson Manifolds; Lie Groups; Number Theory
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Bulletin of the Greek Mathematical Society (Advisory Committee), Greece, HMS • Regular
and Chaotic Dynamics (Editor), Springer-Verlag • Oriental Journal of Mathematics (Editor),
India, Oriental Academic Publishers • ISRN Algebra (Editor), U.S.A., Hindawi Publishing
Corporation • Advances in Pure Mathematics, U.S.A., Scientific Research Publishing
Pure Mathematics
Minimal Orbits and Toda Systems (MIN-TODA)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Poitiers, France
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Darboux polynomials and Integrable Systems (SOLSYXE)
Intelligent Bus Systems on Archagelos Avenue (ARCHAGELOS)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Pantelis, D. (2010). Elementary Number Theory. Lecture Notes: Kantzilaris.
Papageorgiou, G., Damianou, P., Pitsillides, A., Aphamis, T., Charalambous, D., & Ioannou, P. (2009).
Modelling and simulation of transportation systems: A scenario planning approach. AUTOMATIKAJournal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications, 50(1-2), 39-50.
Christodoulides, Y., & Damianou, P. A. (2009). Darboux polynomials for Lotka-Volterra systems in three
dimensions. Journal of Non-linear Mathematical Physics, 16(3), 339-354.
Damianou, P. A., & Fernandes, R. L. (2008). Integrable hierarchies and the modular class. Annales de
l'Institute Fourier, 58(1), 107-137.
Damianou, P. A. (2008). Reduction and Realization in Toda and Volterra. Regular and Chaotic Dynamics,
13(6), 572-587.
Damianou, P. A., Sabourin, H., & Vanhaecke, P. (2008). Transverse Poisson structures: The subregular and
minimal orbits, Differential Geometry and its applications, Proceedings of the 10th International
Conference on DGA2007 (pp. 419-431). Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Damianou, P. A., Sabourin, H., & Vanhaecke, P. (2008). Nilpotent Orbits in Simple Lie Algebras and their
Transverse Poisson Structures, Geometry and Physics: XVI International Fall Workshop 1023
(pp. 148-152). Lisbon, Portugal.
Papageorgiou, G., Damianou, P., Katsikides, S., & Kakas, A. (2008). Planning for Sustainable World
Development: a System Dynamics Approach, Proceedings of the 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics
and Systems Research 2 (pp. 659-665). Vienna, Austria.
Damianou, P. A.(1996). Transverse Poisson structures of coadjoint orbits. Bulletin des Sciences
Mathematiques, 120, 195-214.
Damianou, P. A.(1994). Multiple Hamiltonian structures for Toda-type systems. Journal of Mathematical
Physics, 35, 5511-5541.
Damianou, P. A.(1990). Master symmetries and R-matrices for the Toda Lattice. Letters in Mathematical
Physics, 20, 101-112.
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KONSTANTINOS FOKIANOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Ioannina, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1991
University of Maryland, U.S.A., M.A. in Statistics, 1993
University of Maryland, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Statistics, 1996
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), U.S.A. • International Statistical Institute (ISI),
The Netherlands (Elected Member) • American Statistical Association (ASA), U.S.A. •
International Biometric Society (IBS), U.S.A. • Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A. •
International Biometric Society-Eastern Mediterranean Region, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Time Series; Semiparametric Models; Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis; Biostatistics;
Bioinformatics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Elsevier • Statistics &
Probability Letters Associate (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Elsevier • Journal of Environmental
Statistics (Associate Editor), U.S.A., UCLA
Mitigating the Impact of Estimation Errors in Portfolio Optimization
Regression Models for Integer Valued Time Series
Cooperating Organizations: University of Dortmund, Germany; University of Bergen,
Norway
Applied Neuroscience and Neurobehavioral, Research Center (ANNRC)
Ergodicity and Inference for Loglinear Poisson Autoregressions
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PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Fokianos, K. (2010). Penalized Estimation for Integer Autoregressive Models.In T. Kneib, & G. Tutz (Eds.)
Statistical Modeling and Regression Structures--Festschrift in Honor of Ludwig Fahrmeir (pp. 337-352).
Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.
Ioannou, A., Fokianos, K., & Promponas, V. J. (2010). Spectral Density Ratio Based Clustering Methods for
the Binary Segmentation of Protein Sequences: a Comparative Study. Biosystems, 100, 132-143.
Fokianos, K., & Fried, R. (2010). Interventions in INGARCH models. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 31,
210-225.
Davidov, O., Fokianos, K., & Iliopoulos, G. (2010). Order Restricted Semiparametric Inference for the
Power Bias Model. Biometrics, 66, 549-557.
Konis, K., & Fokianos, K. (2009). Safe Density Ratio Modeling. Statistics & Probability Letters, 79, 1915-1920.
Savvides, A., Promponas, V., & Fokianos, K. (2008). Clustering of Biological Time Series by Cepstral
Coefficients Based Distances. Pattern Recognition, 41, 2398-2412.
Fokianos, Κ. (2008). Comparing two samples by penalized logistic regression. Electronic Journal of
Statistics, 2, 564-580.
Fokianos, Κ., & Savvides, Α. (2008). On Comparing Several Spectral Densities. Technometrics, 50, 317-331.
Fried, R., Agueshop, I., Bornkamp, B., Fokianos, K., & Ickstadt, K. (2010). Detection of Outliers and
Interventions, in INGARCH Time Series, Proceedings of the Ninth Valencia International Meeting on
Bayesian Statistics. Valencia (CD-ROM).
Fokianos, K., Rahbek, A., & Tjøstheim, D., (2008). Ergodicity and Inference for a Count Time Series Model,
Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Applied Probability, University of Tecnology of
Compiègne. France (CD-ROM).
GEORGIOS C. GEORGIOU Professor
STUDIES
National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Diploma in Chemical Engineering, 1985
University of Michigan, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, 1986
University of Michigan, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, 1989
Hellenic Society of Rheology (HSR), Greece • Greek Association of Computational
Mechanics (GRACM), Greece • Society of Rheology, U.S.A. • Society of Industrial and
Applied Mathematics (SIAM), U.S.A. • International Association of Computational
Mechanics (IACM), U.S.A. • Cyprus Mathematical Society, Cyprus
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computational Rheology; Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations;
Computational Oceanography
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, Russia, Academic Periodical Press • International
Journal of Applied Mathematical Sciences, India, GBS Publishers and Distributors •
Mediterranean Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Cyprus, Cyprus
Mathematical Society • ISRN Applied Mathematics, India, Hindawi Publishing Corporation
• The Open Numerical Methods Journal, U.S.A., Bentham Science Publisher
A Pan European Infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management (SEADATANET)
Cooperating Organization: Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, Ministry of
Agriculture, Cyprus
Development of the Integrated Parallel Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting System
(PARALLELCYP)
Cooperating Organizations: University of Athens, Greece; EXA High Performance
Computing, Cyprus
Influence of volume expanders on fluidity of blood through arteries and other blood
vessels (HEMODEL1)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Flow of model body fluids and blood in arteries and other blood vessels (HEMODEL)
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Underwater Autonomous Units Recording Sea Parameters (YPOKINOYMODA)
Cooperating Organization: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Mitsoulis, E., & Georgiou, G. (2009). Proceedings of the Polymer Processing Society Europe/Africa
Regional Meeting. Larnaca (CD-ROM).
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Elliotis, M., Christodoulou, E., & Georgiou, G., & Xenophontos, C. (2010). The singular function boundary
integral method for a 3-D Laplacian problem with an edge singularity. In E. J. Sapountzakis (Ed.), Recent
Developments in Boundary Element Methods (A volume to honour John T. Katsikadelis’) (pp. 31-42).
Southampton: WIT Press.
Christodoulou, E., Xenophontos, C., & Georgiou, G. (2009). The singular function boundary integral
method for elliptic problems with boundary singularities. In G. D. Manolis, & D. Polyzos (Eds.), Recent
Advances in Boundary Element Methods (A Volume to Honor Professor Dimitri Beskos) (pp. 43-56). The
Netherlands: Springer.
Muravleva, L., Muravleva, E., Georgiou, G. C., & Mitsoulis, E. (2010). Unsteady circular flow of a Bingham
plastic with the augmented Lagrangian method. Rheological Acta, 49, 1197-1206.
Christodoulou, E. C., Xenophontos, C., & Georgiou, G .C. (2010). The Singular Function Boundary Integral
Method for singular Laplacian problems over circular sectors. Applied Mathematics and Computation,
217, 2773-2787.
Joseph, S. R., Joseph, L. M., & Georgiou, G.C. (2010). Perturbation solution of compressible annular
Poiseuille flow of a viscous fluid. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech, 165, 676-680.
Muravleva, L., Muravleva, E., Georgiou, G.C., Mitsoulis, E. (2010). Numerical simulations of cessation flows
of a Bingham plastic with the Augmented Lagrangian Method. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid
Mechanics, 165, 544-550.
Taliadorou, E., Neophytou, M., & Georgiou, G. (2009). Perturbation solutions of Poiseuille flows of weakly
compressible Newtonian liquids. Journal of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 163, 25-34.
Alexandrou, A. N., Constantinou, N., & Georgiou, G. C. (2009). Shear rejuvenation, aging and shear
banding in yield stress fluids. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 158, 6-17.
Moulitsas, I., & Georgiou, G. C. (2009). Steady flow of a two-dimensional liquid curtain under pressure.
Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 3, 271-276.
Kavousanakis, M. E., Russo, L., Siettos, C .I., Boudouvis, A. G., & Georgiou, G. C. (2008). A timestepper
approach for the systematic bifurcation and stability analysis of polymer extrusion dynamics. Journal of
Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics,151, 59-68.
Zodiatis, G., Lardner, R., Hayes, D. R., Georgiou, G., Sofianos, S., Skliris, N., & Lascaratos, A. A., (2008).
Operational ocean forecasting in the Eastern Mediterranean: implementation and evaluation. Ocean
Science, 4, 31-47.
Taliadorou, E., Georgiou, G., & Mitsoulis, E. (2008). Numerical simulation of the extrusion of strongly
compressible Newtonian liquids. Rheological Acta 47, 49-62.
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ANDREAS KARAGEORGHIS Professor
STUDIES
Oxford University, U.K., B.A. in Mathematics, 1981
Oxford University, U.K., M.A. in Mathematics, 1985
Oxford University, U.K., D.Phil. in Mathematics, 1985
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, U.K. (Fellow) • Canadian Applied
Mathematics Society, Canada • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Numerical Solution of Differential Equations; Scientific Computing; Inverse Problems
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements (Member of Editorial Board), The
Netherlands, Elsevier • Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Associate Editor),
Hong-Kong, Global Science Press
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Chen, C. S., Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y. S. (2008). The Method of Fundamental Solutions - A Meshless
Method. Atlanta: Dynamic Publishers, Inc.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y. S. (2009). Matrix decomposition algorithms related to the MFS for
axisymmetric problems. In G. D. Manolis and D. Polyzos (Eds.), Recent Advances in Boundary Element
Methods (pp. 223-237). New York: Springer.
Karageorghis, A., & Lesnic, D. (2010). The pressure-streamfunction MFS formulation for the detection of
an obstacle immersed in a two-dimensional Stokes flow. Advances in Applied Mathematics and
Mechanics, 2, 183-199.
Smyrlis, Y. S., & Karageorghis, A. (2010). The under--determined version of the MFS: Taking more sources
than collocation points. Applied Numerical Mathematics, 60, 337-357.
