NIKOLAOS KAMPANIS
Nikolaos A. Kampanis is Research Director at FORTH and Head of the Coastal & Marine Research Laboratory, of the Institute of Applied Mathematics. His research interests include High Performance Computing and numerical modeling (Computational fluid dynamics with applications in hydrodynamics, fluid-solid & air-sea interaction, operational oceanography & meteorology, marine pollution modeling, environmental risk assessment, incompressible biomedical & engineering flows) and Data analytics (collection from field observations, processing and archiving of big data & assimilation). He has been a visiting researcher at INRIA Research Centers in France, SACLANT, Italy, and has taught at the Mathematical Department of the University of Crete and the Department of Sciences of the Technical University of Crete, for many years. He has participated in numerous advisory committees of Postgraduate Studies and Doctoral Theses. He has more than 120 publications in widely read scientific journals and proceedings of conferences, monographs. He participates and coordinates several European and national research programs. He also supervises services provided by the Coastal & Marine Research Laboratory (e.g. studies on the protection of the coastal areas against erosion and coastal regeneration, etc.) to the public (regional and local) administration and private stakeholders. He acts as consultant to the regional government and the decentralized administration of Crete on issues related to the protection and enhancement of coastal natural environment and cultural heritage.