CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL I. TAROUDAKIS

Born : November 20, 1956 in Heraklion Crete, GREECE

Current Position:

Professor, Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete.

Chairman of the Department of Mathematics for the period 2007-2011

 
Researcher, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/IACM).

 Education:

            Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering


            Diploma of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

 

  • National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1983-1988)

Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering


Ph.D. in Underwater Acoustics.

 

 Professional Interests:

  • Mathematical modelling of physical phenomena with emphasis in wave propagation
  • Underwater acoustics - Direct problems. Helmholtz equation - Parabolic approximation. Normal-mode theory in range-independent and range-dependent environments.
  • Underwater acoustics - Inverse problems. Ocean Acoustic Tomography. Wave-theoretic approaches. Linear schemes based on modal-phase or modal travel time measurements. Matched-field processing.
  • Underwater acoustics - Bottom recognition.
  • Ambient noise in the sea. Prediction models.
  • Noise and vibration control.
  • Bioacoustics
  • Music and Mathematics

 

Professional Experience:

 

            Professor, University of Crete, Department of Mathematics, Heraclion, Crete (2009-  ).

Associate Professor University of Crete. Department of Mathematics, Heraklion, Crete (1998-2009).

Assistant Professor University of Crete. Department of Mathematics, Heraklion, Crete (1993-1998).

Teaching in courses of applied mathematics including numerical analysis, linear algebra and mathematical modelling. Supervisor of diploma and master thesis. Member of the University Senate (1994-1995, 1997-1998).

Lecturer National Technical University of Athens. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Athens, Greece (1990-1993).

Teaching in courses of acoustic propagation, vibration generation and propagation, sound and vibration interaction, noise and vibration control; acoustic and electromagnetic waves as tools for navigational aids. Supervisor of diploma and masterthesis. Member of the University Senate (1992-1993).

Researcher Foundation for Research and Technology-HELLAS. Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics Heraklion, Crete, Greece (1988-).

Member of the Underwater Acoustics Group of the Institute. Main activities in the development of new theoretical and numerical schemes for underwater acoustic propagation modelling. Direct and inverse problems. Emphasis in coupled mode schemes for the treatment of range-dependent and 3-D environments. Also, linear modal schemes and matched-field processing for ocean acoustic tomography. Participation and main investigator in EU/MAST and National projects in the field of wave propagation and underwater acoustics. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute (1991-2004) and member of the Technical Committee of the Research Center since (1994-2000) and since 2006.

Research Assistant National Technical University of Athens. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Athens, Greece (1982-1988).

Participated in research projects with topics related to underwater acoustics, vibration control, noise control and ship machinery monitoring.

Teaching Assistant National Technical University of Athens. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Athens, Greece (1982-1988).

Participated in the teaching of courses in marine engineering and marine systems design.

Summer Research Assistant SACLANTCEN ASW Research Centre La Spezia, Italy (1986).

Member of the Ambient Noise Group. Research in underwater acoustic propagation modelling.

Research Projects

(over the last 20 years)

International

  • EU funded : MAST/ACID
  • EU funded : MAST/THETIS
  • EU funded : MAST-2/REBECCA, principal investigator
  • EU funded : MAST-2/THETIS
  • EU funded : MAST-2/PROMODE
  • EU funded : Int. Coorp. ACUSTICA, principal investigator
  • INTAS funded : INTAS-93-0557, coordinator
  • INTAS funded : IN/RU-95-1002, coordinator
  • EU funded : SIGMA, principal investigator
  • EU funded : INTERREG II , SOSMER, principal investigator
  • EU funded : FP7, NoE , ESONET, principal investigator
  • Greek-French bilateral collaboration, two projects (2002-2006)


National

  • AMFITRITI (Hellenic Navy), principal investigator
  • ŌĒĮĖĮŌŌĮ (General Secretariat for Research and Technology), co-ordinator

  • EMSO-HELLAS (General Secretariat for Research and Technology), principal investigator.

 

Other Academic Activities

  • Chairman of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete (2007-2011)
  • Vice Chairman of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete (2001-2003)
  • Director of the Division of Applied Mathematics of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete (2003-2004)
  • Director of the Graduate Programme on “Mathematics and their Applications” (2008-2010).
  • Chairman of the Sports Hall Committee of the University of Crete (2006-2009).
  • Chairman of the Sports Committee of the University of Crete since 2011.
  • Coordination of the Training Program of the Students of the University of Crete since 2010.
  • Member of the Technical Committee of the University of Crete (2000-2004)
  • Member of the Post-Graduate Committee of the University of Crete  (2006-2009).
  • Member of the Committee of the Centre of Continuous Education of the University of Crete since 1996.
  • Member of the Senate of the University of Crete (1994-1995, 1997-1998, ex oficio 2007-2011 ).
  • Member of the Committee of the Graduate Programme in “Optics and Vision” since 2003.
  • Member of the Senate of the National Technical University of Athens (1992-1993).
  • Member of the Technical Committee of FORTH (1994-2000 and 2006-).
  • Associate Editor of the Acta Acustica united with ACUSTICA. (the Journal of the European Acoustics Association).
  • Editor of the Journal of Computational Acoustics
  • Guest editor of the Journal of Computational Acoustics.
  • Guest editor of the Acta Acustica united with Acustica
  • Chairman of the International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics (2007)
  • Chairman of the Greek National Conference ACOUSTICS 2006 (2006).
  • Co-organizer of the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Wave Propagation (1991, 1992).
  • Co-organizer of the Advanced Course on Acoustical Oceanography (1993).
  • Co-organizer of the 3rd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (1996).
  • Chairman of the 1st Workshop on Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics (1999).
  • Field co-ordinator of Underwater Acoustics of the FORUM 2002.
  • Member of the advisory or technical committees and organizer of special sessions on computational ocean acoustics in many International Conferences.
  • Reviewer of several Scientific Journals and National Science Foundations.
  • President of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics (HELINA) since October 2008
  • General Secretary of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics (HELIN.A.) (2001-2008)
  • Member of the Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography of the Acoustical Society of America (2009-2013)
  • Member of the Bologna Experts Team, of the Hellenic Ministry of Education since 2011.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Thesis work

Study of the Acoustic Propagation in Shallow Water with an Irregularly Shaped Bottom. Ph.D. thesis. National Technical University of Athens. Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (in Greek). 1988. 
 

