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Stratis Andreas Kanarachos is a
member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Frederick
University and of Frederick Research Centre, Cyprus. His main interests lie in the area of
Engineering Design & Optimisation with emphasis in Dynamical
applications.
His teaching philosophy is to inspire
learning, sharpen critical thinking and promote creativity. The subjects he
teaches cover the fields of Optimisation, Engineering Design and
Dynamics. The teaching method he uses is a balance between
theory/analysis and practice/implemenation, with emphasis on new
applications. He has supervised a
number of graduate dissertations in the field of optimisation with
various applications in engineering.
He is the author of
seven (7) papers in
scientific journals and forty (40) papers in international conferences and
has served as a reviewer in a number of scientic journals and
conferences. He has been the coordinator and/or principal investigator in 15 research
projects until now, fwith National or European funding (GSRT,
Eureka, RPF, FP5, FP7). The research work mainly focused on optimisation with
applications in engineering. He holds strong relationships with local and
European industries and has participated in several industrial
development projects. He possesses an industrial patent for the
design and development of an innovative multipurpose bracing
system. Finally, he has set up the "NVH and Signal
Processing" lab at Frederick University.
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