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Prof. Pantelakis Spiros, Director of the Laboratory of Technology and Strength of Materials at the University of Patras (2007-2020). From 2009 to 2013 he has been the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics. For the same period he has been also Vice President of the Board of Executives of the Research Committee of the University of Patras. He belongs to the initial participants of the CEC funded Support Action European Aeronautics Science Network (2002) and has been Project Coordinator of the Support Action EASN II (2006). He is one of the founding members and has been Chairman of the European Aeronautics Science Network (EASN) Association since its establishment in 2008 up to 2019. In 2019 he has been awarded the title of the Honorary Chairman of the EASN Association. He has been also Representative of the European aeronautics academia in the Plenary of ACARE and Chairman of ACARE’s Working Group on Human Resources. Since 2015 he is Member of the Clean Sky Academy. He participated to the authors’ team of the Clean Aviation Partnership Program and co-chaired the group dealing with the exploration and maturation of technologies. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of Hellenic Aerospace Industry from November 2015 up to January 2020. He served as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Materials Industrial Research and Technology Center in Greece from December 2016 to April 2018. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greek Metallurgical Society (2008-2010). He has about 45 years experience in the field of materials and structures while he has been involved in more than 100 international aeronautics related research projects, in many of them as Scientific Coordinator. Evaluator of international and national research proposals, member of Editorial Boards and reviewer of articles for a number of international scientific journals.He is the author of several scientific books, chapters in international text books and more than 250 scientific publications in peer reviewed international journals and Conference proceedings. Chairman of about 25 international and a number of national scientific Conferences, organizer of several decades of International Workshops as well as member of the Scientific Committee of a big number of international conferences. He has been supervisor of about 20 PhD Theses and member of the examining committee of several decades of PhD Theses at the University of Patras and outside it as external examiner.

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