Papatheodorou George

	FORTH Distinguished Member Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Patras, Greece
Tel. : (++30 2610) 990 983/993 586    Email: gpap@iceht.forth.gr

Education:

1969: PhD in Physical Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago, USA
1968: MS in Chemical Physics, Univ. of Chicago, USA

Previous Employment/Occupation:

1984-1999: Director, FORTH/ICE-HT
1978-1989: Visiting Professor, Chemistry Dept., Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby, DENMARK
1982-1984: Chairman, Dept. of Chem. Eng. Univ. of Patras, GREECE
1974-1981: Scientist, Chemical Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory, USA
1971-1974: Research Associate, The James Franck Institute, Univ. of Chicago, USA
1970-1971: U.S.-AEC Fellow, Ames National Laboratory, USA
1969-1970: Research Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
1964-1969: Research and Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Chicago, USA

Research Activities:

Physical chemistry of molten salts. High temperature inorganic vapours and glasses

Participation in Research Projects:

Coordination of BRITE, NETWORK and SCIENCE programmes and participation in BRITE, NATO, STRIDE and JOULE programmes

Publications:

Over 120 refereed journal papers

Conference Participation/Attendance:

Over 120 lectures in conferences, member of the organising committee in various conferences and chairman of the EUCHEM 1990 conference

Teaching Activities:

22 years of teaching in the Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. of Patras: Chemical thermodynamics, physical chemistry, chemical physics

Professional Affiliations:

American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, Electrochemical Society

Prizes/Honours

Reynolds scholarship, Univ. of Chicago 1964. U.S. Atomic Energy Commition Fellow 1970-71. Vice President, Greek Atomic Energy Commition 1981-84. Vice President, National Advisory Council of Research, Greece (1987-88, resigned) Member, Scientific Board of the "Democritos" National Research Center (1987-90). Chairman, Scientific Board of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (1996- ) . Member, NATO Science Committee (1994-2003). Max Bredig Award - Electrochemical Society 2002. FORTH Distinguished Member 2002.

Selected Recent Publications:

• "Low-Frequency Raman scattering from the 0.8 ZnCl₂-0.2AlCl₃ glass-forming system", Yannopoulos S.N., Kalampounias A.G., Papatheodorou G.N., J. Non-Cryst. Solids 307-310, 142-147 (2002)
• "Anomalous temperature dependence of photoinduced fluidity in chalcogenide glasses", Kastrissios D.T., Papatheodorou G.N., Yannopoulos S.N., Phys. Rev. B. 65(16), 165211 (2002)
• "Instantaneous collision complexes in molten alkali halides: Picosecond dynamics from low-frequency Raman data", Kirillov S.A., Pavlatou E.A., Papatheodorou G.N., J. Chem. Phys. 116(21), 9341-9351 (2002)
• "Temperature induced changes on the structure and the dynamics of the "tetrahedral" glasses and melts of ZnCl₂ and ZnBr₂", Yannopoulos S.N., Kalampounias A.G., Chrissanthopoulos A., Papatheodorou G.N., J. Chem. Phys. 118(7), 3197-3214 (2003)
• "Inelastic light scattering from xCaO-(1-x)SiO₂ glasses", Kalampounias A.G., Papatheodorou G.N. and Yannopooulos S.N., J. Non-Sryst. Solids 322, 33-40 (2003)