Karageorghis, A (2010). Efficient Kansa-type MFS algorithm for elliptic problems. Numerical Algorithms,
54, 261-278.
Karageorghis, A., & Lesnic, D. (2010). The method of fundamental solutions for the inverse conductivity
problem. Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 18, 567-583.
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Bialecki, B., & Karageorghis, A. (2010). Spectral Chebyshev collocation for the Poisson and biharmonic
equations. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 32, 2995-3019.
Smyrlis, Y. S., & Karageorghis, A. (2009). Efficient implementation of the MFS: The three scenarios.
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 227, 83-92.
Karageorghis, A. (2009). Efficient MFS algorithms in regular polygonal domains. Numerical Algorithms,
50, 215-240.
Karageorghis, A. (2009). A practical algorithm for determining the optimal pseudo-boundary in the MFS.
Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 1, 510-528.
Karageorghis, A., & Lesnic, D. (2009). Detection of cavities using the method of fundamental solutions.
Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 17, 803-820.
Karageorghis, A., Chen, C. S., & Smyrlis, Y. S. (2009). Matrix decomposition RBF algorithm for solving 3d
elliptic problems. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 33, 1368-1373.
ALEX KARAGRIGORIOU Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Patras, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1984
University of Maryland, U.S.A., M.A. in Mathematical Statistics, 1988
University of Maryland, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics, 1992
American Statistical Association, U.S.A. • Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A. •
Hellenic Statistical Institute, Greece
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Measures of Divergence; Model Selection Criteria; Statistical Modelling; Medical Statistics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Statistical Periscope e-News Bulletin (Editor), Greece, Greek Statistical Institute •
International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics (IJCEE) (Editorial
Board Member), U.K., Interscience Publishers • EMR-IBS Bulletin, electronic news bulletin
(Editor), Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometrics Scociety
ΟΥΡΟΚΟΝΙΟΣ Male Urogenital Cancer and its Relation to the Human Pappiloma Virus
(HPV)
Cooperating Organizations: Mendel Center for Biomedical Sciences, Cyprus Urological
Association, Cyprus; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Karagrigoriou, A., Mattheou, K., & Panayiotou, P. (2010). On generalized tests of fit for multinomial
populations. In V. V. Rykov, N. Balakrishnan, & M. Nikulin (Eds.), Mathematical and Statistical Models and
Methods in Reliability (pp. 243-254). Boston: Birkhauser.
Vonta, F., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2010). Information measures in biostatistics and reliability. In V. V. Rykov, N.
Balakrishnan, & M. Nikulin (Eds.), Mathematical and Statistical Models and Methods in Reliability (pp.
401-413). Boston: Birkhauser.
Karagrigoriou, A., & Mattheou, K. (2009). Μeasures of divergence in model selection. In, C. H. Skiadas,
(Ed.), Advances in Data Analysis: Theory and Applications to Reliability and Inference, Data Mining,
Bioinformatics, Lifetime Data and Neural Networks (pp. 51-65). Boston: Birkhauser.
Karagrigoriou, A., & Papaioannou, T. (2008). On measures of information and divergence and model
selection criteria. In Vonta, Nikulin, Limnios, Huber, (Eds.), Statistical Models and Methods for Biomedical
and Technical Systems (pp. 503-518). Boston: Birkhauser, Springer Verlag.
Mantalos, P., Mattheou, K., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2010). Forecasting ARMA Models: A comparative study of
information criteria focusing on MDIC. J. Statist. Comput. and Simul., 80(1), 61-73.
Mattheou, K., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2010). A new family of divergence measures for tests of fit. Austr. and
N. Zealand J. of Statist., 52(2), 187-200.
Karagrigoriou, A., Koukouvinos, C., & Mylona, K. (2010). On the advantages of the nonconcave penalized
likelihood model selection method with minimum prediction errors in large scale medical studies. J.
Applied Statist., 37(1), 13-24.
Vonta, F., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2010). Generalized measures of divergence in survival analysis and
reliability. J. of Applied Prob., 47(1), 216-234.
Mantalos, P., Mattheou, K., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2010). An Improved Divergence Information Criterion for
the Determination of the Order of an AR Process. Comm. In Statist. – Comput. Simul., 39(5), 865-879.
Mattheou, K., Lee, S., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2009). A model selection criterion based on the BHHJ measure
of divergence. J. Statist. Plan. Infer., 139, 128-135.
Petrides, M., Mattheou, K., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2009). Determinants of Mortgage indebtedness in the
Cyprus household sector: Evidence from the Cyprus survey of consumer finances. Journal of Money
Investment and Banking, 9, 5-18.
Mattheou, K., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2009). On new developments in divergence statistics, Zapiski
Nauchnuch Seminarov POMI. Steklov Mathematical Institute, 363, 48-65 and reprint, J. of Mathematical
Sciences, 2009, 163(3), 227-237.
Xenophontos, S., Hadjivassiliou, M., Karagrigoriou, A., Demetriou, N., Miltiadous, G., Marcou, I., Elisaf, M.,
Mikhailidis, D. P., & Cariolou, M. A. (2008). Low HDL cholesterol, smoking and IL-13 R130Q polymorphism
are associated with myocardial infarction in Greek Cypriot males. A pilot study. Open Cardiovascular
Medicine Journal, 2, 52-59.
Koutrouvelis, I., & Karagrigoriou, A. (2009). Gof tests for the Inverse Gaussian Distribution, Proc.
MMR2009 – Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Theory, Methods, Applications (pp. 337-340).
Moscow: Russian University Press.
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STAMATIS KOUMANDOS Professor
STUDIES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1985
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1991
American Mathematical Society, U.S.A. • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM), U.S.A. • SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions,
U.S.A. • European Mathematical Society, Germany • Greek Mathematical Society, Greece •
Cyprus Mathematical Society, Cyprus • Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities and
Applications, Australia • Harmonic Analysis, IHP Network, France.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Fourier Analysis; Orthogonal Polynomials - Special Functions; Approximation Theory;
Harmonic Analysis; Analytic Number Theory; Geometric Function Theory
EDITORIAL BOARDS
International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematical Sciences, (Member), India, GBS
Publishers and Distributors • Global Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
(Member), India, GBS Publishers and Distributors • Australian Journal of Mathematical
Analysis and Applications (Member), Australia, University of Victoria, Melbourne • Journal
of Mathematical Inequalities (Member), Croatia, University of Zagreb • Journal of
Mathematical Analysis (Member), SerbiaDepartment of Mathematics and Computer
ScienceUniversity of Prishtine • Journal of Classical Analysis (JCA) (Member), Croatia,
University of Zagreb
Inequalities for Special Functions and Applications to Geometric Function Theory and
Related Fields
Funding: Leventis Foundation
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Koumandos, S. (2010). Positive trigonometric sums and starlike functions, Approximation and
Computation, Springer Optimization and its Applications, 42, 157-182.
Koumandos, S. (2008). Monotonicity of the mean value function of normalized Bessel functions of first
kind, Advances in Inequalities for Special Functions (pp. 70-85). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc..
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Koumandos, S., Nestoridis, V., Smyrlis, Y.-S. & Stefanopoulos, V. (2010). Universal series in
$\cap_{p>1}\ell^{p}$. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 42, 119-129.
Koumandos, S., & Lamprecht, M. (2010). On a conjecture for trigonometric sums and starlike functions II.
Journal of Approximation Theory, 162(5), 1068-1084.
Koumandos, S., & Lamprecht, M. (2010). Some completely monotonic functions of positive order.
Mathematics of Computation, 79(271), 1697-1707.
Alzer, H., Koumandos, S., & Lamprecht, M. (2010). A refinement of Vietoris' inequality for sine
polynomials. Mathematische Nachrichten, 283(11), 1549-1557.
Koumandos, S., & Pedersen, H. L. (2009). Completely monotonic functions of positive order and
asymptotic expansions of the logarithm of Barnes double gamma function and Euler's gamma function.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 355(1), 33-40.
Koumandos, S. & Pedersen, H. L. (2009). On the asymptotic expansion of the logarithm of Barnes triple
gamma function. Mathematica Scandinavica, 105(2), 287-306.
Alzer, H. & Koumandos, S. (2009). Remarks on a sine polynomial. Archiv der Mathematik 93(5), 475-479.
Alzer, H. & Koumandos, S. (2008). On the partial sums of a Fourier series. Constructive Approximation,
27(3), 253-268.
Koumandos, S. (2008). On Ruijsenaars' asymptotic expansion of the logarithm of the double gamma
function, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 341(2), 1125-1132.
Koumandos, S. (2008). Monotonicity of some functions involving the gamma and psi functions.
Mathematics of Computation, 77(264), 2261-2275.
GEORGE KYRIAZIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Ioannina, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1986
University of South Carolina, U.S.A., Ph.D., 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Approximation Theory; Harmonic Analysis; Related topics of Classical Analysis including
the Study of Decomposition Systems on Various Spaces of Functions
Decomposition of Weighted Smoothness spaces and Applications
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PUBLICATIONS
Kyriazis, G., Kerkyacharian, G., Le Pennec, E., Petrushev, P., Picard, D. (2010). Inversion of noisy Radon
transform by SVD based needletes. Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. 28(1), 24-55.
Kyriazis, G., & Petrushev, P. (2009). On the construction of frames for spaces of distributions. J. of
Functional Analysis 257(7), 2159-2187.
Kyriazis, G., Petrushev, P., & Xu, Y. (2008). Jacobi decomposition of weighted Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov
spaces. Studia Math. 186(2), 161-202.
Kyriazis, G., Petrushev, P., & Xu, Y. (2008). Decomposition of weighted Triebel-Lizorkin and Besov spaces
on the ball. Proc. London Math. Soc. 97(2), 477-513.
EMMANOUIL MILAKIS Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Crete, B.Sc. ,1999
University of Crete, , M.Sc., 2001
University of Crete, Ph.D., 2006
American Mathematical Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Partial Differential Equations; Free Boundary Problems; Geometric Measure Theory
Internal Funding Budgets 3/311 and ΜΑΣ/Γ14.2
Marie Curie International Reintegration Grants
Summer 2009 Collaborator
Funding: National Science Foundation, U.S.A.
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PUBLICATIONS
Milakis, E., & Lemenant, A. (2010). Quantitative stability for the first Dirichlet eigenvalue in Reifenberg
flat domains in $\mathbb{R}^N$. J. Math. Anal. Appl., 522-533.
Milakis, E., & Toro, T. (2010). Divergence form operators in Reifenberg flat domains. Mathematische
Zeitschrift, 264(1), 15-41.
Milakis, E. (2010). Fully nonlinear phase transition problems with flat free boundaries. Differential
Integral Equations, 23(1-2), 93-112.
Milakis, E., Silvestre, L. (2008). Regularity for the nonlinear Signorini problem. Advances in Math, 217,
1301-1312.
CHRISTOS A. PALLIKAROS Assοciate Professor
STUDIES
Imperial College, London, U.K., B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1988
Stanford University, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Mathematics, 1990
Imperial College, U.K., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1993
American Mathematical Society, U.S.A. • London Mathematical Society, U.K.
• Cyprus Mathematical Society, Cyprus
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Group Representation Theory; Algebraic Combinatorics
PUBLICATIONS
Deriziotis, D., McDonough, T., & Pallikaros, C. (2010). On root subsystems and involutions in S_n.
