Vangelis Harmandaris is Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, and affiliated researcher at the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (IACM/FORTH). He is also Professor and ERA-Chair at “The Cyprus Institute” (CyI) in “Modelling and Simulation for Engineering Applications”. He got his diploma and PhD from the Chemical Engineering department in the University of Patras, Greece. Then, he was post-doctoral fellow and research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. In 2009 he joined, as Assistant Professor, the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, where he is now full Professor. Since 2010 he is also collaborating researcher in the “Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics”, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas.
His research interests concern on the development of mathematical and computational multi-scale methodologies for complex molecular systems and materials of scientific and technological interest. He leads the group of “Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Molecular Systems” (MACOMMS) at the University of Crete/FORTH, and the SimEA group at the CyI.
He has been the author of more than 90 papers in refereed journals, 1 book, 3 chapters in books, and about 100 in refereed, and non-refereed, conference proceedings. His work has been presented more than 150 times (70 invited) in international conferences and academic and industrial institutions. As of June 2021, his articles have received (ISI, Web of Science) 3515 total citations (3082 non-self citations). His h-index is 31. He has been a Reviewer for a large number of International Journals, for the European Union, and for various institutions among which the National Science Foundation (USA), the European Science Foundation, and the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). He has also been the Organizer of more than 20 International workshops and conferences.