• Nijenborgh4, Gebouw 5113, ruimte 0042

    9747 AG Groningen

    Netherlands

Persoonlijk profiel

Speerpunten

Trained as a mechanical engineer, Prof. dr. A.I. Vakis is a specialist in the field of tribology –the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion– and a generalist performing and leading award-winning research on renewable energy and advanced manufacturing. He has published on nanoscale contacts at the head-disk interface of hard disk drives, and investigated fundamental aspects of the nature of contact at the atomic level. His group has expertise on computational methods including molecular dynamics and finite elements, and develops multi-physics models that can be used, for example, to account for tribological effects at critical interfaces in engineering systems. The bulk of research currently performed by the group focuses on offshore renewable energy harvesting and storage technologies. Projects in this direction include wave energy, where the group investigates dense arrays of wave energy converters, and energy storage, were the group develops novel underwater pumped hydro storage together with spin-off company Ocean Grazer BV. Computational fluid dynamics and the boundary element method are used to study fluid-structure interaction, hydrodynamics and hydraulics, while experimental measurements on scale prototypes are used to validate models. To this end, the group manages experimental facilities that include, among others, a wave tank and hydraulic systems such as a scale prototype of the power take-off system for wave energy. Prof. dr. Vakis has also worked on advanced manufacturing in collaboration with industry, for example, to develop digital twins of forming processes, while he also collaborates closely with academic partners on topics ranging from computational fluid dynamics to geomechanics.

Expertise gerelateerd aan duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen van de VN

In 2015 stemden de VN-lidstaten in met 17 wereldwijde duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen (Sustainable Development Goals, SDG's) om armoede te beëindigen, de planeet te beschermen en voor iedereen welvaart te garanderen. Het werk van deze persoon draagt bij aan de volgende duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstelling(en):

  • SDG 3 – Goede gezondheid en welzijn
  • SDG 7 – Betaalbare en schone energie
  • SDG 9 – Industrie, innovatie en infrastructuur
  • SDG 12 – Verantwoordelijke consumptie en productie
  • SDG 17 - Partnerschap om de doelen te bereiken

Opleiding / Academische kwalificatie

Mechanical Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

jun.-2008dec.-2011

Mechanical Engineering, MSc, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

sep.-2005mei-2008

Mechanical Engineering, BSc, New Jersey Institute of Technology

sep.-2002mei-2005

Externe posities

Program Director of MSc Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), University of Groningen, Groningen

sep.-2020 → …

Academic Fellow, Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute

jul.-2020 → …

Chair of CMME research group, University of Groningen, Groningen

mei-2019 → …

Co-founder & Scientific Advisor, Ocean Grazer B.V.

1-jun.-2018 → …

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