Glasgow Math. J., 52, 357-369.
Geck, M., Iancu, L., & Pallikaros, C. (2008). Specht modules and Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in type B_n. Journal
of Pure and Applied Algebra, 212(6), 1310-1320.
McDonough, T., & Pallikaros, C. (2008). On subsequences and certain elements which determine various
cells. S_n. Journal of Algebra, 319(3), 1249-1263.
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EFSTATHIOS G. PAPARODITIS Professor
STUDIES
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Diploma in Mathematical Economics, 1985
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Ph.D. in Statistics, 1990
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A. • Bernoulli Society, The Netherlands •
International Statistical Institute, International
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Time Series Analysis; Nonparametric Statistics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Taylor and Francis • Journal
of Time Series Econometrics (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Berkeley Electronic Press • Metrika
(Associate Editor), Germany, Springer-Verlag
Short Term Load Prediction Using Nonparametric Functional Time Series Methods
Funding: Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC)
PUBLICATIONS
Berg, A., Paparoditis, E., & Politis, D. N. (2010). A Bootstrap test for time series linearity. Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference, 140, 3841-3857.
Paparoditis, E. (2010). Validating stationarity assumptions in time series analysis by rolling local
periodograms. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 839-851.
Paparoditis, E. (2009). Testing temporal constancy of the spectral structure of a time series. Bernoulli, 15,
1190-1221.
Sergides, M., & Paparoditis, E. (2009). Frequency domain tests of semiparametric hypotheses for locally
stationary processes. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 36, 800-821.
Dette, H., & Paparoditis, E. (2009). Bootstrapping frequency domain tests in multivariate time series with
an application to comparing spectral densities. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 71,
831-857.
Antoniadis, A., Paparoditis, E., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Bandwidth selection for functional time series
prediction. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 733-740.
Neumann, M. H., & Paparoditis, E. (2008). Simultaneous Confidence Bands in Spectral Density
Estimation. Biometrika, 95, 381-397.
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Sergides, M., & Paparoditis, E. (2008). Bootstrapping the Local Periodogram of Locally Stationary
Processes. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 29, 264-299.
Neumann, M. H., & Paparoditis, E. (2008). Goodness-Fit Tests for Markovian Time Series Models.
Bernoulli, 14, 14-46.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Paparoditis, E., & Politis, D. N. (2009). Resampling and Subsampling for Financial Time Series, Handbook
of Financial Time Series (pp. 983-999). New York: Springer-Verlag.
EVANGELIA SAMIOU Assistant Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, Degree in Mathematics, 1990
University of Augsburg, Germany, Dr. rer. nat. in Mathematics, 1997
London Mathematical Society ( LMS), U.K. • American Mathematical Society (AMS), U.S.A.
• Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Differential Geometry (Riemannian Geometry)
PUBLICATIONS
Peyerimhoff, N., Samiou, E. (2010). Spherical spectral synthesis and two-radius theorems on Damek-Ricci
spaces. Ark. Mat. 48(1), 131-147.
Kollross, A., & Samiou, E. (2005). Homogeneous spaces with sections. Manuscripta Math., 116(2),
115-123.
Console, S., Fino, A., & Samiou, E. (2005). The moduli space of six-dimensional two-step nilpotent Lie
algebras. Ann. Global Anal. Geom., 27(1), 17-32.
Samiou, E. (2000). Flats and symmetry of homogeneous spaces. Math. Z. 234(1), 145-162.
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THEOFANIS SAPATINAS Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1989
University of Sheffield, U.K., M.Sc. in Statistics, 1991
University of Sheffield, U.K., Ph.D. in Statistics, 1994
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A. • Bernoulli Society, Netherlands
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Non-parametric and Semi-parametric Volatility Estimation; Functional Time Series
Prediction; Functional Mixed-Effects Models; Nonparametric Curve Estimation and
Related Problems; Wavelets in Statistics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Annals of Statistics (Associate Editor), U.S.A., Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Short Term Load Prediction Using Nonparametric Functional Time Series Methods
Funding: Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC)
Cluster Analysis of Daily Total Generation Data
Funding: Cyprus Transmission System Operator (TSO Cyprus)
PUBLICATIONS
Pensky, M., & Sapatinas, T. (2010). On convergence rates equivalency and sampling strategies in
functional deconvolution models. Annals of Statistics, 38, 1793-1844.
Abramovich, F., Grinshtein, V., Petsa, A., & Sapatinas, T. (2010). On Bayesian testimation and its
applications to wavelet thresholding. Biometrika, 97, 181-198.
Sapatinas, T., & Shanbhag, D. N. (2010). Moment properties of multivariate infinitely divisible laws and
criteria for multivariate self-decomposability. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 101, 500-511.
Petsa, A., & Sapatinas, T. (2010). Adaptive quadratic functional estimation of a weighted density by
model selection. Statistics, 44, 571-585.
Ingster, Yu. I., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Minimax goodness-of-fit testing in multivariate nonparametric
regression. Mathematical Methods of Statistics, 18, 241-269.
Bochkina, N., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Minimax rates of convergence and optimality of Bayes factor
wavelet regression estimators under pointwise risks. Statistica Sinica, 19, 1389-1406.
Abramovich, F., De Feis, I., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Optimal testing for additivity in multiple nonparametric
regression. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 61, 691-714.
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Antoniadis, A., Paparoditis, E., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Bandwidth selection for functional time series
prediction. Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 733-740.
Pensky, M., & Sapatinas, T. (2009). Functional deconvolution in a periodic setting: uniform case. Annals
of Statistics, 37, 73-104.
Fryzlewicz, P., Sapatinas, T., & Subba Rao, S. (2008). Normalised least-squares estimation in time-varying
ARCH models. Annals of Statistics, 36, 742-786.
YIORGOS-SOKRATIS SMYRLIS Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.S. in Mathematics, 1984
Courant Institute, New York University, U.S.A., M.S. in Mathematics, 1986
Courant Institute, New York University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1989
American Mathematical Society (AMS) • Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Partial Differential Equations; Numerical Analysis; Functional Analysis; Fluid Dynamics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Cyprus University Publications (Editor), Cyprus, University of Cyprus
Analysis and Computations of Evolution Partial Differential Equations in Two- and ThreeDimensional Interfacial Hydrodynamics
Analysis and Computations of Evolution Partial Differential Equations in Two- and ThreeDimensional Interfacial Hydrodynamics
Cooperating Organization: Imperial College, London, U.K.
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y.-S., (2009). Matrix decomposition algorithms related to the MFS for
axisymmetric problems. In G. D. Malonis, & D. Polyzos (Eds.), Recent advances in boundary element
methods (pp. 223–237). New York: Springer.
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Smyrlis, Y.-S., & Karageorghis, A. (2010). The under-determined version of the MFS: taking more sources
than collocation points. Appl. Numer. Math., 60(4), 337–357.
Koumandos, S., Nestoridis, V., Smyrlis, Y.-S., & Stefanopoulos, V. (2010). Universal series in
$\cap_{p>1}l^p$. Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 42(1), 119–129.
Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2009). Density results with linear combinations of translates of fundamental solutions. J.
Approx. Theory,161(2), 617–633.
Karageorghis, A., Chen, C. S., & Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2009). Matrix decomposition RBF algorithm for solving 3D
elliptic problems. Eng. Anal. Bound. Elem., 33(12), 1368–1373.
Smyrlis, Y.-S., & Karageorghis, A. (2009). Efficient implementation of the MFS: the three scenarios. J.
Comput. Appl. Math, 227(1), 83–92.
Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2009). Applicability and applications of the method of fundamental solutions. Math.
Comp., 78(267), 1399–1434.
Smyrlis, Y.-S., (2009). Mathematical foundation of the MFS for certain elliptic systems in linear elasticity.
Numer. Math, 112(2), 319–340.
Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2009). Approximation by solutions of elliptic equations in semilocal spaces. J. Math. Anal.
Appl., 350(1), 122–134.
Zakradze, M., Koblishvili, N., Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y. (2008). On solving the Dirichlet generalized
problem for harmonic function by the method of fundamental solutions. Semin. I. Vekua Inst. Appl.
Math. Rep., 34, 24–32, 124.
Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2008). Conformal mapping for the efficient MFS solution of Dirichlet
boundary value problems. Computing, 83(1), 1–24.
Karageorghis, A., & Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2009). Performance of GMRES for the MFS. In C. Brebbia (Ed.), Mesh
Reduction Methods, BEM/MRM XXXI, WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation, 49 (pp. 163-171).
Southampton: WIT Press.
Smyrlis, Y.-S. (2006). The method of fundamental solutions: a weighted least-squares approach. BIT,
46(1),163–194.
Smyrlis, Y.-S., & Papageorgiou, D. T. (1991). Predicting chaos for infinite-dimensional dynamical systems:
the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, a case study. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 88(24), 11129–11132, U.S.A
Smyrlis, Y.-S. (1990). Existence and stability of stationary profiles of the LW scheme. Comm. Pure Appl.
Math., 43(4), 509–545.
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CHRISTODOULOS SOPHOCLEOUS Professor
STUDIES
University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K., B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1987
University of Nottingham, U.K., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Mathematical Physics; Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Nonlinear Diffusive and Wave Εquations that model problems in Mathematical Physics
and Mathematical Biology
Symmetries, conservation laws and exact solutions of systems of evolution equations
that arise in Mathematical Biology and Physics
Predicting commodity prices using group analysis
PUBLICATIONS
Tsaousi, C., & Sophocleous, C. (2010). Differential invariants for systems of linear hyperbolic equations.
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 363, 238-248.
Ivanova, N. M., Sophocleous, C., & Leach, P. G. L. (2010). Group Classification of a Class of Equations
Arising in Financial Mathematics. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 372, 273-286.
Ivanova, N. M., Popovych, R. O., & Sophocleous, C. (2010). Group Analysis of Variable Coefficient
Diffusion--Convection Equations. I. Enhanced Group Classification. Lobachevsky Journal of
Mathematics, 31, 100-122.
Vaneeva O. O., Popovych R. O., & Sophocleous, C. (2009). Enhanced Group Analysis and Exact Solutions
of Variable Coefficient Semilinear Diffusion Equations with a Power Source. Acta Applicandae
Mathematicae, 106, 1-46.
Tsaousi, C., Sophocleous, C., & Tracina, R. (2009). Invariants of two and three dimensional hyperbolic
equations. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 349, 516-525.
Ivanova, N. M., & Sophocleous, C. (2008). Conservation laws and potential symmetries of systems of
diffusion equations. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 41(235201), 14 p.
Popovych R. O., Sophocleous, C., & Vaneeva, O. O. (2008). Exact Solutions of a Remarkable Fin Equation.
Applied Mathematics Letters, 21, 209-214.
Sophocleous, C., Leach P. G. L., & Andriopoulos, K. (2008). Algebraic Properties of Evolution Partial
Differential Equations Modelling Prices of Commodities. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences,
31, 679-694.
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Tracina, R., & Sophocleous, C. (2008). Equivalence transformations and differential invariants for
generalized wave equations, Proceedings of the 14th Conference on WASCOM 2007 (pp. 570-575).
WASCOM.
Vaneeva, O. O., Popovych, R. O., & Sophocleous, C. (2009). Reduction Operators of Variable Coefficient
Semilinear Diffusion Equations with a Power Source, Proceedings of the 4th workshop ‘Group Analysis
of Differential Equations & Integrability (pp. 191-209).
