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Civil Engineer, expert in computational mechanics and optimization, with published results including applications of machine learning for the solution of direct and inverse problems, topology optimization and smart piezocomposites. http://www.comeco.tuc.gr

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Mechanical engineer, expert in modelling and simulation of computational chains for supporting the product design, manufacturing and quality prediction of lightweight structures, adaptation of manufacturing process sequences including their physical phenomena into a multi-stage structural simulation chain by means of the finite element analysis, current main research interests are additive manufacturing, joining processes, crash simulation, product design and development, topology optimization.

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Ioannis Ntintakis is a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, of the Hellenic Mediterranean University since January 2019 on the position of Lecturer. From September 2010 until January 2019, he was a member of the Wood and Furniture Design & Technology Department of Technological Education Institute of Thessaly on the position of Lecturer. Ioannis Ntintakis awarded the title of Industrial Design Engineer at Technological Education Institute of West Macedonia in 2001. He holds a master’s degree (MSc) in Advanced Manufacturing Systems from Kingston University (UK) in 2006. He has a PhD degree in topology optimization for additive manufacturing from Technical University of Crete. He is a co-author in two books, and he is an author of seventeen articles in journals with judges. From 2001 to 2010 he has professional experience in the R&D departments of Greek industrial enterprises. His current main research interests are additive manufacturing, lightweight structures, topology optimization, homogenization, industrial design, and CAD/CAM systems.

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Nikos Karathanasopoulos is interested in the mechanics and design of advanced materials and structures. He has a master's in Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials from UC Berkeley and a PhD from ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His research interests include the analysis, simulation, and design of advanced materials commonly known as «metamaterials» with extra-ordinary mechanical and functional attributes, as well as the use of artificial intelligence in engineering.

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Dr. Demetris has more than ten years of experience in product development, design, and research. His background in engineering and academia offers a unique combination of design thinking and pragmatic strategy that addresses complex strategic business and product problems within a defined framework. His research interests are focused on the computational modeling with finite elements of nanoindentation on a variety of emerging materials systems like auxetics, thin film systems, super-hard materials and bulk metallic glasses. His PhD research work, formulated new indentation-based relationships through computational analysis and developed a new framework for experimental protocols and design-for-experiment strategies toward material optimization.

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Nikolaos Kladovasilakis is a Ph. D candidate at International Hellenic University and an associate researcher at the Information Technologies Institute of Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. He is also working as a contracted mechanical designer and engineer at robotic industry. His research mainly focuses on additive manufacturing, development of advanced mechanical structures, finite element analysis (FEA) and topology optimization processes.