University of Cyprus
Dimitris Stagonas
Project Coordinator @ University of Cyprus
Dimitris Stagonas is an Assistant Professor in Coastal Engineering with expertise in offshore energy, coastal defenses, and renewable energy systems. He previously held academic positions at Cranfield University, UCL, and the University of Southampton. He holds a degree in Marine Science from the University of the Aegean, along with an MSc and PhD in Coastal Engineering from the University of Southampton.
An active researcher, Dimitris has authored 20+ journal publications and 37+ conference papers. He serves on the editorial board of three international journals, reviews for multiple scientific publications, and evaluates research proposals for EPSRC (UK) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. He has led and participated in research projects funded by EPSRC and the EU, collaborating with global engineering firms on coastal defenses, offshore structures, and renewable energy solutions.
Dimokratis Grigoriadis
Associate Professor @ University of Cyprus
Dimokratis Grigoriadis is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cyprus, specializing in computational fluid dynamics, environmental flows, and nuclear thermal-hydraulics.
He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from UMIST (Manchester, UK), an M.Sc. in Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics from the Von Karman Institute (Belgium), and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he focused on Large Eddy Simulations of turbulent flows in complex geometries.
Before joining the University of Cyprus in 2006 as a member of the UCY-CompSci group, he conducted research at the National Research Center "Demokritos" in Greece, working on environmental flows and computational and experimental nuclear thermal-hydraulics at the GRR-1 reactor.
Loukas Dimitriou
Associate Professor @ University of Cyprus
Loukas Dimitriou is an Associate Professor in Transport Engineering and Head of the Lab for Transport Engineering at the University of Cyprus. His expertise lies in the quantitative analysis and optimization of transport systems, leveraging empirical data, statistical modeling, econometrics, artificial intelligence, and simulation techniques to enhance performance and decision-making in the field.
He holds a Doctoral Diploma in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he also completed his undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering. Before joining the University of Cyprus, he held academic positions as an Assistant Professor at King Saud University and later as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at UCY’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
An active researcher, Loukas has contributed extensively to transport system optimization, with publications in leading journals and conferences. His work involves collaborations with industry and academia to advance intelligent transport solutions.
Andreas Paradeisiotis
Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Cyprus
Andreas Paradeisiotis is a graduate of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he went on to complete his Doctoral Dissertation entitled “Applications of Oscillators in Energy Conversion” in 2019.
Through his subsequent roles at NTUA, the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute and the University of Cyprus, he has been involved in several research projects, along with supervisory and teaching duties. Having secured a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellowship grant under UCY’s ONISILOS project, based at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, he carried out his latest work: “Wave-Group Generation Methodology for the Prediction of Extreme Loads on Offshore Floating Support Structures” (WAVEGEM).
His research interests include the control of energy transmission of dynamic phenomena in solid and fluid media, low-frequency vibration control, acoustic metamaterials, wind energy and floating wind turbines. In TETHYS, he brings his expertise in ocean engineering, structural dynamics, computational mechanics, and signal processing, to address the challenges of the project.
Andreas Heracleous
PhD Candidate @ University of Cyprus
Andreas Heracleous obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and a Master's degree in Energy Technologies and Sustainable Design both from University of Cyprus.
He is currently a PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering department at University of Cyprus and a research fellow in the EU-funded TETHYS project. His research focuses on the optimization of wind turbines for floating offshore wind farms in low-wind-speed Mediterranean regions, aiming to contribute to innovative and sustainable solutions in renewable energy.
Dimitris Georgousis
PhD Candidate @ University of Cyprus
Dimitris Georgousis is a Research Fellow and a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on developing selection methods of optimal floaters for FOWTs for specific sea conditions.
He holds a Civil Engineering degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and pursued further MSc studies in Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark. Before joining UCY, he has been involved professionally in projects related to hydrodynamic modelling of subsea cables (Ørsted), of wave energy converters (FPP), and to hull performance monitoring (VPS) in Denmark.
Ganesh Mandem
PhD Student @ University of Cyprus
Ganesh Mandem holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering, specializing in Sustainable Mobility in Urban Areas from Alma Mater Studiorum from the Universita di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree with Distinction in Civil Engineering from IIIT, RGUKT, RK Valley, India.
