BIO of Elias Aifantis

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Elias C. Aifantis graduated with a Diploma from National Technical University of Athens in 1973 and with a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign in 1976, a visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1980 and a full Professor at the Michigan Technological University in 1982. Currently he is an Emeritus Professor of Mechanics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece and Michigan Technological University/USA, as well as Mercator fellow at Friedrich-Alexander University/Germany and a Distinguished Professor at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture/China. Formerly, he has also been a Distinguished Faculty Advisor at King Abdulaziz University/Saudi Arabia, Distinguished Visiting Expert at ITMO University/Russia and Southwest Jiaotong University/China, as well as MegaGrant Director at Togliatti State University/Russia. He has promoted highly interdisciplinary work in mechanics of materials by bringing into the field of solid mechanics ideas from diffusion theory, chemical reactions, and nonlinear physics. He has coined the terms dislocation patterning, material instabilities, gradient plasticity/elasticity, chemo/nanomechanics, and pioneered internal length gradient (ILG) theories in these fields. Currently, he is extending the ILG framework to revisit electromagnetism and Maxwell’s equations, as well as gravitation and Newton’s Law. He has published over 339 articles and received about 12,609 citations with 55 h-index (Scopus); 11,730 citations with 54 h-index (Web of Science); 17,860 citations with 66 h-index (Google Scholar). He is included in the ISI Web of knowledge list of the world’s most highly cited authors in engineering.

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BIO of Avraam Konstantinidis

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Avraam A. Konstantinidis received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1996 as well as his PhD in 2000 (with Prof. E.C. Aifantis as his advisor), respectively, from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). In 2003 he joined the General Department of AUTh, as a Lecturer and later as an Assistant Professor, and he is currently an Associate Professor of the Civil Engineering Department of AUTh and also acts as the Director of the Laboratory of Engineering Mechanics of AUTh (http://etem.civil.auth.gr/en/). His research interests involve non-local modeling of material behavior at various scales (macro-, micro- and nano-scale), multiscale simulations, experiments for material characterization at the micro- and nano-scale, as well as snow avalanches/landslides modeling. He has published over 40 journals, as well as 15 proceedings articles, and his work has received ~280 citations and an h-index of 10 (SCOPUS).

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BIO of George Efremidis

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George Th. Efremidis received his Degree in Geology in 1990 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), his MSc in 1997 from the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and his PhD in 2002 (with Prof. E.C. Aifantis as his advisor) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). In 2013 he joined the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly (UTH), as a Lecturer, and he is currently an Assistant Professor of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Division of the Civil Engineering Department of UTH (https://geo.civ.uth.gr/index.php/en/). His research interests involve non-local modeling of mechanical behavior of intact rocks and rock masses, size effects and effects of the microstructural heterogeneity, geostatic stresses, underground constructions, as well as landslides modeling and geohazards. He has published 15 journal papers and 20 proceedings articles, and his work has received ~90 citations and an h-index of 5 (Google Scholar).

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