Dr Neophytou is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) Laboratory.

She completed her undergraduate studies (BA-Honours and MEng degrees) at Cambridge University (UK) at the Department of Engineering (Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics Division) on a full-expense Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship (1993-97). During her undergraduate studies she has worked at the Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre (Cambridge, UK) and Schlumberger-Dowell Research and Production Center (Paris, France) for which she has received the European Grant Award "Women in Technology". She has received her MA and PhD degrees (2002) in the area of Environmental Fluid Dynamics from Cambridge University (UK) on academic and industrial scholarships, while during 2003-2005, she continued at Cambridge University as a post-doctoral research associate under an EPSRC (UK) grant to design and model a tracer release experiment in London for urban air pollution dispersion studies.

She joined the University of Cyprus as Lecturer in 2005 and since then, she has attracted more than a million euros of external funding to the EFM lab. Following a recently-approved proposal, the EFM lab is leading a partnership with Cambridge University (UK) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) on a Sustainable Built Environment Initiative. During the Spring Semester 2009, she has been a UNESCO Visiting Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory (US).

• Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (of environmental flows, in particular urban wind flow)
• Atmospheric turbulence and pollution dispersion modeling
• Model performace evaluation
• Modelling of Chemically-Reacting turbulent flows
• Buoyancy-driven flows
• Thermofluid Dynamics of Buildings and Energy efficiency of the Built Environment (Mass and Heat Transfer)
• Sustainable and bioclimatic building design

2011

1. Neophytou, Gowardan, Brown, 2011. An inter-comparison of three urban wind models using the Oklahoma City Joint Urban 2003 wind field measurements. International Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Volume 99, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 357-368

2. Fokaides, Maxoulis, Panayiotou, Neophytou, Kalogirou. Comparison between measured and calculated energy performance for dwellings in a summer dominant environment. International Journal of Energy and Buildings, Volume 43, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 3099-3105

2010

3. Martin, G. Nickless, Price, Britter, Neophytou, Cheng , Robins, Dobre, Belcher, Barlow, Tomlin, Smalley, Tate, Colvile, Arnold, Shallcross (2010). Urban tracer dispersion experiment in London (DAPPLE) 2003: field study and comparison with empirical prediction. Atmospheric Science Letters (Royal Meteorological Society), Volume 11, Issue 4, pp 241-248.

4. Martin, Price, White, Nickless, Petersson, Britter, Robins, Belcher, Barlow, Neophytou, Arnold, Tomlin, Smalley,Shallcross (2010). Urban tracer dispersion experiments during the second DAPPLE field campaign in London 2004, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 44, Issue 25, August 2010, Pages 3043-3052.

5. Neophytou,Pourgouri,Kanellopoulos,Petrou, Ioannou, Georgiou, Alexandrou (2010). Determination of the rheological parameters of self-compacting concrete matrix using slump flow test. Appl. Rheol. 20:6 (2010) 62402

6. Panagiotou, Kalogirou, Florides, Maxoulis, Papadopoulos, Neophytou, Fokaides, Georgiou, Symeou, Giorgakis (2010). The characteristics and the energy behaviour of the residential building stock of Cyprus in view of Directive 2002/91/EC, Energy and Buildings, Volume 42, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 2083-2089

2009

7. Wood, C. R., Arnold, S. J., Balogun, A. A., Barlow, J. F., Belcher, S. E., Britter, R. E., Cheng, H., Dobre, A., Lingard, J. J. N., Martin, D., Neophytou, M. K., Petersson, F. K., Robins, A. G., Shallcross, D. E., Smalley, R. J., Tate, J. E., Tomlin, A. S. and White, I. R. (2009) Dispersion Experiments in Central London: The 2007 DAPPLE project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90 (7). pp. 955-970. ISSN 1520-0477

8. Shallcross, D. E., Martin, D., Price, C. S., Nickless, G., White, I. R., Petersson, F., Britter, R. E., Neophytou, M. K., Tate, J. E., Tomlin, A. S., Belcher, S. E., Barlow, J. F. and Robins, A. (2009) Short-range urban dispersion experiments using fixed and moving sources. Atmospheric Science Letters, 10 (2). pp. 59-65. ISSN 1530-261X

9. Taliadorou, Neophytou, Georgiou (2009). Perturbation solutions of Poiseuille flows of weakly compressible Newtonian liquids. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. Volume 163, Issues 1-3, November 2009, Pages 25-34.

pre-2008

10. Sokhi and Neophytou (2007). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Urban Air Quality, Limassol, Cyprus, 27-29 March 2007 (ISBN: 978-1-905313-46-4).

11. Neophytou MK and Britter RE. (2006) Modelling buoyancy-driven flows in semi-enclosed regions: applications to the fire propagation in tunnels, International Journal of Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol.6, Nos.1-2, pp.137-145.

12. Neophytou MK and Britter RE. (2005). A simple model for the movement of fire smoke in a confined tunnel, Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics, Springer-Berkhäuser Verlang, Vol.162, No.10, pp.1941-1954.

13. Neophytou MK, Goussis D, Mastorakos E and Britter RE (2005). The development of a scale-adaptive reactive pollutant dispersion model, Atmospheric Environment (Elsevier Publishers), Volume 39, Issue 15, pp. 2787-2794.

14. Neophytou MK, Goussis D, Van Loon M, Mastorakos E (2004). Reduced chemical mechanisms for atmospheric pollution using Computational Singular Perturbation Analysis, Atmospheric Environment (Elsevier Publishers) Vol. 38, No. 22, pp. 3661-73.

Personal Website: http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/efm