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.
Extended CV
Selected Recent Publications
- Scherz, LF, Costanzo, S, Huang, Q, Schlutter, AD, Vlassopoulos, D. "Dendronized Polymers with Ureidopyrimidinone Groups: An Efficient Strategy To Tailor Intermolecular Interactions, Rheology, and Fracture", MACROMOLECULES 50, 5176-5187 (2017).
- Louhichi, A, Jacob, AR, Bouteiller, L, Vlassopoulos, D. "Humidity affects the viscoelastic properties of supramolecular living polymers", JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 61, 1173-1182 (2017).
- Merola, MC, Parisi, D, Truzzolillo, D, Vlassopoulos, D, Deepak, VD, Gauthier, M. "Asymmetric soft-hard colloidal mixtures: Osmotic effects, glassy states and rheology", JOURNAL OF RHEOLOGY 62, 63-79 (2018).
- J. Ruiz-Franco, J. Marakis, N. Gnan, J. Kohlbrecher, M. Gauthier, M. P. Lettinga, D. Vlassopoulos, and E. Zaccarelli "Crystal-to-Crystal Transition of Ultrasoft Colloids under Shear", PHYS. REV. LETT. 120, 078003 (2018).
- Costanzo, S, Ianniruberto, G, Marrucci, G, Vlassopoulos, D. "Measuring and assessing first and second normal stress differences of polymeric fluids with a modular cone-partitioned plate geometry", RHEOLOGICA ACTA 57, 363-376 (2018).
