Elias Balaras

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland. May 1995
• M.S., von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode-St-Genese, Belgium. July 1991.
• Dipl. Ing., Democritos University of Thrace, Department of Civil Engineering, Xanthi, Greece. July 1990.

 

EMPLOYMENT

• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Jan 2011 - Present.
• Associate Professor, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. July 2008 - Dec. 2010.
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. July 2007 - Dec. 2010.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. Jan. 2001 - June 2007.
• Research associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. May 1998 - Dec. 2000.
• Research Scientist, Greek Army Research and Technology Center (KETES), Athens, Greece. (In the framework of obligatory military service in the Greek Army). March 1996 - Sep. 1997.
• Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Nov. 1995 - Feb. 1996.

 

HONORS and AWARDS

• Marie-Curie Fellowship, European Union, 1994
• NSF Career Award, 2003

 

PROPFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Reviewer for numerous government programs related to fluid mechanics, biological flows, high performance computing and turbulence.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Large-eddy simulation and Direct Numerical simulation
• Cardiovascular Fluid Mechanics
• Fluid/structure interactions
• Biological Flows
• Flows in porous media