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Professor Georgios Georgiou has more than 30 years of experience in computational rheology, computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, and oceanography. After completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering (University of Michigan, 1989) he worked at Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) as a postdoctoral researcher (1990-1992). In 1992, he joined the newly-established University of Cyprus (Department of Mathematics and Statistics) as a Lecturer and became Full Professor in 2004. In the past 20 years, he has been involved as a coordinator or a partner in many EU-funded and national research projects (>�2M for the University of Cyprus). He has published more than a 160 peer-reviewed publications (>130 journal papers) and abstracts and a fluid mechanics book (CRC Press), and edited four proceedings volumes. He served as the guest editor of two international rheological journals and as a reviewer in many (>90) international scientific journals. He has also taught undergraduate or graduate courses at the University of Crete, the University of Patras, the University of the Aegean, the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana (Brasil). His work is cited in more than 300 scientific journals (>3000 in google scholar, >1800 in Scopus, and >2400 in Researchgate). His h-index is 24 in Scopus and 31 in Google Scholar).
Dr. Georgiou established the Oceanography Center (OC) in 2003 which became the first Research Unit in the School of Pure and Applied Sciences in 2009. He served as the Interim Director of the Center from 2003 to 2015 and he was elected as its first Director (2.2015-2.2019). So far, the OC attracted more than �6M mainly from European Union (>�2M for its current projects).
Dr. Georgiou has served as a member of the School Council, the Senate, and many Senate and Council Committees, and as departmental co-chair. He also chaired the Hygiene & Safety and the Building Development Committees of the Senate. He co-chaired the Rules & Regulations Committee that proposed certain amendments of the University Law concerning promotion the representation of junior academic staff in the various councils of the University (these were approved by the Senate of the Republic). As the first engineer hired by the University of Cyprus, he also participated actively in the works of the special Committee for the establishment of the School of Engineering at the University of Cyprus. He also participated in various Electoral and Selection Committees of the School. He was a founding member and is currently the President of the Hellenic Society of Rheology (2017-2019).