Curriculum Vitae of  Dr. George Voyatzis Address:          Department of Physics (Bld. School of Sciences – Aristotle University)                         GR 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece Tel:                  +30-2310-998060 E-mail: voyatzis@auth.gr Home Page:    http://users.auth.gr/voyatzis Date of birth:   1965

Organization : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR  (AUTh)

Current Position : Associate Professor

Academic Qualifications :

• PhD in Physics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1993)

• Diploma in Physics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1987) 

Career History

2015-        : Associate professor  in  Physics Department, AUTh

2007-2015: Assistant professor in  Physics Department, AUTh (section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics).

2000-2007: Lecturer in Physics Department, AUTh (section of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics).

1998-2000: Teacher of Informatics in High School Education.

1995-1998: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Informatics (AUTh) – Digital image processing using chaos.

Course coordination/Teaching 

• Undergraduate Courses in Differential Equations, Theoretical Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics
• Postgraduate Courses in  “Computational Astrodynamics”, “Simulation of Chaotic systems”, “Programming Tools”

· Supervisor of two PhD thesis, 13 Diploma Theses of MSc students of Computational Physics, 27 Diploma Theses of Bachelor students in Physics Department

Books (in Greek)

• G. Voyatzis, G. Bozis and D. Papadopoulos, Differential Equations with Applications, Kleidarithmos, 2012. 

• G. Voyatzis and E. Meletlidou, “An Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems”, Kallipos, 2015

Research Experience:

Main Research topics of interest:

• Celestial Mechanics (orbital dynamics of planets, satellites and small bodies),

• Computation of periodic orbits and orbital stability of celestial bodies.

• Methods for distinguishing between order and chaos,

• Applications of dynamical systems in Physics and Digital Image processing.

Research Grants / Principal Investigator

• 2005 – 2007 “Computational Algorithms of high accuracy and applications in chaotic systems” (P.I.), Pythagoras II – Greek Ministry of Education

• 2012 – 2013 “Dynamical mechanisms of planet injection and orphan planets”, AUTh Research Committee (P.I.).

Participation in : 9 research projects (1991-2015) 

Current Project Involvement : STARDUST-R network

Publications:

• 48 papers in refereed International scientific journals

• 19 referred papers in Proceedings of international meetings

• 17 papers in proceedings of local meetings

Citations (excluding self-citations) : ~ 800 (from Scopus database)

Participation in 24 International Conferences and 26 local meetings

Member of organizing committees for 5 meetings

Reviewer in ~10 International Scientific Journals

Experience in Computations:

•   Programming in C++, MFC, OpenGL, Mathematica

•   Numerical simulations of dynamical systems

•   Graphic applications for educational purposes.

Current Administration Activities

• Vice head of the Physics Department

• Head of the supervision committee of the education program in Physics Department

• Supervisor of the Computer Lab of the Postgraduate programs Computational Physics

• Member of the Committee of the Kalandra University Camp of AUTh

• Member of the Committee of the University Gym  of AUTh

Member of the Hellenic Astronomical Society