NIKOS STYLIANOPOULOS Professor
STUDIES
University of Patras, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1985
Brunel University, U.K., M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis, 1987
Brunel University, U.K., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1990
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Orthogonal Polynomials; Computational Complex Analysis; Approximation in the
Complex Plane; Potential Theory; Numerical Linear Algebra
Orthogonal Polynomials in the Complex Plane
Orthogonal Polynomials in the Complex Plane: Distributions of Zeros and Asymptotics
Funding: Mathematisches Forschunginstitut Oberwolfach, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Papamichael, N., & Stylianopoulos, N. (2010). Numerical Conformal Mapping. New Jersey: World
Scientific.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Khavinson, D., & Stylianopoulos, N. (2009). Recurrence relations for orthogonal polynomials and
algebraicity of solutions of the Dirichlet problem. Around the Research of Vladimir Maz'ya II, Partial
Differential Equations (pp. 219-228). New York: Springer. Available from
http://www.springer.com/math/analysis/book/978-1-4419-1342-5
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Stylianopoulos, N. (2010). Strong asymptotics for Bergman orthogonal polynomials over non-smooth
domains. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I (348), 21-24.
Gustafsson, B., Putinar, M., Saff, E., & Stylianopoulos, N. (2009). Bergman polynomials on an Archipelago:
Estimates, Zeros and Shape Reconstruction. Adv. Math, 222, 1405-1460.
Gustafsson, B., Putinar, M., Saff, E., & Stylianopoulos, N. (2008). Les polynomes orthogonaux de Bergman
sur un archipel. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I (346), 499-502.
Saff, E., & Stylianopoulos, N. (2008). Asymptotics for Polynomial Zeros: Beware of Predictions from Plots.
CMFT 8, 2(385), 407.
NIKOLAOS TZIOLAS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc. in Mathematics, 1991
University of Utah, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1999
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Algebraic Geometry
PUBLICATIONS
Tziolas, N. (2009). Q-Gorenstein smoothings of non-normal surfaces. American Journal of Mathematics,
131, 171-193.
DISTINGUISHED PUBLIATIONS
Tziolas, N. (2005). Three dimensional divisorial extremal neighborhoods. Mathematische Annalen, 333,
315-354.
Tziolas, N. (2005). Families of D-minimal models and applications to 3-fold divisorial contractions.
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 90(2), 345-370.
Tziolas, N. (2003). Terminal 3-fold divisorial contractions of a surface to a curve I. Compositio
Mathematica, 193(3), 239-261.
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ALEKOS VIDRAS Professor
STUDIES
University of Athens, Greece, B.Sc in Mathematics, 1986
University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1992
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Residue Currents; Representations of Holomorphic Functions by Carleman Formulas;
Entire Functions
EDITORIAL BOARDS
UFA Mathematical Journal, Russia, Institute of Mathematics with Computer Center of the
Ufa Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
Aizenberg, L., Gotlib, V., & Vidras, A. (2009). Bohr and Rogosinski abscissas for ordinary Dirichlet series.
Comput. Methods Funct. Theory, 9(1), 65-74.
Aizenberg, L., & Vidras, A. (2008). Geometric generalizations in Kresin-Maz’ya sharp real-part theorems.
Complex Anal. Oper. Theory, 2(3), 405-415.
Vidras, A. (2008). Reconstructing holomorphic functions in a domain from their values on a part of its
boundary. Complex analysis and dynamical systems III. Contemp. Math. 455 (pp. 393-410). Amer. Math.
Soc. Providence, RI.
CHRISTOS XENOPHONTOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
The College of William and Mary, U.S.A., B.Sc. (High Honors) in Mathematics, 1991
University of Maryland Baltimore, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, 1993
University of Maryland Baltimore, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, 1996
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, U.S.A. • American Mathematical Society,
U.S.A. • Greek Association of Computational Mechanics, Greece
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Numerical Analysis; Computational Mathematics; Numerical Solution of Differential
Equations; Finite Element Methods
Development of the Singular Function Boundary Integral Method for three-dimensional
elliptic boundary value problems with boundary singularities
PUBLICATIONS
Christodoulou, E., Xenophontos, C., & Georgiou, G. (2010). The Singular Function Boundary Integral
Method for singular Laplacian problems over circular sectors. Applied Mathematics and Computation,
217(5), 2773-2787.
Elliotis, M., Christodoulou, E., Georgiou G., & Xenophontos, C. (2010). The Singular Function Boundary
Integral Method for a 3-D Laplacian problem with an edge singularity. Recent Developments in
Boundary Element Methods (A Volume to honor Prof. Katsikadelis), 31-42.
Knapp, M., & Xenophontos, C. (2010). Numerical analysis meets number theory: using root finding
methods to calculate inverses mod pn. Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 4, 23-31.
Kellogg, R. B., & Xenophontos, C. (2010). An enriched subspace finite element method for convectiondiffusion problems. International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 7(3), 477-490.
Nicaise, S., & Xenophontos C. (2010). Finite element methods for a singularly perturbed transmission
problem. Journal of Numerical Mathematics, 17(4), 245-275.
Xenophontos C., & Oberbroeckling, L. (2010). On the finite element approximation of systems of
reaction-diffusion equations by p/hp methods. Journal of Computational Mathematics, 28(3), 386-400
Christodoulou, E., Xenophontos, C., & Georgiou, G. (2009). The singular function boundary integral
method for elliptic problems with boundary singularities. Recent Advances in Boundary Element
Methods: A Volume to honor Prof. D. Beskos, G. Manolis and D. Polyzos (Eds.), 43-56.
Xenophontos, C. (2008). The hp finite element approximation for singularly perturbed systems of
reaction-diffusion equations. Journal of Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computation (Special Issue on
Singularly Perturbed Problems), 16, 337–352.
Xenophontos, C., Christodoulou, E., & Georgiou, G. (2010). The singular function boundary integral
method for Laplacian problems with boundary singularities in two and three-dimensions, Procedia
Computer Science, 1, 2583-2591.
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ACADEMIC STAFF
Constantia Alexandrou
Professor
Georgios Archontis
Associate Professor
Constantinos Christofides
Professor
Gregorios Itskos
Lecturer
Konstantinos Moulopoulos
Associate Professor
Andreas Othonos
Associate Professor
Haralambos G. Panagopoulos
Professor
Photios Ptochos
Associate Professor
Panos A. Razis
Professor
Stavros Theodorakis
Associate Professor
Nicolaos Toumbas
Assistant Professor
Haralambos P. Tsertos
Professor
Spiros S. Skourtis
Associate Professor
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The Department of Physics has 13 faculty members whose research areas cover a very broad
spectrum of the modern research activity in experimental, computational, and theoretical
physics.
Areas of research in our Department include applied physics, theoretical and computational
biophysics, theoretical condensed matter physics, experimental high energy physics, theoretical
and computational high energy physics, experimental nuclear physics, solid state physics and
optoelectronics.
Our faculty members maintain active collaborations with major research laboratories (e.g.,
CERN, CNRS, Fermi National Laboratory, GSI) and with top universities and research institutes
(e.g., Cambridge University, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole Polytechnique, Harvard University,
Imperial College, MIT, Weizmann Institute).
The research of our faculty is widely recognized with well over 38,000 citations to our work in
international scientific journals (ISI Web of Science, SPIRES).
Our objective is to maintain excellence in both teaching and research and to contribute to the
educational, technological and cultural development of Cyprus.
Georgios Archontis
Chairperson
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D e p a r t m e nt o f Phys i c s
CONSTANTIA ALEXANDROU Professor
STUDIES
Bachelor of Arts, Oxford University, U.K., 1980
Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Strong Interaction Physics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, U.S.A.,1985
American Physical Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical Strong Interaction Physics; Lattice QCD; Algorithms for Lattice QCD; Phase
Transitions and Topology in QCD; Polaron Problems
Studies in Strong Interactions: Confinement, Chiral Symmetry and Renormalization
Fom Strong Interactions to Condensed Matter physics
Hadron Structure in Lattice QCD: Nucleon Matrix Elements of twist-2 Operators Using
Dynamical Twisted Mass Fermions
Hadron Physics, I3HP
Cooperating Organizations: DESY-Zeuthen, Rome; Wuppertal, Liverpool; CERN
Funding: E.U.
STRONGnet, ITN Marie-Curie
Cooperating Organizations: Regensburg, Germany; Wuppertal, Germany; Bielefeld,
Germany; Madrid, Spain; Trinity College, Ireland; Parma, Italy; Edinburgh, Scotland
ADROMIOSI
Cooperating Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.; Institute of
Accelrating Systems and Applications (IASA), Greece; University of Athens, Greece
Hadron Structure using twisted fermions
Cooperating Organization: University of Grenoble, France
The shape of hadrons in lattice QCD
Cooperating Organization: Masschusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
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Hadron Structure in the Chiral Regime
Cooperating Organizations: DESY-Zeuthen, Germany; Orsay, France
Cy-Tera Infrastructure project
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; NCSA University of Illinois, U.S.A.;
Julich Supercomputing Center, Germany; SESAME, Jordan
PENEK: Meson properties in lattice Quantum Dynamics in the chiral regime
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; DESY-Zeuthen, Liverpool
Multi-core QCD algorithms for flavor singlet’s
Cooperating Organizations: Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; Julich Supercomputing Center,
Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Alexandrou, C., Korzec, T., Koutsou, G., Negele, J. W., & Proestos, Y. (2010). The Electromagnetic form
factors of the $\Omega^-$ in lattice QCD. [arXiv:1006.0558 [hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D82, 034504.
Alexandrou, C., Korzec, T., Koutsou, G., Leontiou, T., Lorce, C., Negele, J. W., Pascalutsa, V., Tsapalis, A., et al.
(2009). Delta-baryon electromagnetic form factors in lattice QCD. [arXiv:0810.3976 [hep-lat]]. Phys.Rev,
D79, 014507.
Alexandrou, C., Korzec, T., Koutsou, G., Cedric, L., Negele, J. W., Pascalutsa, V., Tsapalis, A., &
Vanderhaeghen, M. (2009). Quark transverse charge densities in the Delta(1232) from lattice QCD.
[arXiv:0901.3457 [hep-ph]]. Nucl.Phys., A825, 115-144.
Alexandrou, C. et al. (2009). Low-lying baryon spectrum with two dynamical twisted mass fermions.
[arXiv:0910.2419 [hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D80, 114503.
Alexandrou, C., Koutsou, G., Leontiou, T., Negele, J. W., & Tsapalis, A. (2009). Axial Nucleon to Delta
transition form factors on 2+1 flavor hybrid lattices. [arXiv:0912.0394 [hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D80, 099901.
Alexandrou, C., Koutsou, G., Neff, H., Negele, J. W., Schroers, W., & Tsapalis, A. (2008). Nucleon to delta
electromagnetic transition form factors in lattice QCD. [arXiv:0710.4621 [hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D77,
085012.
Alexandrou, C. et al. (2008). Light baryon masses with dynamical twisted mass fermions.
[arXiv:0803.3190 [hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D78, 014509.
Alexandrou, C., & Koutsou, G. (2008). A Study of Hadron Deformation in Lattice QCD. [arXiv:0809.2056
[hep-lat]]. Phys. Rev., D78, 094506.
Alexandrou, C. (2010). Hadron Structure and Form Factors, 28th International Symposium On Lattice
Field Theory (Lattice 2010).[arXiv:1011.3660 [hep-lat]]. PoS LATTICE2010 (2010) 001. Villasimius, Sardinia,
Italy.
