Professor Vassilios Theofilis
Chair in Aerospace Engineering Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professional Activities
Selected Professional Activities
Editorship
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Invited Editor in Chief, 2022 - present) (Editorship)
Conference Roles
- 61st Ludwig Prandtl Memorial Lecture, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (GAMM - Gesellschaft für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik / DGLR - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft und Raumfahrt, TU München, Germany, March 19, 2018, 2018)
- Hypersonic flows at moderate Reynolds numbers (with D. Levin and O. Tumuklu), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (31st International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Glasgow, July 23-27, 2018, 2018)
- Global linear stability theory in aerospace applications, by Invitation (13th ERCOFTAC - Special Interest Group 33 Workshop Progress in Transition Modeling and Control, Paraty, Brazil, March 6-8, 2018, 2018)
- An overview of global stability analysis highlights, a closure and new frontiers , by Invitation (70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Denver, Colorado, USA, November 19-21, 2017, 2017)
- Global linear stability analysis past the solution of multi-dimensional EVP and SVD problems", by Invitation (AIAA Modal Decomposition Methods for Aerodynamic Flows (Invited Session), June 14, 2016, Washington DC, USA, 2016)
- Global Linear Instability, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (8th IUTAM Laminar Turbulent Transition Symposium, 8 – 12 September 2014, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2014)
- Global Linear Instability: Theory and Implementation, by Invitation (VKI Lecture Series "Progress in Flow Instability Analysis and Laminar-Turbulent Transition Modeling", Brussels, Belgium, 2014)
- Global Linear Instability: Applications, by Invitation (VKI Lecture Series "Progress in Flow Instability Analysis and Laminar-Turbulent Transition Modeling", Brussels, Belgium, 2014)
- Global Linear Instability at the Dawn of its 4th Decade: A List of Challenges, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, 27 - 30 June 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA , 2011)
Editorships
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Invited Editor in Chief, 2022 - present)
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, ISSN: 0935-4964 (Associate Editor, 2016 - present)
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, ISSN: 0935-4964 (Guest Editor, 2016)
- Aerospace Science and Technology, ISSN: 1270-9638 (Guest Editor, 2015)
- Aerospace Science and Technology, ISSN: 1270-9638 (Associate Editor, 2008 - present)
Examination Roles
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (PhD, 2021 - present)
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense (PhD, 2021 - present)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI (PhD, 2021 - present)
- University of São Paulo, University of São Paulo (PhD, 2021 - present)
- Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Von Karman Institute (PhD, 2021 - present)
- Imperial College London, Imperial College London (PhD, 2020 - present)
- Univ Southampton, Ph.D. (2017)
- Imperial College London, UK, Ph.D. (2015)
- KTH, Sweden, Ph.D. (2014)
- Imperial College London, UK, Ph.D. (2014)
- ONERA, France, Ph.D. (2013)
- University of Jaen, Ph.D. (2013)
- Univ Paris V, France, Ph.D. (2011)
- Ecole Polytechnique, France, Ph.D. (2002)
- EPFL, Switzerland, Ph.D. (2000)
Professional Body Memberships
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associate Fellow, 2009 - present)
- AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee (International Member, 2007 - 2013)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- ERCOFTAC Pilot Center "Iberia West" Coordinator (2006-2016)