Professor Vasileios Koutsos

Professor and Deputy Head of Research Institute

Telephone

+44(0)131 6508704

Location

1.132 Sanderson Building

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Engineering Discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Research Institutes

Materials and Processes
Research Publications
Prof Vasileios Koutsos

Vasileios Koutsos, FInstP, FIMMM, CEng MIMechE, FHEA,  is a Professor (Chair in Soft Materials and Surfaces) with the Institute for Materials and Processes, in the School of Engineering. Formerly a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics in Collège de France (Paris, France, 1998-2000), he holds a BSc in Physics (Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992) and a PhD in Polymer Science (Chemistry Department & Materials Science Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997).

  • Ph.D. in Polymer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997
  • B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1992

  • Chartered Engineer and Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, CEng MIMechE
  • Fellow, Institute of Physics, FInstP
  • Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, FIMMM
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy, FHEA

Current:

  • Course Organiser of Industrial/European Placement 4 (MEng)
  • Course Organiser of Professional Issues for Mechanical Engineers 3 (BEng/MEng)
  • Final Year Mechanical Engineering Individual Project Supervision (BEng/MEng)
  • Industrial/European Placement Supervision (MEng)
  • Digital Design and Manufacture (DDM) M.Sc. Project Supervision

Major Past Teaching:

  • Surface Engineering and Coatings 5
  • Polymers and Composite Materials 4
  • Polymer Science and Engineering 5
  • Dynamics 4
  • Advanced Materials 5
  • Nanotechnology 5
  • Thermodynamics 2
  • Mechanical Engineering 2nd Year Laboratory; 12 experiments in dynamics, thermodynamics, fluids, and structures

 

  • Polymers, Complex Fluids, and Soft Condensed Matter
  • Surfaces and Interfaces
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Composites and Nanocomposites
  • Recycling and Sustainability
  • Adhesion and Tribology
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Thin Films and Coatings
  • Materials for Energy
  • Materials for Biomedical Applications

  • Self Assembly of Polymers and Nanoparticles on Surfaces
  • Surface Metrology and Characterisation
  • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
  • Soft Coatings
  • Elastomers and gels
  • Micro/nanomechanics
  • Wettability of Surfaces, Wetting, Dewetting
  • Additive manufacturing 
  • Electrospinning