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Alexandrou, C., Constantinou, M., Korzec, T., Carbonell, J., Harraud, P. A., Papinutto, M., Guichon, M. P., &
Jansen, K. (2010). Nucleon Structure in Lattice QCD using twisted mass fermions, 35th International
Conference On High Energy Physics: ICHEP 2010. PoS ICHEP2010 (2010) 361. Paris, France.
Alexandrou, C., Forcrand, P. D., Neff, H., Negele, J. W., Schroers, W., & Tsapalis, A. (2005). The N to Delta
electromagnetic transition form factors. Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 021601 (80 citations according to spires).
Alexandrou, C., Forcrand, P. D., & Tsapalis, A. (2002). The Static three quark SU(3) and four quark SU(4)
Potential. Phys. Rev., D 65, 054503 (60 citations according to spires).
Alexandrou, C., Jegerlehner, F., Gusken, S., Schilling, K., & Sommer, R. (1991). B meson properties from
lattice QCD. Phys.Lett, B256 60 (123 citations according to spires).
GEORGIOS ARCHONTIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
Harvard, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Theoretical Biophysics, 1994
Biophysical Society, U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biomolecular Structure-Function Relationships by Atomistic Molecular Dynamics
Simulations; Computer-Aided Protein and Drug Design; Formation of Peptide-based
Nanostructures With Medical and Technological Interest; Development and Application
of Implicit Solvent Models to the Thermodynamic Properties of Biomolecules.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
BMC Biophysics (Associate Editor), U.K., BioMed Central • Computational and Mathematical
Methods in Medicine, U.S.A., Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Computational Investigation of Peptide Sequences from the Adenovirus and Reovirus
Fiber Shaft: Insights on the Self-assembly of Peptide-based Nanostructures and the
Stability of the Triple-β Spiral Fold
Computational Investigation of the Salting-out Effect with Polarizable Water Models
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Protein Design Simulations and Application in the Genetic Engineering of AminoacylTRNA Synthetases
Cooperating Organization: Ecole Polytechnique, France
Computational Study of Ionic Effects on the Conformational Stability and the Helix/Coil
Equilibrium of Model Oligopeptides
Modification of the Specificity of Aminoacyl-TRNA RNA Syntethases by Biomolecular
Simulations
CyTera: A multi-Teraflop computing Facility For Science and Technology in Cyprus
Cooperating Organizations: The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; The National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), U.S.A; The Juelich Supercomputing center,
Germany; The Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle
East (SESAME).
PUBLICATIONS
Hayes, J. M., Skamnaki, V. T., Archontis, G., Lamprakis, C., Sarrou, J., Bischler, N., Skaltsounis, A. L.,
Zographos, S. E., & Oikonomakos, N. G. (2010). Kinetics, in silico docking, molecular dynamics, and MMGBSA binding studies on prototype indirubins, KT5720, and staurosporine as phosphorylase kinase
ATP-binding site inhibitors: The role of water molecules examined. Proteins: Structure, Function, and
Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1002/prot.2289.
Tamamis,P., Morikis, D., Floudas, C., & Archontis, G. (2010). Species specificity of the complement
inhibitor compstatin investigated by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins: Structure,
Function and Bioinformatics, 78, 2655-2667.
Aleksandrov, A., Polydoridis, S., Archontis, G., & Simonson, T. (2010). Predicting the Acid/Base Behavior of
Proteins: A constant-pH Monte Carlo Approach with Generalized Born Solvent. Journal of Physical
Chemistry B., 114, 10634-10648
Benifita, M., Hayes, J. M., Vidal, S., Gueyrard, D., Goekjan, P. G., Kizilis, G., Tiraidis, C., Alexacou, K. M.,
Chrysina, E. D., Zographos, S. E., Leonidas, D. D., Archontis, G., & Oikonomakos, N. G. (2009). Glucosebased spiro-isoxazolines: A new family of potent glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors. Bioorganic and
Medicinal Chemistry, 17, 7368-7380.
Tamamis, P., Kasotakis, E., Mitraki, A., & Archontis, G. (2009). Amyloid-like Self-Assembly of Peptide
Sequences from the Adenovirus Fiber Shaft: Insights from MD Simulations. Journal of Physical
Chemistry B., 113(47),15639-15647.
Tamamis, P., Abramovich, L-A., Reiches, M., Marshall, K., Sikorski, P., Serpell, L., Gazit, E., & Archontis, G.
(2009). Self-Assembly of Phenylalanine Oligopeptides: Insights from Experiments and Simulations.
Biophysical Journal, 96, 5020.
147
Alexacou, Ph. K-M.,et al. (2008). Crystallographic and computational studies on 4-phenyl -N-(β-Dglucopyranosyl) -1,2,3-triazoleacetamide, an inhibitor of glycogen phosphorylase: comparison with
-D-glucose , N-acetyl-β-D-glucopyranosylamine and N-benzoyl-N´-β-D-glucopyranosyl urea binding.
Proteins, Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 71, 1307-1323.
Tamamis,Ph., et al. (2008). Insights into the Self-assembly of Phenylalanine Oligopeptides by Replica
Exchange MD Simulations with the GBSW Implicit-Solvent Model. NIC Series, John von Neumann
Institute for Computing, 40, 393-396.
Brooks, B. R., Brooks III, C. L., Mackerell, A. D., Nilsson, L., Petrella, R. J., Roux, B., Won, Y., & Archontis, G. et
al. (2009). CHARMM. The Biomolecular Simulation Program. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 30,
1545.
Simonson, T., Archontis, G., & Karplus, M. (2002). Protein-ligand recognition: Free-energy simulations
come of age. Accounts of Chemical Research, 35, 430-437.
Lazaridis, T., Archontis, G., & Karplus, M. (1995). The enthalpic contribution to protein stability: Insights
from atombased calculations and statistical mechanics. Advances in Protein Chemistry, 47, 231-296.
CONSTANTINOS CHRISTOFIDES Professor
TEL.: 22894002/3, 22892824, FAX: 22894468, E-mail: [email protected]
STUDIES
University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, B.Sc., 1982
University of Grenoble, Grenoble, France, M.Sc., 1983
University of Grenoble, IEJE Department, Grenoble, France, D.E.A.
National Polytechnic School of Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, D.E.A., 1984
National Polytechnic School of Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, Ph.D., 1987
Council of the International Society of the “Solid State Physics”, International
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Photothermal Science: Instrumental and Physical Aspects; Photothermal and Optical
Sensors; Semiconductor Science and Devices – Ion Implantation; Solar Materials and
Solar Cells
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Nano et Micro Technologies, France, Edition “Hermes” • Book Series “Progress in
Phtothermal and Photoacoustics Science and Technology”, U.S.A., SPIE
148
A New PV Wave Making More Efficient Use of the Solar Spectrum
Cooperating organisations from: Spain (18 Partners); Germany; Russia; France; U.K.; The
Netherlands; Switzerland; Italy
Funding: FP6-2002-Energy-1, European Commission
The Diagnosis of Authenticity in Ancient Marble Findings with Luminescent Methods
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Cyprus Museum, Cyprus; NCSR
“Democritos” – Institute of Archaeometry, Greece
The Identification and Diagnosis of Deterioration in the Painting Materials of Byzantine
Icons with Optical Technologies/visual methods
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Museum of Kykkos Monastery,
Cyprus; Restoration Centre of “Ancient Icons, Paintings and Manuscripts” at the Holy
Archbishop of Cyprus, Cyprus
For Safer Hydrogen Energy: Detecting Photothermal in the Limits of the “Particles per
Trillion”
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; NCSR “Democritos” – Institute
of Microelectronics, Greece; University of Thessaloniki, Greece; AIAS Cyprus, Cyprus
Photothermal Microscopy under the Effect of External Electric Field: Technological
Development and Micro Electronic Applications
PUBLICATIONS
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Christofides, C. (2010). A systematic investigation into the conversion of
β-Ga2O3 to GaN nanowires NH3 and H2: Effects on the photoluminescence properties. Journal of
Applied Physics, 108(12), 124319-8.
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Christofides, C. (2010). Carrier Dynamics in β-Ga2O3 nanowires. Journal of
Applied Physicsm, 108(12), 124302-6.
Polikreti, K., & Christofides, C. (2010). Composition Profiles and Time Evoloution of Buried Marble Patinas
by LA-ICP-MS and Laser-Induced Micro-Photo-Luminescence. Archaeometry, 52(6), 937-948.
Zeinalipour-Yazdi, C. D., Moulopoulos, K., & Christofides, C. (2009). Linear Correlation between binding
energy and Young’s modulus in Graphene Nanoribbons. Journal of Applied Physics, 106(05), 054318-5.
Sherifi, C., Papademetriou, M. D., Nestoros, M., & Christofides, C. (2008). Photomodulated
thermoreflectance microscopy applied on ion-implanted materials. Physica Status Solidi (c)1-4 (2008).
doi 10.1002/pssc.200780199.
Polikreti, K., & Christofides, C. (2009). The role of humic substances in the formation of marble patinas
under soil burial conditions. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 36, 271-279.
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Demetriou, C., Nestoros, M., & Christofides, C. (2008). Photothermal Hydrogen Sensor: The technique,
experimental process, and physicochemical analysis. Applied Physics A, 92, 651-658.
Polikreti, K., & Christofides, C. (2008). Laser Induced Micro-Photoluminescence of Marble and
Application to Authenticity testing of Ancient Objects. Applied Physics A 90, 285-291.
Othonos, A., & Christofides, C. (2002). Ultrafast Dynamics in Phosphorous Implanted Silicon Wafers: The
effects of Annealing. Physical Review B 66, 085206-1 - 085206-10.
Christofides, C., & Ghibaudo, G. (1997). Effects of Disorder and Defects in Ion-Implanted
Semiconductors: Optical and Photothermal Characterization. Semiconductors & Semimetals, 46, xiii-xvi.
Mandelis, A., & Christofides, C. (1993). Physics, Chemistry and Technology of Solid State Gas Sensor
Devices. Chemical Analysis, 125: A Series of Monographs on Analytical Chemistry and its Applications.
New York: John Wiley and Sons. An Interscience Publication.
GRIGORIOS ITSKOS Lecturer
STUDIES
University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc. in Physics, 1997
State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Physics, 2003
Materials Research Society (MRS), U.S.A.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Optical and Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductors; Photophysics of Organic
and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Light Emission and Light Harvesting
Applications; Spintronics: Spin Injection in Semiconductors
Center for Fiber Bragg Gratings
Cooperating organization: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Molecular Electronics and Photonics
Cooperating organizations: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus; Imperial College
London, U.K.; University of Erlangen, Germany
150
Hybrid electroluminescent devices based on combinations of light-emitting polymers
and III-nitride semiconductors
Cooperating organizations: University of Crete, Greece; Cyprus University of Technology,
Cyprus
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Itskos, G., & Petrou, A. (2009). Spin Injection in Quantum Well Spin-Light Emitting Diodes. Germany:
VDM Verlag.
Belton, C. R., Itskos, G., Heliotis, P., Stavrinou, N., Lagoudakis, P. G., Lupton, J., Pereira, S., E. Gu, Griffin, C.,
Guilhabert, B., Watson, I. M., Mackintosh, A. R., Pethrick, A., Feldmann, J., Murray, R., Dawson, M. D., & D.