His master’s thesis, titled “Enhancing Intermodality: A Comprehensive Study of the Railway Station as a Mobility Hub and the Application of a New Accessibility Indicator to Improve Bike-Train Intermodality,” underscores a commitment to advancing sustainable mobility solutions through the assessment of transportation's environmental impact. Research experience includes a summer fellowship at IISc Bangalore, where significant contributions were made to understanding BMTC bus ridership patterns and public transportation dynamics in Bangalore. Ganesh has also served as an International Student Ambassador, coordinating diverse teams.
Modestos Athanasiou
MSc Student @ University of Cyprus
Modestos Athanasiou is a graduate of the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department of the University of Cyprus and holds a M.Sc. in Wind Energy from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). At the DTU, he completed his thesis on “Inflow reconstruction using wind turbine response data”, in collaboration with an industrial partner specializing in Machine Learning. His work focused on LSTM-based modelling, feature engineering, and physics-guided learning.
He has also participated as a researcher in several national research projects, contributing to forecasting, optimisation, and advanced analytics for real-time monitoring systems. He has developed data-driven tools for environmental sensing, sensor-based modelling, and decision support within indoor environmental quality applications. His research interests include wind inflow modelling, atmospheric data analysis, hybrid numerical-ML approaches, and sequence-to-sequence learning.
Stylianos Stavrinides
PhD Student @ University of Cyprus
Stylianos Stavrinides is a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus. He works on the modelling of hydrogen storage systems using CFD simulations.
He studied Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Cyprus and holds a Master’s degree in Engineering Mechanics.
Eleni Kanari
MSc Student @ University of Cyprus
Eleni Kanari is a graduate of the Cyprus University of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering.
She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where her thesis centers on enhancing wind turbines for floating offshore wind farms in low-wind Mediterranean areas.
University of Florence
Alessandro Bianchini
Associate Professor @ University of Florence
Alessandro Bianchini is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Florence (Italy), where he holds the courses on “Wind and marine engineering” and “Advanced Renewable Energy Conversion”.
Prof. Bianchini currently serves as the vice-president of the European Academy of Wind energy (EAWE). In the field of wind energy, he has authored so far more than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
His main research fields are wind turbine aerodynamics and design/simulation of wind turbines and farms with multi-fidelity approaches, from engineering methods to high-computing Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Francesco Papi
Assistant Professor @ University of Florence
Francesco Papi is an Assistant Professor in the Field of Wind Energy at the University of Florence. His research focuses on wind turbine simulation, design, and optimization, with particular focus on floating wind energy systems.
He has taken part in more than 10 international conferences as speaker or chair and has authored more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings.
Francesco Superchi
PhD Candidate @ University of Florence
Francesco Superchi obtained his Master’s degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin in 2022.
He is currently a research fellow and PhD candidate in industrial engineering at the University of Florence, and mainly works on modeling of hybrid renewable energy systems, optimization strategies and machine learning applications.
Aarhus University
Georgios Xydis
Professor @ Aarhus University
George Xydis has extensive experience in the wind energy sector, collaborating with developers, utilities, construction firms, universities, and research institutes. His professional background includes roles as a Wind Projects Development Coordinator at Iberdrola Renewables and a Wind Project Developer at Vector Hellenic Windfarms S.A. He also served as a Researcher at the Center for Electric Power and Energy in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. In February 2017, he joined the Center for Energy Technologies at Aarhus University as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in January 2023. Since January 2024, he has been with the University of the Peloponnese, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.
Additionally, George was a co-founder of VerdeCube and has worked as an adjunct faculty member in the Energy Policy and Climate program at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught the course "Wind Energy: Science, Technology and Policy" (425.624.81). He has also undertaken freelance consulting for various institutes, universities, and SMEs. His research interests include Energy Planning, Wind Resource Assessment, Techno-economics of Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Demand, and Plant Factories. He holds an Integrated Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Kerem Gürdalli
PhD Candidate @ Aarhus University
Kerem Gürdalli holds a MSc on Technology Based Business Development from Aarhus University. Currently, he is a PhD Student at the Department of Business Development and Technology of Aarhus University. The topic of his PhD is "Techno-Economic Assessment of Offshore Floating Wind and Green Hydrogen Systems in Low-to-Moderate Wind Speed Environments". His research interests include offshore wind energy, energy economics, renewable energy systems and green hydrogen.
Last Updated on March 13, 2026