Dimitris Vlassopoulos

• Professor
• Affiliated faculty member of the Polymer Group of IESL-FORTH in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

office

I.E.S.L. Building, Δ-102

telephone

+302810391469

fax

+302810391305

e-mail

dvlasso@iesl.forth.gr, dvlasso@materials.uoc.gr

Research Interests

• Molecular Rheology and rheo-physics in the bulk and at liquid interfaces.
• Branched, ring and associating polymeric systems and networks.
• Soft colloids and mixtures.
• Nonlinear rheological measurements.

Short Curriculum Vitae

• Diploma, Chemical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, 1983. PhD, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1990.
• Industrial experience (Metelco, Greece, 1983-4 and Mobil R&D, USA, 1990-2). FORTH researcher since 1992 and University of Crete faculty since 2002.
• Visiting Professorships at the University of Delaware, KITP, ESPCI, ETH Zurich, DTU, INSA, Univ. catholique Louvain. European Editor, Rheologica Acta (2006-2011), Associate Editor, Soft Matter (2015-).
• Weissenberg Award, European Society of Rheology, 2015; Fellow, The Society of Rheology, 2018 ; Bingham Medal, The Society of Rheology, 2019 ; APS Fellow, 2019.
Extended CV

Selected Recent Publications

• Huang Q., Ahn J., Parisi D., Chang T., Hassager O., Panyukov S., Rubinstein M., Vlassopoulos D. Unexpected Stretching of Entangled Ring Macromolecules. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 122 208001, 2019.
• Gury Leo, Gauthier Mario, Cloitre Michel, Vlassopoulos D. Colloidal Jamming in Multiarm Star Polymer Melts. MACROMOLECULES 52: 4617-4623, 2019.
• Hendricks Jan, Louhichi Ameur, Metri Vishal, Fournier Rémi, Reddy Naveen, Bouteiller Laurent, Cloitre Michel, Clasen Christian, Vlassopoulos D, Briels Wim. Nonmonotonic Stress Relaxation after Cessation of Steady Shear Flow in Supramolecular Assemblies. Physical Review Letters 123:21, 2019.
• Costanzo Salvatore, Scherz Leon, Floudas George, Pasquino Rossana, Kroger Martin, Schluter A. Dieter, Vlassopoulos D. Hybrid Dendronized Polymers as Molecular Objects: Viscoelastic Properties in the Melt. MACROMOLECULES 52: 7331-7342, 2019.
• Moghimi Esmaeel, Chubak Iurii, Statt Antonia, Howard Michael P., Founta Dimitra, Polymeropoulos George, Ntetsikas Konstantinos, Hadjichristidis Nikos, Panagiotopoulos Athanassios Z., Likos Christos N., Vlassopoulos D. Self-Organization and Flow of Low-Functionality Telechelic Star Polymers with Varying Attraction. ACS MACRO LETTERS 8: 766-772, 2019.