D. C. Bradley (2008). New light from hybrid inorganic-organic emitters. Journal of Physics D: Applied
Physics 41, 094006.
Othonos, A., Itskos, G., D. D. C. Bradley, Dawson, M. D., & Watson, I. M. (2009). Influence of surface-related
states on the carrier dynamics in (Ga,In)N/GaN single quantum wells. Applied Physics Letters, 94, 203102.
Itskos, G., Belton, C. R., Heliotis, G., Watson, I M., Dawson, M. D., Murray, R., & D. D. C Bradley (2009). White
Light Emission via Cascade Förster Energy Transfer in (Ga,In)N Quantum Well/ Polymer Blend Hybrid
Structures. Nanotechnology, 20, 275207.
KONSTANTINOS MOULOPOULOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
Cornell University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Physics, 1990
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics: Many-Body Coulomb Systems;
Superconductivity; Quasicrystals; Nanoscale Physics in Aharonov-Bohm Configurations;
Quantum Hall Systems and Topological Phases
PUBLICATIONS
Moulopoulos, K. (2010). Nonlocal phases of local quantum mechanical wavefunctions in static and timedependent Aharonov-Bohm experiments. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 43,
354019, 1-32.
151
Kyriakou, K., Moulopoulos, K., Ghazaryan, A. V., & Djotyan, A. P. (2010). Arbitrary mixture of two charged
interacting particles in a magnetic Aharonov-Bohm ring: persistent currents and Berry’s phases. Journal
of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 43, 354018, 1-11.
Avetisyan, A. A., Ghazaryan, A. V., Djotyan, A. P., Kirakosyan, A. A., & Moulopoulos, K. (2009).
Magnetoexcitons in Semiconductor Quantum Rings with Complicated (Kane’s) Dispersion Law. Acta
Physica Polonica A, 116, 826-828.
Avetisyan, A. A., Moulopoulos, K., & Djotyan, A. P. (2008). Phase Transitions in a Few-Electron Quantum
Dot in a Magnetic Field: Wigner Phases and Broken-Symmetry Spin-Singlet States. Journal of Physics of
Atomic Nuclei (J. Yadernaya Fizika), 71, 800-806.
Avetisyan, A. A., Moulopoulos, K., & Djotyan, A. P. (2008). Few-electron systems in a quantum dot in a
magnetic field: Wigner phase and broken – symmetry spin-singlet state. Journal of Nanotechnology
Perceptions, 4, 155-163.
Avetisyan, A. A., Moulopoulos, K., & Djotyan, A. P. (2008). Competing broken-symmetry and rotationally
symmetric spin-singlet states in a few-electron quantum dot in a magnetic field. Physica E, 40, 16371639.
Avetisyan, A. A., Moulopoulos, K., & Djotyan, A. P. (2008). Exciton - donor complexes in semiconductor
quantum dots in a magnetic field: infinite and finite potential barriers. Physica E, 40, 1648-1650.
Ghazaryan, A. V., Avetisyan, A. A., Djotyan, A. P., Kirakosyan, A. A., & Moulopoulos, K. (2010). Optical
properties of magnetoexcitons in narrow bandgap semiconductor quantum rings, Proceedings of the
International Conference “Laser Physics-2009” (pp. 121-126). Ashtarak, Armenia.
Moulopoulos, K. (2010). Nonlocal phases of local quantum mechanical wavefunctions in static and timedependent Aharonov-Bohm experiments. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 43,
354019, 1-32.
Moulopoulos, K., & Constantinou, M. (2004). Two interacting charged particles in an Aharonov-Bohm
ring: Bound state transitions, symmetry breaking, persistent currents, and Berry's phase. Physical Review
B, 70, 235327, 1-24.
K. Moulopoulos, K., & Ashcroft, N. W. (1999). Coulomb Interactions and Generalized Pairing in
Condensed Matter. Physical Review B, 59, 12309-12325.
ANDREAS OTHONOS Associate Professor
TEL.: 22892827, FAX: 22892821, E-mail: othonos @ucy.ac.cy
STUDIES
University of Toronto, Canada, B.Sc. in Physics, 1984
University of Toronto, Canada, M.Sc. in Physics, 1986
University of Toronto, Canada, Ph.D. in Physics, 1990
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ultrafast Science; Laser Physics; Semiconductor Physics; Non-linear optics;
Nanophotonics
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Advanced Materials Letters, International Journal, http://amlett.com/index.php, India, VBRI
Press
A Center for Fiber Bragg Gratings
Spatial-temporal Probing Nanostructures using Ultrafast Laser Techniques
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Crete, Greece
Study of Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in InGaN Semiconductors
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Crete, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Christofides, C. (2010). An investigation into the conversion of β-Ga2O3 to
GaN nanowires using NH3 and H2: Steady state and time resolved photoluminescence. Journal of
Applied Physics, 108, 124319.
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Christofides, C. (2010). Carrier dynamics in β-Ga2O3 nanowires. Journal of
Applied Physics, 108, 124302.
Zervos, M., & Othonos, A. (2010). Hydride assisted growth of GaN nanowires on Au/Si(001) via the direct
reaction of Ga with NH3 and H2. Journal of Crystal Growth, 312, 2631.
Othonos, A., & Zervos, M. (2010). Carrier dynamics in indium sulphide nanowires grown by chemical
vapor deposition. Physica Status Solidi A, 207, 2258.
Othonos, A., & Zervos, M. (2009). Carrier relaxation dynamics in SnxNy nanowires grown by chemical
vapor deposition. Journal of Applied Physics, 106, 114303.
Tsokkou, D., Othonos, A., & Zervos, M. (2009). Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of In2O3 nanowires.
Journal of Applied Physics, 106, 084307.
Othonos, A., Itskos, G., Bradley, D. D. C., Dawson, M. D., & Watson, I. M. (2009). Influence of surface related
states on the carrier dynamics in (Ga,In)N/GaN single quantum wells. Applied Physics Letters, 94,
203102.
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Tsokkou, D. (2009). Tin Oxide Nanowires: the influence of trap states on
ultrafast carrier relaxation. Nanoscale Research Letters, 4, 828.
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Tsokkou, D. (2009). Femtosecond Carrier Dynamics in In2O3 Nanocrystals.
Nanoscale Research Letters, 4, 526.
153
Othonos, A., Zervos, M., & Pervolaraki, M. (2009). Ultrafast Carrier Relaxation in InN Nanowires Grown by
Reactive Vapor Transport. Nanoscale Research Letters, 4, 122.
Othonos, A., & Kalli, K. (1999). Fiber Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in
Telecommunications and Sensing. Norwood, MA, U.S.A.: Artech House.
Othonos, A. (1998). Probing ultrafast carriers and phonon dynamics in semiconductors. Applied Physics
Reviews, 83, 1789-1830.
Othonos, A. (1997). Fiber Bragg gratings. Review of Scientific Instruments, 68, 4309-4341.
HARALAMBOS G. PANAGOPOULOS Professor
STUDIES
Harvard University, U.S.A., B.A. magna cum laude in Physics, 1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), U.S.A., Ph.D. in Physics, 1984
Union of Cypriot Physicists, Cyprus (Vice President)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical High Energy Physics and Elementary Particle Physics; Quantum Field Theory;
Computational Physics; Non-Perturbative Phenomena in Field Theories; Analytic and
Numerical Calculations in Gauge Theories on a Lattice
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Neusus (Editor), Greece, Nefeli Publications
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics and Computational Condensed Matter Physics
Studies in Strong Interactions: Hadron Structure, Renormalization and Confinement
STRONGnet
Cooperating Organizations: University of Regensburg-Bielefeld-Wuppertal, Germany;
University of Edinburgh-Liverpool, UK; University of Madrid, Spain; Trinity College,
Ireland; University of Graz, Austria; University of Parma, Italy; E.U.
Funding: European Network
154
Asymptotic freedom and confinement of quarks: Study of the forces inside nuclei, using
simulations and analytical methods
Cooprating Organizations: Oxford University, U.K.; University of Edinburgh, U.K.;
University of Pisa, Italy; Max Planck Institute, Germany; DESY, Germany
Strong Interaction Physics: Study of properties of hadronic matter, using methods of
Quantum Field Theory and large scale simulations
Cooperating Organizations: INFN, Italy; Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.; Oxford University, U.K.;
Max Planck Institute, Germany
Computational Physics of Strong Interactions: Properties of hadrons through large scale
simulations
Cooperating Organizations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.; IASA,
Hadron Structure in the Chiral Regime
Cooperating Organizations: NIC-DESY, Germany; University of Paris XI, France
PUBLICATIONS
Panagopoulos, H., Constantinou, M., Dimopoulos, P., Frezzotti, R., Lubicz, V., Rossi, G. C., Simula, S.,
Stylianou, F., & Vladikas, A. (2010). Non-perturbative renormalization of quark bilinear operators with
N_f = 2 (tmQCD) Wilson fermions and the tree-level improved gauge action. J. High Energy Phys. 08, 068.
Panagopoulos, H., & Skouroupathis, A. (2009). Two-loop renormalization of vector, axial and tensor
fermion bilinears on the lattice. Phys. Rev. D79, 094508.
Panagopoulos, H., & Vicari, E. (2009). theta-dependence of SU(N) gauge theories in the presence of a
topological term. Extensive review article. Physics Reports, 470, 93.
Panagopoulos, H., Constantinou, M., Lubicz, V., & Stylianou, F. (2009). O(a^2) corrections to the one-loop
propagator and bilinears of clover fermions with Symanzik improved gluons. J. High Energy Phys. 10, 064.
Panagopoulos, H., Athenodorou, A., & Tsapalis, A. (2008). The Lattice Free Energy of QCD with Clover
Fermions, up to Three-Loops. Phys. Lett. B 659, 252.
Panagopoulos, H., & Athenodorou, A. (2008). Large Wilson loops with overlap and clover fermions: Twoloop evaluation of the b-quark mass shift and the quark-antiquark potential. Nucl. Phys. B 799, 1.
Panagopoulos, H., L. Del Debbio, Frandsen, M., & Sannino, F. (2008). Higher representations on the
lattice: Perturbative studies. J. High Energy Phys. 06, 007.
Panagopoulos, H. (2010). O(alpha_L^2) perturbative Green's functions of the fermion propagator, and
of local and extended fermion bilinear operators, with Symanzik improved gluons and SLiNC fermions,
Proceedings, Lattice 2010, Villasimius, Italy, PoS(Lattice 2010)240.
155
Panagopoulos, H. (2009). Two-Loop Renormalization of fermion bilinears on the lattice, Proceedings,
HEP2009, Krakow, Poland. PoS (EPS-HEP 2009) 465.
Panagopoulos, H. (2008). O(a^2) corrections to the propagator and bilinears of Wilson / clover fermions,
Proceedings, Lattice 2008, College of William and Mary, U.S.A. PoS (LATTICE2008) 213.
FOTIOS PTOCHOS Associate Professor
STUDIES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc. Physics, 1987
Harvard University, U.S.A., M.Sc. Arts and Sciences, 1990
Harvard University, U.S.A., Ph.D. Physics, 1998
American Physical Society, U.S.A.
European Physical Society, Europe
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Top, Bottom Quarks; Higgs; Supersymmetry
The Regional Europe at the Center of Modern Scientific Research. Collaboration between
Greece and Cyprus in High Energy Physics and Cosmology
Funding: European Regional Development Fund, INTEREG-IIIA and The Governments of
Greece and Cyprus.
