Professor

Nektarios Vidakis

Nektarios Vidakis holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineer (1993) and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (1997) both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As part of his professional career he has been  an engineer and technical consultant in several industrial settings and a member of many boards of directors.

Professor

Manolis Kavoussanos

tel: 2810-379739

Email: mkavussa@hmu.gr

Studies
1983: BSc Mechanical Engineering, NTUA
1988: MSc in Robotics and Industrial Automation, Imperial College
1999: PhD, Technical University of Crete

Professor

Georgios Kavoulakis

Tel: 2810 – 379386

E-mail: kavoulak@hmu.gr

Studies
1990: BSc in Physics, University of Crete
1993: MSc in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
1996: PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Professor

Dimitris Katsaprakakis

Studies
1997: BSc Mechanical Engineering, NTUA
2007: PhD, NTUA

Assistant Professor

Konstantinos Condaxakis

Studies
1984: BEng Mechanical Engineering, TEI of Crete
1992: Mechanical Engineering, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. France
2001: PhD, Université de la Rochelle, France

Lecturer

Myron Moniakis

Myron Moniakis holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras (1982) and an MSc from HOU (2003). As part of his professional career, he was a designer of public and private building and industrial facilities for fifteen years, while he was employed under contracts as a designer and supervising engineer in the technical services of the Heraklion Port Authority S.A. and TEI of Crete.

Assistant Professor

Amalia Moutsopoulou

Amalia Moutsopoulou holds a PhD in Production Engineering and Management in the field of Production Systems, of the Department of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete. The title of her PhD thesis is “Control of Smart Structures”. In addition, she holds a Master’s Degree from the Department of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete.

Lecturer

Ioannis Ntintakis

Studies
2001: BEng Industrial Engineering Design, TEI of Western Macedonia
2006: MSc in Advanced Mechanical and Manufacturing Systems, Kingston University
2022: PhD, Technical University of Crete 

Assistant Professor

Nikolaos Papadakis

Studies
1997: MEng Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic School, AUTh
1998: Msc in Manufacturing System Engineering, University of Warwick
2002: PhD, University of Warwick

Associate Professor

Markos Petousis

Studies
1997: MEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Patras
2001: MSc in Production Systems, Technical University of Crete
2007: PhD, Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete

Associate Professor

Panagiotis (Panos) Polygerinos

Email: polygerinos@hmu.gr

Studies
2006: BEng Mechanical Engineering, TEI of Crete
2007: MSc in Mechatronics, King’s College London, University of London
2011: PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics), King’s College London

Professor

Nikolaos Sakkas

In my early years I grew up in the UK, in London and Liverpool, where I attended primary school during the Beatles era. Upon my return to Greece, I spent most of my school years at the Evangelical School of Nea Smyrni and Graduated from the 10th school in Ampelokipoi (in 1977).

Associate Professor

Ioannis Smyrnakis

E-mail: smyrnaki@hmu.gr

Studies
1987: ΒΑ Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
1991: MΑ, Columbia University, NY, USA
1992: MPhil, Columbia University, NY, USA
1994: PhD,  Columbia University, NY, USA

Assistant Professor

Konstantinos Tzirakis

Dr. Konstantinos Tzirakis holds a Mechanical Engineer diploma (Graduate of the School of Mechanical Engineering, NTUA) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Buffalo. He has more than 15 years of research experience in an extended number of research projects, funded by the Greek State, the European Union (SNF, KRIPIS, ESA) and the American National Science Foundation (NSF).

Associate Professor

Lazaros Tzounis

E-mail: tzounis@hmu.gr

Studies

2010: MEng Materials Enginnering, University of Ioannina Πανεπιστήμιο 
2014: PhD, Technical University of Dresden, Germany 

Assistant Professor

Ioannis Fasoulas

Ioannis Fasoulas holds an Engineering diploma from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH 1999), as well as a Doctorate of Engineering from the same department (A.U.Th. 2004). Since 2000 he is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Professor

Dimitris Chistakis

Christakis Dimitris is a Mechanical Engineer, Professor at H.M.U. and the Director of the Laboratory of Wind Energy and Energy Systems Synthesis of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches Design, Construction and Management of Systems that convert mild and renewable forms of energy into mechanical and electrical energy.

Professor

Achilleas Vairis

(Associate Faculty Member from the University of West Attica)

MEMBER OF THE H.M.U. UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER

Studis
1988: MEng Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol
1997: PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol

Visiting Professor

Magnus Ögren

Magnus Ögren is an associate professor of mathematics in engineering physics. He has experience in teaching various subjects in mathematics and physics. His research is directed to mathematical physics and computational physics.