|  | Professional Experience 2009 – Present Head of the Department
 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technological Institute of Larissa
 
 2007 – Present Associate Professor
 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technological Institute of Larissa
 Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery
 
 2006 – 2008 Mechanical Engineer at TEMKA S.A.
 Programming of Production, Programming of Machines (Messer, Ficep, Kaltenbach, Vernet, e.t.c.), Responsible for the Assembly and Welding Dept. Director of Maintenance
 Working instructions for all the CNC machines, Preventive Maintenance Schedule
 Selected Projects: CERN - Lifting Beam, SIDMA- Steel Plant, Main Field Mine Belt
 Conveyor Β=1800 Modification, Manufacturing of Drive Heads and Return Stations of Belt
 conveyors, Wet Flue Gas Desulphurization of Megalopolis PPC - SES Unit III
 Special Projects: Increasing the oxyfuel cutting speed (25%), Welding of 230mm plate
 (supports for the Hydroelectric Power Plant H.E.P. ILARION)
 
 2005 – 2006 Mechanical Engineer at MIRTEC S.A.
 MIRTEC (Metallurgical Industrial Research & Technological Development Center)
 Director of the R & D Dept.
 
 2004 – present Lecturer, Instructor (P.D. 407/80)
 University of Thessaly, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 Teaching: Thermal Process Equipment, Heat Transfer II & Solar Energy
 
 2004 – 2005 Mechanical Engineer at VIOHALCO Group
 Steel & Electromechanical Constructions
 Site Manager (25 employees)
 
 2003 – present Research Associate
 University of Thessaly, Laboratory of Transport Processes & Process Equipment
 Separation processes equipment & Heat Exchanger Design
 Design of Biomass Furnace for charcoal production
 Operating and Manufacturing of Steam Boilers and Cooling Towers
 Aerospace Applications of Magnesium Alloys, AEROMAG
 
 2001 – 2003 Post-doctoral Associate
 Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
 Dr. M ichael Vlachogiannis «Experimental Studies on the Physics and Technology of Polymer», Drag-Reduction, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Microsystems Technology Office, Friction Drag Technologies DARPA Order No. K042/05/24, Issued by DARPA/CMO under Contract MDA972-01-C-0029, (3/19/2001 to 12/18/2003)
 
 1996 – 2001 Research and Teaching Assistant
 University of Thessaly, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 Desalination by mechanical compression of humid air
 Characterization of trapped hydrogen in exfoliation corroded aluminum alloy 2024
 
 1995 Internship
 STALCO S.A (Mechanical Construction Company), 1 month
 
 1993 – 1996 Part Time (during the undergraduate studies)
 MIRTEC (Metallurgical Industrial Research & Technological Development Center)
 
 1992 Internship
 Nissan (Teocar) 3 months, Internship
 
 Education
 2001-2003 Post-Doctoral Associate
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept of Chemical Engineering
 “Polymer Drag Reduction on Turbulence”, Supervisor: Dr. T.J. Hanratty,
 
 1996 – 2001 Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 GPA: Excellent
 University of Thessaly, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 “Experimental Investigation of the film flow along a flat and a corrugated wall”
 Supervisor: Dr. Vasilis Bontozoglou
 
 1991-1996 B.S. in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 GPA: 8.77/10 (1st)
 University of Thessaly, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
 “Experimental Study of Laser Welds”, Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haidemenopoulos
 Awards & Honors
 
 1996 National Scholarship Foundation of Greece,
 Best Undergraduate ranking: Overall GPA: 8.77/10
 1998 National Scholarship Foundation of Greece,
 1997-2000, full PhD funding, Panhellenic Examination in 4 courses. Overall GPA: 15.27/20 (1st)
 2003 Honored as “Distinguished New Scientist” from the Greek Department of Defense (7/3/2003)
 2004 National Scholarship Foundation of Greece, Post-Doctoral Scholarship
 
 COMPUTING SKILLS
 Operating systems: Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000,XP), UNIX, DOS
 Programming: Fortran, Visual Basic, Mathematica, MatLab, C++
 Special: Data Acquisition and analysis, Digital Image Processing
 Engineering: MS Office, AutoCad, CSIA,
 
 RESEARCH
 Selected Publications in Referred Journals
 M. Vlachogiannis, A.D. Zervaki & G. N. Haidemenopoulos, 1998 A Macro – and Micro – Structural Study of Laser Welds in D36 Ship Steel, Tech. Chron. Sci. J. TGG, V, No 1-2.
 
 M. Vlachogiannis, V. Bontozoglou, Ch. Georgalas & G. Litinas 1999 Desalination by mechanical compression of humid air. Desalination, 122, 35-42.
 
 M. Vlachogiannis & V. Bontozoglou 2001 Observations of solitary wave dynamics of film flows. J. Fluid Mech., 435, 191-215.
 
 M. Vlachogiannis & V. Bontozoglou 2002 Experiments on laminar film flow along a corrugated wall. J. Fluid Mech., 457, 133-156.
 
 N. Malamataris, M. Vlachogiannis & V. Bontozoglou 2002 Solitary waves on inclined films: Flow structure and binary interactions. Phys. Fluids, 14, 1082-1094.
 
 M. Vlachogiannis, M.W. Liberatore, A.J. McHugh & T.J. Hanratty 2003 Effectiveness of a Drag Reducing Polymer: Relation to Molecular Weight Distribution and Structuring. Phys Fluids, 15 (12), 3786-3794.
 
 M. Vlachogiannis & T.J. Hanratty 2004 Influence of wavy structured surfaces and polymer aggregation on drag reduction. Exps. Fluids, 36 (5), 685 – 700
 
 S. Baik, M. Vlachogiannis and T.J. Hanratty 2005 Use of particle image velocimetry to study heterogeneous drag reduction Exps. Fluids, 39 (4): 637-650
 
 K. Argyriadi, M. Vlachogiannis and V. Bontozoglou 2006 Experimental study of inclined film flow along periodic corrugations: The effect of wall steepness. Phys. Fluids, 18 (1), 1082-1094.
 
 
 Tzotzi C., Bontozoglou V., Andritsos N. and Vlachogiannis M  Effect of Fluid Properties on Flow Patterns in Two-Phase Gas−Liquid Flow in Horizontal and Downward Pipes, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., DOI: 10.1021/ie100239v, June 2, 2010M. Vlachogiannis, A. Samandas, V. Leontidis, and V. Bontozoglou 2010 Effect of channel width on the primary instability of inclined film flow, Phys. Fluids 22, 012106 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3294884 
 V. Leontidis, J. Vatteville, M. Vlachogiannis, N. Andritsos and V. Bontozoglou 2010 Nominally two-dimensional waves in inclined film flow in channels of finite width, Phys. Fluids 22, 012106 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3294884
 
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