Dimitrios Rozakis

Dimitrios Rozakis is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is actively engaged in research and teaching at the College of Engineering, where he leads the Aerodynamics & Propulsion Laboratory.

Education

• PhD in Aerospace Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (2012)
• MSc in Fluid Mechanics, University of Manchester (2008)
• Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006)

Research Interests

His research spans computational and experimental aerodynamics, with particular emphasis on:

• Transonic and supersonic flows
• Flow control using plasma actuators
• Hypersonic boundary-layer transition
• Reduced-order modelling and machine-learning techniques
• Turbomachinery aerodynamics

Recent work has focused on high-fidelity simulations of buffet phenomena, experimental investigations of plasma-based separation control, and the development of data-driven surrogate models for unsteady aerodynamic loads.

Selected Scientific Awards

• ASME Best Paper Award (2020)
• European Research Council Starting Grant (2018)
• AIAA Young Investigator Award (2016)

Students, Grants & Funding

He currently supervises three PhD students—Maria Koutsogianni, Panagiotis Giannakakis, and Eleni Christoforou—working on projects funded by the ERC, Horizon Europe, and the Greek Secretariat for Research & Technology. Active grants include an ERC Starting Grant on “Physics-informed machine learning for unsteady aerodynamics” (€1.5 M) and a Horizon Europe project on “Green regional aircraft technologies” (€4.2 M).

Laboratory & Collaborations

He directs the Aerodynamics & Propulsion Laboratory, which houses low-speed and transonic wind tunnels, a Ludwieg-tube facility for short-duration hypersonic experiments, and a high-performance computing cluster (>2 000 CPU cores). Ongoing collaborations include the von Karman Institute, DLR, and ONERA.