Fellowship for International Senior Researchers
Funding: Fermi National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Summer Student Fellowships for two Undergraduate Students to work on R & D on novel
detectors
Cooperating Organization: Fermi National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Funding: Fermi National Laboratory, U.S.A. and University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Search for Light Neutral NMSSM Higgs Bosons
PUBLICATIONS
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF Collaboration] (2010). Study of multi-muon events produced in p anti-p
collisions at – TeV. Eur. Phys. J. C, 68, 109-118.
156
Khachatryan, V., et al. [CMS Collaboration] (2010). First Measurement of Bose-Einstein Correlations in pp
collisions at and 2.36 TeV at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 105, 032001.
Khachatryan, V., et al. [CMS Collaboration] (2010). Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at
CMS. Physical Review Letters, 105, 211801.
Khachatryan, V., et al. [CMS Collaboration] (2010). Transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity
distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at -TeV. Physical Review Letters, 105, 022002.
Khachatryan, V., et al. [CMS Collaboration] (2010). Transverse momentum and pseudorapidity
distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at and 2.36 TeV. JHEP 02, 041.
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF Collaboration] (2010). Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in
proton antiproton Collisions at – TeV. Physical Review D 82, 0921001.
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF and D0 Collaborations] (2010). Combination of Tevatron searches for the
standard model Higgs boson in the W+W- decay mode. Physical Review Letters, 104, 061802.
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF Collaboration] (2009). Search for narrow resonances lighter than Y mesons. Eur.
Phys. J. C 62, 319-326.
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF Collaboration] (2009). First observation of Electroweak single top quark
production. Physical Review Letters, 103, 092002.
Aaltonen, T., et al. [CDF Collaboration] (2008). Measurement of correlated production in collisions at GeV. Physical Review D 77, 072004.
PANOS A. RAZIS Professor
STUDIES
Yale University, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Physics, 1982
Yale University, U.S.A., M.Ph. in Physics, 1982
Yale University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Physics, 1986
Hellenic High Energy Physics Society, Greece • European Physical Society, Europe • Greek
Physical Society, Greece
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Experimental High Energy Physics, with and without Accelerators; Detectors, Electronic
Data Acquisition and Calibration; Analysis and Simulation of Events; Unification Models,
Supersymmetry and Cosmology; Electromagnetic Radiation and Medical Physics
KM3NeT-PP A European Deep-Sea Research Infrastructure (Neutrino Telescope)
Cooperating organizations: 24 Universities and Research Institutions
157
Detecting, Monitoring and Studying the Characteristics of Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic
Radiation in the Environment, European Union’s Initiative Research Program INTERREG
IIIA Greece–Cyprus
Cooperating organizations: University of the Aegean, Greece; Hellenic Open University,
Greece
High Energy Physics with the CMS Experiment at LHC
Cooperating Organization: CMS Collaboration, CERN
Search for Light Neutral NMSSM Higgs Bosons
Search for the higgs boson
PUBLICATIONS
Razis, P. (2010). Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at
sqrt(s)=7. TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett, 105, 262001.
Razis, P. (2010). Search for Dijet Resonances in TeV pp Collisions at CMS. Phys. Rev. Lett, 105, 211801.
Razis, P. (2010). Observation of Long-Range Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions
at the LHC. JHEP 1009, 091.
Razis, P. (2010). CMS Tracking Performance Results from early LHC Operation. Eur. Phys. J., C70, 555-572.
Razis, P. (2010). First Measurement of the Underlying Event Activity at the LHC with \sqrt{s}=0.9 TeV.
Available from http://arxiv.org/pdf/10068.2083.pdf
Razis, P. (2010). Measurement of the charge ratio of atmospheric muons with the CMS detector, Phys.
Lett. , B692, 83-104.
Razis, P. (2010). Measurements Automation, Processing, Monitoring and Control of the Electromagnetic
Spectrum via the Advantest Spectrum Analyzer R3131A . In S. Wiak, & E. Napieralska-Juszczak (Eds.),
Computer Field Models of Electromagnetic Devices, Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium
on Electromagnetic Fields (ISEF 2009) (p. 655). Arras, France: IOS Press
Razis, P. (2009). Commissioning and Operation of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter, IEEE Nuclear
Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (N43, p. 2254). Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
Razis, P. (2009). Automatization on the Reports of the Laboratory of Monitoring of the Electromagnetic
Spectrum. Computer Field Models of Electromagnetic Devices, In S. Wiak, & E. Napieralska-Juszczak
(Eds.), Computer Field Models of Electromagnetic Devices, Proceedings of the 14th International
Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields (ISEF 2009). (p. 938). Arras, France: IOS Press
158
Razis, P. (1985). E-715 Collaboration: Measurement of the Electron Asymmetry in the Beta Decay of
Polarized Σ Ηyperons. Phys. Rev. Lett, 54, 2399 pp.
Razis, P. (1989). A Determnination of the Properties of the Neutral Intermediate Vector Boston Z, Phys.
Lett, B231, 509 pp.
Razis, P. (1993). L3 Collaboration: ‘Results from the L3 Experiment at LEP’, Phys. Rept., 236, 1-146.
STAVROS THEODORAKIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Sussex, U.K., B.Sc. In Mathematical Physics, 1981
Stanford University, U.S.A., M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, 1983
Stanford University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, 1986
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bose-Einstein condensates; Phenomenology of layered superconductors;
Phenomenology of superfluid Helium 3; Nonlinear field equations in Physics
PUBLICATIONS
Theodorakis, S., & Kindyni, N. (2010). Local pinning of trial wavefunctions: an optimization method
without integrals for finding approximate solutions of field equations. American Journal of Physics, 78,
244-249.
Theodorakis, S., & Paridi, K. (2009). Oscillations of a candle burning at both ends. American Journal of
Physics, 77, 1049-1054.
Theodorakis, S., & Psaroudaki, C. (2009). Oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a rapidly
contracting circular box. Physics Letters A, 373, 441-447.
Theodorakis, S. (2009). The motto in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter”, ANQ (American Notes and
Queries), 22(1), 25-27.
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NICOLAOS TOUMBAS Assistant Professor
STUDIES
Columbia University, U.S.A., B.A. in Physics, 1996
Stanford University, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics, 2001
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Quantum Gravity, Superstrings, Black Holes
Regional Europe at the Center of Modern research. Collaboration between Greece and
Cyprus in Theoretical High Energy Physics and Cosmology (INTERREG IIIA program)
Cooperating Organization: University of Crete, Greece
Funding: European Commission, Republic of Greece, Republic of Cyprus
Superstring Theory
Cooperating Organization: Marie Curie Research Training Network program
PUBLICATIONS
Toumbas, N. (2010). Open Problems in String Cosmology. Fortsch. Phys. 58, 806-810.
I. Florakis, I., Kounnas, C., & Toumbas, N. (2010). Marginal Deformations of Vacua with Massive bosonfermion Degeneracy Symmetry. Nucl. Phys. B 834, 273-315.
Catelin-Jullien,T., Kounnas, C., Partouche, H., & Toumbas, N. (2009). Induced superstring cosmologies and
moduli stabilization. Nucl. Phys. B 820, 290-316.
Angelantonj, C., Kounnas, C., Partouche, H., & Toumbas, N. (2009). Resolution of Hagedorn singularity in
superstrings with gravito-magnetic fluxes. Nucl. Phys. B 809, 291-307.
Catelin-Jullien,T., Kounnas, C., Partouche, H., & Toumbas, N. (2008). Thermal and quantum superstring
cosmologies. Fortsch. Phys. 56, 792-799.
Catelin-Jullien,T., Kounnas, C., Partouche, H., & Toumbas, N. (2008). Thermal/quantum effects and
induced superstring cosmologies. Nucl. Phys. B 797, 137-178.
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HARALAMBOS P. TSERTOS Professor
STUDIES
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.Sc. in Physics, 1977
Technical University of Munich, Germany, M.Sc. in Physics, 1980
Technical University of Munich, Germany, Ph.D. in Physics, 1985
GSI, HADES, International (Collaboration Board Committee) • Hellenic High-Energy
Physics Society, Greece
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Experimental Hadron and Heavy-Ion Physics at Relativistic Energies: Equation of
State (EoS) of Hot and Dense Hadronic Matter, Nuclear Tests of Fundamental Interactions
and Symmetries, Particle Detectors and Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques;
Experimental Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) of Very Strong Electromagnetic Fields;
Environmental and Medical Applications of Nuclear Radiation
Upgrading the existing High-Performance Linux Cluster for Heavy-ion Experiments at
GSI and CERN
PUBLICATIONS
Michael, F., Parpottas, Y., & Tsertos, H. (2010). Gamma radiation measurements and dose rates in
commonly used building materials in Cyprus. 142(2)-4, 282-291.
The HADES Collaboration (2010). In-medium effects on K0 mesons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 82:4.
The HADES Collaboration (2010). Λ-p femtoscopy in collisions of Ar+KCl at 1.76AGeV. Physical Review C Nuclear Physics, 82:2.
The HADES Collaboration (2010). Origin of the low-mass electron pair excess in light nucleus-nucleus
collisions. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 690(2),
118-122.
The HADES Collaboration (2009). Deep sub threshold Ξ- production in Ar+KCl reactions at 1.76AGeV.
Physical Review Letters, 103:13.
The HADES Collaboration (2009). Phi Decay: A relevant source for K- production at energies available at
the GSI Schwerionen-Synchrotron (SIS). Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 80:2.
The HADES Collaboration (2009). The high-acceptance dielectron spectrometer HADES. European
Physical Journal A., 41(2), 243-277.
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The HADES Collaboration (2009). Measurement of low-mass e(+)e(-) pair production in 1 and 2 A GeV CC collision with HADES. European Physical Journal C, 62(1), 81-84.
The HADES Collaboration (2009). Measurement of charged pions in C + C collisions at 1 A GeV and 2 A
GeV with HADES. European Physical Journal A.,40:1, 45-59.
The HADES Collaboration (2008). Study of dielectron production in C + C collisions at 1 A GeV. Physics
Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 663(1-2), 43-48.
The HADES Collaboration (2007). Dielectron production in C-12+C-12 collisions at 2-AGeV with HADES.
Physical Review Letters 98: 052302.
Tzortzis, M., Tsertos, H., Christofides, S., & Christodoulides, G. (2003). Gamma-ray measurements of
naturally occurring radioactive samples from Cyprus characteristic geological rocks. Radiation
Measurements 37, 221-229.
Tsertos, H., Clemente, E., Berdermann, P.,Wagner, K.W., Bosch, F., Kozhuharov, C., Koenig, W. (1985). On
the scattering-angle dependence of the monochromatic positron emission from U + U and U + Th
collisions. Publishe Physics Letters B162, 273–276.
