George Floudas
Professor
Office: Φ3-209
Laboratory: Φ3-208
Office Tel No: 30-26510-08564
Lab Tel No: 30-26510-08561
Fax: 30-26510-08693
Ε-mail: gfloudas@cc.uoi.gr
Education:
- 1987- 1990: PhD in Physics, University of Crete.
- 1983 -1985: Masters in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York.
- 1979 - 1983: BSc in Physics, University of Thessaloniki.
Career Summary:
- 2006 - today: Professor, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina.
- 2001- 2006: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina.
- 1994 - 2001: Senior Researcher FORTH-IESL, Crete.
- 1992 -1994: Researcher Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany.
- 1991-1992: Post-doctoral Researcher, Imperial College, Department of Chemical Engineering, UK.
Research Interests:
- Predicting structure - property relationships in "soft" materials
- Polymer Physics - Biophysics
- Dielectric spectroscopy, Scattering techniques, Rheology
Selected Publications:
[2] K. Mpoukouvalas, G. Floudas, G. Williams "Origin of the α-, β-, (αβ)- and slow dielectric processes in poly(ethyl methacrylate)" Macromolecules 41, 1552, 2009.
[3] M.M. Elmahdy, et al. "Slow kinetics of phase transformation in dipole functionalized discotic liquid crystals" J. Chem. Phys. 42, 5709, 2009.
[4] C. Grigoriadis et al. "Negative thermal expansion in discotic liquid crystals of nanographenes", Adv. Mater. in press, 2009.
[5] M.M. Elmahdy, et al. "Origin of the complex molecular dynamics in functionalized discotic liquid crystals" Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 107801, 2008.
[6] M.M. Elmahdy, et al. "Self-assembly, molecular dynamics and kinetics of structure formation in dipole functionalized discotic liquid crystals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 5311, 2008.
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