PolyHub Affiliates

The current alphabetized list (by surname) of all PolyHub affiliates is presented below, along with a link to the research group homepage of each individual. Full contact information for each affiliate may be found at the linked URL.

Orestis Alexiadis Senior Research Associate at the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes in Patras, Greece.

Alexandros Anastasiou Research Assistant at the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes in Patras, Greece.

Chunggi Baig is Assistant Professor in the School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering UNIST in Ulsan, South Korea. He performs computationally demanding nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and nonequilibrium Monte Carlo atomistic simulations of polymeric liquids, including linear, branched, star-shaped, and H-shaped polymer architectures.

Kostas Daoulas is a Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. He has helped to develop novel simulation algorithms for computing polymer configurations and material properties, such as the Single-Chain in Mean-Field techinique, and applied them to systems of inhomogeneous copolymers/subtrates.

Brian Edwards is Professor and Associate Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK). His areas of expertise lie in theoretical modeling of polymeric liquids and in atomistic and multiscale simulation of flowing polymers. His research also focuses on the application of the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to modeling and and simulation of transport phenomena in other areas of soft condensed matter physics, including liquid crystals, bulk metallic glasses, and diblock and triblock copolymer films.

Vagelis Harmandaris is currently Assitant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Univesrity of Crete in Greece. His research is primarily aimed at modeling and high-performance simulations of complex fluids, such as molecular dynamics of polystyrenes, polyethylenes, and other homopolymer systems.

Nikos Karayiannis is Research Associate in the Chemical and Industrial Engineering Department at the Polytechnic University of Madrid in Spain. His research interests include simulation studies of structure and dynamics of synthetic and biological polymer systems through hierarchical modeling approaches.

Jun Mo Kim is a Senior Research Assistant in the School of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering UNIST in Ulsan, South Korea. He performs large-scale nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric liquids, focusing on single-molecule dynamics and topological characteristics under flow.

Bamin Khomami is Armour T. Granger and Alvin & Sally Beaman Distinguished Professor and Head, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UTK. His ongoing research is focused on the dynamics of complex fluids including polymeric and biological fluids, fiber suspensions, and colloidal systems, aerosol based processing of nano-structured particles and coatings, and tailored nano-emulsions for drug delivery and personalized medicine.

Vlasis Mavrantzas is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Patras in Greece and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes. His research includes atomistic equilibrium and nonequilibrium Monte Carlo simulation of flowing polymeric liquids, molecular dynamics simulation of coarse-grained macromolecular models, statistical mechanics of linear, H-shaped, and star-shaped poymers, and the application of the theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to dynamic polymeric systems.

Majid Mosayebi is Research Associate at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at University of Oxford.

Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti is a research assistant in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His research project studies nonequilibrium polymer dynamics of highly entangled fluids.

Hans Christian Öttinger is Professor and head of the Institute of Polymer Physics in the Department of Materials Science at ETH. His research group is engaged in many aspects of theroretical polymer dynamics research, such as rheology and thermodynamics of polymer solutions and melts, multiscale dynamics simulations of polymeric liquids undergoing flow, nonequiibrium thermodynamics of complex fluids and glasses, and statistical physics of macromolecular materials composed of atomistic or coarse-grained constituent particles.

Gerald Ragghianti is Chief Technology Officer and Administrator of PolyHub. He is a senior computer services technician at UTK, with a M.S. degree in Physics. He has extensive experience building, maintaining, and administering large-scale clusters, and in software and middleware administration and configuration. He has also been extensively involved in the development of the infrastructure to support the Compact Muon Solenoid project within the Open Science Grid at UTK.

Travis Russell is a research assistant in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His research project involves self-consistent field simulations of potential membrane materials for fuel cell and battery applications.

Michelle Aranha is a research assistant in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His research project involves self-consistent field simulations of potential membrane materials for fuel cell and battery applications.

Bo Zhang is a research assistant in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His research project involves self-consistent field simulations of potential membrane materials for fuel cell and battery applications.

Jay Schieber is Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Molecular Study of Condensed Soft Matter at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Prof. Schieber's research group studies primarily the physical properties of complex fluids, including polymers, liquid crystals, and self-assembled surfactants. The research is devoted to the development of models to predict the relaxation, rheology, diffusion, and optical properties of complex fluids in flow and in dynamic equilibrium. This theoretical work is complemented by experimentation to measure the physical properties of these complex fluids, such as Forced Rayleigh Light Scattering.

Eric Shaqfeh is Professor of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests involve transport processes associated with materials processing from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. These include the occurrence of elastic instabilities in polymer flows, transport in fiber suspensions, turbulent drag reduction, micro-fluidic devices, and the dynamics of individual DNA molecules in solution undergoing flow.

Stefan Spanier is Assistant Professor of Physics at UTK. He is a node director on the Open Science Grid, Compact Muon Solenoid project. He expertise is in the development and implementation of our client interfaces, data storage and cataloging, authentification certification, etc.

Pavlos Stephanou is a Research Assistant in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Patras, Greece, and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes. He is currently a visiting researcher in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His research efforts are directed at theoretical modeling of entangled polymeric liquids, both at equilibrium and under flow conditions.

Nikos Stratikis Research Assistant at the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes in Patras, Greece.

Georgia Tsolou Senior Research Associate at the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes in Patras, Greece. Her research is directed at several projects in the area of molecular theory and simulation, such as molecular dynamics simulation of the temperature and pressure dependencies of the Rouse modes and the dynamical structure factor in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems.

Antigoni Theodoratou Research Assistant at the Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas and the Institute of Chemical Engineering & High Temperature Chemical Processes in Patras, Greece.

David Venerus is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Center of Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His research interests involve transport processes associated with heat conduction in polymeric fluids undergoing flow processes and classical rheology of complex fluids.