SPIROS S. SKOURTIS Associate Professor
STUDIES
University of Miami, Florida, U.S.A., B.G.S. in Physics and Mathematics, 1986
University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A., Ph.D. in Theoretical Biophysics, 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modeling of charge and energy transport in biological and molecular systems (solution,
molecular junction, single molecule settings); Open quantum systems theory for
molecular rate processes in condensed phase environments; Chemical and biological
tunneling phenomena; Structure-function and dynamics-function relationships for
proteins
EDITORIAL BOARDS
BMC Biophysics, (Associate Editor), U.K., BioMed Central Ltd
Cy-tera a multi-teraflop/s computing facility for science and technology in Cyprus
Cooperating Organizations: University of Cyprus, Cyprus; Cyprus Institute, Cyprus;
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), U.S.A.; Julich Supercomputing
Center, (JSC) Germany; Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in
the Middle East (SESAME) Jordan
162
PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Ben-Moshe, V., Beratan, D. N., Nitzan, A., & Skourtis, S. S., (2010). Chiral Control of Current Transfer in
Molecules. Top Curr Chem. doi: 10.1007/128_2010_101, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Balabin,I., Skourtis, S. S., & Beratan, D. N. (2009). Chemical roles of water in electron transfer (Advanced
Review). Wiley Encyclopaedia of Chemical Biology (pp. 259-278). U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell. Available from
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470048672.wecb148/refer
Skourtis, S. S., Waldeck, D. H., & Beratan, D. N. (2010). Fluctuations in biological and bioinspired electrontransfer reactions. Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 61, 461-485.
Ben-Moshe, V., Rai, D., Skourtis, S. S., & Nitzan, A. (2010). Steady-state current transfer and scattering
theory. J. Chem. Phys., 133, 054105.
V Ben-Moshe, Α. Nitzan, S. S. Skourtis, & D. N. Beratan (2010). Steady state theory of current transfer. J.
Phys. Chem. C., 114, 8005-8013.
Lin, Z., Lawrence, C. M., Xiao, D., Kireev, V. V., Skourtis, S. S., Sessler, J. L., Beratan, D. N., & Rubtsov, I. V.,
(2009). Modulating Unimolecular Charge Transfer by Exciting Bridge Vibrations. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131,
18060–18062.
Beratan, D. N., Skourtis, S. S., Balabin, I. A., Balaeff, A., Keinan, S., Venkatramani, R., & Xiao, D. (2009).
Steering Electrons on Moving Pathways. Accounts of Chemical Research, 42, 1669-1678.
Xiao, D., Skourtis, S. S., Rubtsov, I. V., Beratan, D. N. (2009). Turning charge transfer on and off in a
molecular interferometer with vibronic pathways. Nano Lett., 9, 1818-23.
Skourtis, S. S., Beratan, D. N., Naaman, R., Nitzan, A., & Waldeck, D. H. (2008). Chiral control of electron
transmission through molecules. Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 283103.
Balabin, I. A., Beratan, D. N., & Skourtis, S. S. (2008). The persistence of structure over fluctuations in
biological electron transfer reactions. Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 158102.
Skourtis, S. S., Waldeck, D. H., & Beratan, D. N., (2010). Fluctuations in biological and bioinspired electrontransfer reactions. Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem., 61, 461-485.
Lin, Z., Lawrence, C. M., Xiao, D., Kireev, V. V., Skourtis, S. S., Sessler, J. L., Beratan, D. N., & Rubtsov, I. V.
(2009). Modulating Unimolecular Charge Transfer by Exciting Bridge Vibrations. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131,
18060–18062.
Skourtis, S. S., & Berata, D. N. (2007). Photosynthesis from the Protein’s Perspective. Science, 316, 703-704.
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DOCTORAL TITLES AWARDED
ABREVIATIONS
ACADEMIC STAFF INDEX
164
DOCTORAL TITLES 2008-2010
Name of Graduate
Department Doctoral Title
2008
Chatzimina Maria, K.
MAS
Numerical and semi-analytical Solutions of
viscoplastic Poiseuille and Couette flows
Demetriou Elena
MAS
Lie group classification of diffusion-type
equations
Genethliou Nicholas
BIO
A Study on the role of SOX1 in the regulation of
glial specification in the developing spinal cord of
mice
Koupepidou Panayiota
BIO
Defective polycystin 2 increases Cellular
proliferation in the PKD2 (1-703) transcening rat
subsequent to the appearance of renal cysts
Koutsou Giannis
PHY
Hadron form factors and hadron deformation
from lattice QCD
Mateou Nicos, H.
CS
A framework For developing intelligent
information systems to support decision Making
In complex and uncertain environments”
Mousih Eleni E.
CHE
New structural topologies, high spin molecules
and molecular nanomagnets from the use of 1,3propanediol and its derivatives in manganese
carboxylate chemistry
Papastavrou Stavros
CS
Semantics-based metrics and algorithms for
dynamic content in web database applications
Skouroupathis Apostolos
PHY
Higher–loop renormalization in Lattice QCD and
non-perturbative studies of SU(N) Gauge
Theories
Stavrou Kyriacos
CS
The TFlux platform; a portable platform for datadriven multithreading on commodity
multiprocessor systems
Taliadorou Eleni, G.
MAS
Numerical simulations of compressible
generalized newtonian flows
Tsaousi Christina
MAS
Differential invariants of hyperbolic equations”.
Tsouloupas Georgios
CS
Grindbench: Resource Performance Ranking And
Auditing In Computational Grids”.
Xing Wei
CS
Acton: managing dynamic information in largescale distributed systems”.
165
Name of Graduate
2009
Antoniou Josephina
CS
Cooperative interactions in converged
heterogeneous communication networks
Chadjiantoniou, Natalia A.
CHE
Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic
Multiblock Linear Compolymers and Co-networks
Georgiadis Dimosthenis
CS
Dynamic workflows in the home eHealthcare
provision
Lamprecht Martin
MAS
Topics in geometric function theory and
harmonic analysis
Milwnas Giannakis
CS
Speed Adaptive Information Dissemination in
Vehicular
Nicolaou Christodoulos, A.
CS
Graph design using knowledge-driven, selfadaptive multi-objective evolutionary graph
algorithms
Paspallis Nearchos
CS
Middleware-based development of contextaware applications with reusable components
Petsa Athanasia
MAS
Contributions to Wavelet Methods in
Nonparametric Statistics
Polydorides Savvas
PHY
Application of an efficient and accurate
generalized Born model to high throughput
Kousiappa Ioanna
BIO
Genetic heterogeneity and molecular evolution
of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1
(HIV-1)
Koupanou Elena
CHE
Synthesis of stable suspensions of PbS particles
using aqueous chemistry methods and various
stabilizers. Production of multilayer particle films
using the Layer-by-Layer (LBL) assembly method
Karaolis Minas, A.
CS
Knowledge Mining through Rule Mining in
Cardio-vascular Databases Ad-Hoc Networks
Tamamis Fanourios
PHY
Formation of peptide nanostructures and
molecular recognition of complement
component protein C3 by compstatin: molecular
dynamics Studies
2010
Andreou Panagiotis
CS
KSPOT: A network-aware framework for energyefficient data acquisition in wireless sensor
networks
Antoniadis Athos
CS
Discovering disease associated gene-gene
interactions: a two SNP interaction analysis
framework
Antoniou Stella, EI.
CHE
Effect of natural organic matter (HA) in the
stability and solubility of metalions solid phases
166
Name of Graduate
(Μ(ΙΙΙ), Μ(ΙV), M(VI))
Christoforou Christoforos
CS
Radio resource management for efficient
multicast service in 3rd generation mobile
cellular networks
Christodoulou Eugenia, Ch.
MAS
Extensions of the Singular Function Boundary
Integral Method to two and three dimensions
Cleanthous Aristodemos
CS
In search of self-control through computational
modeling of Internal conflict
Constantinou, Domna A.
CHE
Purification of Commercial Gas Stream of
Biomass Gasifigation from Phenol with a Further
Production of H2 Using Catalytic Processes
Demetriou Victoria, L.
BIO
Genetic studies on the Hepatitis C virus
Hadjikyriakou Milto
MAS
Probability and moment Inequalities for
demimartingales and associated random
variables
Kalamaras Christos, M.
CHE
Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of the Water-Gas
Shift Reaction Using Operando Methodology
and Transient Isotopic Techniques
Malekkou Anna
BIO
Characterization of the human nuclear protein,
termed as hCINAP
Michael Despina, G.
CS
Real – time high quality HDR Illumination and
tonemapped rendering”.
Neokleous Kleanthis
CS
Computational modeling of visual selective
attention”.
Pafiti Kyriaki, S.
CHE
Development of synthetic hydrophilic, cationic
biomaterials for use in small interfering RNA
technology
Pieridou Galateia, K.
CHE
Uv Resonance Raman Study Of Peptide Ttr (105115)
Panagiotou Christoforos
CS
Time Based Personalizations for Wireless User
Panagidis Andreas
CS
Diagnostically resilient encoding, wirless
transmission, and quality assessment of medical
video
Rikkou Maria, P.
CHE
Synthesis Characterization and Degradation of
Polymers Based on Degradable Initiators
Stylianou Panayiota
BIO
Addressing the molecular basis of
morphogenetic movements during Xenopus
gastrulation with the use of quantum dot
nanocrystals : the role of Focal Adhesion Kinase
(FAK) during Xenopus development
167
ABREVIATIONS
FP6
FP7
RPF
ESRC
COST
EUT
168
6th Framework Programme
7th Framework Programme
Rsearch Promotion Foundation, Cyprus
Economic and Social Research Council
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Edizioni Universita di Trieste
ACADEMIC STAFF INDEX
Constantinou Andreas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Alexandrou Constantia, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144
Archontis Georgios, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Christodoulou Chris, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Christofides Constantinos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Christofides C. Tasos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Christoforou C. Cleopatra, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Chronakis Nikos, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Chrysanthou L. Yiorgos, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Damianou A. Pantelis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Deltas Constantinos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Dikaiakos D. Marios, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Dimopoulos Yannis, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Efstathiou M. Angelos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Evripidou Paraskevas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Fokianos Konstantinos, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Georgiades Pantelis, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Georgiou Chryssis, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Georgiou C. Georgios, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Hayes C. Sophia, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Itskos Gregorios, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150
Kakas C. Antonis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Kapnisi-Christodoulou P. Constantina, Lecturer . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Karageorghis Andreas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Karagrigoriou Alex, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .123
Keramidas D. Anastasios, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Keravnou-Papailiou Elpida, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Kirschel Alexander, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Kostrikis G. Leondios , Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Koumandos Stamatis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Koutentis A. Panayiotis, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Kyriazis George, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Kirmizis Antonis, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Leontidis B. Epameinondas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Mavronicolas Marios, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Milakis Emmanouil, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
Moulopoulos Konstantinos, Associate Professor . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Nicolaides Athanasios, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Othonos Andreas, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152
Pallikaros A. Christos, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .128
Pallis George, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
169
Panagopoulos G. Haralambos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Papadopoulos A. George, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Paparoditis G. Efstathios, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Paschalides Ioannis, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Patrickios S. Costas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Pattichis S. Constantinos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Philippou Anna, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Pinakoulaki Eftychia, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Pitsillides Andreas, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Promponas Vasilis, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Ptochos Fotios, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Razis A. Panos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Samaras George, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Samiou Evangelia, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .130
Santama Niovi, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Sapatinas Theofanis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .131
Sazeides Yiannakis, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Schizas N. Christos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Skourides Paris, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Skourtis S. Spiros, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Smyrlis Yiorgos-Sokratis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Sophocleous Christodoulos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
Strati Katerina, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Biological Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Stylianopoulos Nikos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
Tasiopoulos Anastasios, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Theocharis R. Charis, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Theodorakis Stavros, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
Toumbas Nicolaos, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Trancoso Pedro, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Tsertos P. Haralambos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Tziolas Nikolaos, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .136
Vassiliou Vasos, Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Vidras Alekos, Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Xenophontos Christos, Associate Professor . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Mathematics and Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Zeinalipour Demetris, Lecturer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Department of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
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