Stephanos Theodossiades PhD MBA Dipl-Ing CEng MIMechE Senior Lecturer Phone: (01509) 227664 Email:  S.Theodossiades@lboro.ac.uk

Background

Born in Serres, Greece. Dipl-Ing and PhD attained at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Mechanical Engineering Department. Executive MBA attained at Loughborough University, Business School. Joined Loughborough University in 2002 as Research Associate and then Fellow in the Dynamics Research Group, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. Lecturer in Engineering Dynamics (Wolfson School) since 2003.

School Research Group

Dynamics

Research Interests and Activities

Noise and Vibration monitoring of Automotive Powertrain Systems
Modeling of Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) phenomena in Automotive Powertrain Systems including:
- Multi-body dynamics analysis with flexible components
- Noise radiation prediction using the boundary element method
- Numerical/analytical methods on large and small scale applications with local nonlinearities
Modeling and monitoring of mechanical systems with gears
Dynamic analysis of medical devices and virtual prototype development

External Activities

• Reviews Editor: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics
• Guest Editor: Special Issue on Powertrain Dynamics, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 2007
• Professional affiliations: Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece
• International conferences: Co-Chair of the Engine and Powertrain Engineering Symposium in ASME IDETC 20th Biennial Conference on Vibration and Noise, Long Beach, 2005 and ASME IDETC 21st Biennial Conference on Vibration and Noise, Las Vegas 2007, Sessions Chair in International Conferences (Euromech)
• Invited Keynote Paper: Proceedings of the ASI on Engineering-Design: Eco-design, Technologies and Green Energy, Brasov, Romania, 2004
• Invited papers in International journals: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 2007, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2007
• Referee for Journal of Sound and Vibration, Proceedings of the Royal Society A and journals from American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Collaborative Research: current examples include Automotive Transmission Rattle (EPSRC and Ford University Research Project Award, 2006-9), Numerical and experimental investigations in manual transmissions to mitigate frictional/mechanical losses (KTP 01293, 2006-8) and Tribology of rubber seals/contacts (AztraZeneca, 2008-10)

Awards

• Proceedings of the IMechE, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics PE Publishing Award for the best paper published in the 2004 Volume
• British Gear Association & IMechE Transmission Engineering Prize (awarded to my final year project student Tom Lench)

Publications

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