bio
general information
| full name | Alexandros Kontogiannis |
| position | EPSRC research fellow in fluid dynamics @ University of Cambridge |
| address | CUED, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK |
| languages | English, French, Greek |
education & research
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2023 - NOW EPSRC research fellow in fluid dynamics
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Learning digital twins of flows from noisy and sparse flow-MRI data
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2019-2023 PhD
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Inverse problems in fluid dynamics for magnetic resonance velocimetry
- modules:
- probabilistic machine learning, flow instability
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2017-2019 Graduate researcher
Polytechnique Montréal, Canada - Aerodynamic design optimization in atmospheric icing conditions
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2017 Research assistant
ONERA, Multiphysics department for energy (DMPE), Toulouse, France - Modelling of ice accretion on aircraft wings and development of new integral boundary layer models and wall functions for ice-roughened surfaces
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2011-2017 Diploma
University of Patras, Greece - Viscous-inviscid fluid-structure interaction method for the analysis of multielement morphing airfoils
- specialisation:
- fluid dynamics (theory & numerics), aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, finite element methods, numerical analysis
awards and grants
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2021 - ASME Fluids Engineering Division Graduate Student Scholar Award
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2018 - Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) Award for Top Graduate Students
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2017 - Award of Academic Excellence by the Limmat Foundation of Zurich
- A. Mentzelopoulos Scholarship for Post-Graduate studies in U.S.A and Canada
- Graduated 3rd with highest honors from Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics Department of University of Patras, Greece
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2016 - 3rd Place in ActInSpace CNES/ESA/AIRBUS Competition
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2015 - 2nd Place for Design in Design-Build-Fly Aeronautical Competition
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2012 - Greek State Scholarship Foundation Award for High Student Performance (top 1%)
invited talks
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Feb 2023 Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows @ University of Cambridge - Inverse problems in fluid dynamics for enhanced velocimetry
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Nov 2023 APS DFD 2023 - Fluid Dynamics in Clinical Imaging (Minisymposium) - Learning Bayesian digital twins of flows from PC-MRI data
teaching
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2020-2023 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom - Eng. Tripos Part IIA, 3A1 Fluid Mechanics I (Tutorial)
- Eng. Tripos Part IIA Project, SA1: Aircraft Wing Analysis (Lab demonstrator)
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2014-2015 ATLAS Aero Group, University of Patras, Greece - Lecture series in low-speed aerodynamics for RPV design
academic community service
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journal article reviews
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press)
- Wind Energy (Wiley)
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conference session chair
- Novel Techniques in Fluid Mechanics & Data Processing/Algorithms in Fluid Measurements @ ASME FEDSM 2022
academic interests
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fluid dynamics
- cardiovascular and porous media flows
- aerodynamics, boundary layer theory, viscous-inviscid interaction methods
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applied mathematics
- inverse problems, Bayesian & variational regularisation, inference with uncertainty estimation
- Navier-Stokes initial and boundary value problems, partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, calculus of variations, optimization
- mathematical foundations of image processing
- numerical analysis, finite element methods
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magnetic resonance velocimetry
- mathematical methods and design of optimal sampling patterns
affiliations
- American Physical Society (APS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)