Journal Papers

  1. Taroudakis M.I. and Nicolaidis N.X. : "A Simplified Model for the Estimation of the Shipping Noise in Shallow water" -Technika Chronika, Scientific edition, Vol. 9, pp 47-72 (1989).
  2. Taroudakis M.I., Athanassoulis G.A. and Ioannidis J.P.: "A Variational Principle for Underwater Acoustic Propagation in a Three-Dimensional Ocean Environment". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 88, pp 1515-1522 (1990).
  3. Papadakis J.S., Taroudakis M.I., Papadakis P.J. and Mayfield Betty: "A New Method for a Realistic Treatment of the Sea Bottom in the Parabolic Approximation". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 92, pp 2030-2038 (1992).
  4. Taroudakis M.I. and Papadakis J.S. "Modal Inversion Schemes for Ocean Acoustic Tomography" Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 1, No 4, pp 395-421 (1993).
  5. Bjorno L., Papadakis J.S., Papadakis P.J., Sageloli, J., Sessarego J.P., Sun S. and Taroudakis M.I. "Identification of Seabed Data from Acoustic Reflections: Theory and Experiment" ACTA ACUSTICA, Vol 2, pp. 307-323 (1994).
  6. The THETIS Group "Open-Ocean Deep Convection Explored in the Mediterranean" EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 75, No 19, pp 217-221 (1994).
  7. Taroudakis M.I. "A Coupled-Mode Formulation for the Solution of the Helmholtz Equation in the Water in the Presence of a Conical Sea-Mount" Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 4, No 1, pp 101-121 (1996).
  8. Send U., Krahmann G, Mauuary D., Desaubies Y., Gaiilard F., Terre, T., Papadakis J., Taroudakis M., Skarsoulis E. and Millot C. "Acoustic observations of heat content across the Mediterranean Sea" Nature, Vol 385, pp 615-617 (1997).
  9. Taroudakis M.I. and Markaki M.G. "On the use of matched-field processing and hybrid algorithms for vertical slice tomography" (1996) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol 102, pp 885-895 (1997).
  10. Taroudakis M.I. and Markaki M.G. "Bottom geoacoustic inversions by broadband matched field processing" .Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol 6, Nos 1 & 2, pp 167-183 (1998).
  11. Taroudakis M.I. "Identifying modal arrivals in shallow water for bottom geoacoustic inversions" Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol 8, No 2, pp 307-324 (2000).
  12. Taroudakis M.I. and Markaki M.G. "Bottom geoacoustic inversion by matched field processing - a sensitivity study" Inverse Problems, Vol 16, pp 1679-1692 (2000).
  13. Taroudakis M.I. and  Markaki M.G. “Tomographic inversions in shallow water using modal travel time measurements” ACTA ACUSTICA united with ACUSTICA, Vol 87, pp 647-658 (2001).
  14. Frantzis, A., Goold, J.C., Skarsoulis, E.K., Taroudakis M.I. and Kandia V. “Clicks from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales, Ziphius cavirostris” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 112, pp 34-37 (2002).
  15. Papadakis P.J., Bjørnø L, Sessarego J-P. and Taroudakis M.I.: "A non-linear inversion method for recovering the properties of a multi-layered elastic bottom”  ACUSTICA united with ACTA ACUSTICA, Vol 89, pp 614-624 (2003).
  16. Taroudakis M.I and Tzagkarakis G. “On the use of the reassigned wavelet transform for mode identification”  Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol 12, No 2, pp 175-196 (2004).
  17. Bouchage G. and Taroudakis M.I.: “Fluctuations of the modal arrival times due to linear internal waves : Application to Inversion”  Journal of Computational Acoustics. Vol 14,  No 4,  pp 469-487 (2006).
  18. Taroudakis M.I., Tzagkarakis G., Tsakalidis P.: “Classification of acoustic signals using the statistics of the 1-D wavelet transform coefficients” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 119, pp 1396-1405 (2006).
  19. Tzagkarakis G, Taroudakis M.I, Tsakalides P.: "A statistical geoacoustic inversion scheme based on a modified radial basis functions neural network" Journal ļf the Acoustical Society ļf America Vol 122, pp 1959-1968 (2007).  
  20. Papadakis, P., Taroudakis, M.I., Sturm, F. Sanchez, P and Sessarego, J-P.: “Scaled Laboratory Experiments of Shallow Water Acoustic Propagation”  Acta Acustica united with Acustica Vol 94, No. 5, pp 676-684 (2008).
  21. Taroudakis M.I. and Smaragdakis C. "On the use of Genetic Algorithms and a statistical characterization of the acoustic signal for tomographic and bottom geoacoustic inversions” Acta Acustica united with Acustica Vol  95,  No 5, pp 814-822 (2009).  

 

Publications in Conference Proceedings

  1. Taroudakis M.I and Giannopoulos G.: "Measurements of Noise Radiated by Ships' Models". Proceedings of IVth IMAEM Congress, Varna, Bulgary, Vol. I pp 15.1-15.10. (1987).
  2. Tarroudakis M.I.: "A Parametric Study of the Influence of the Subbottom Rigidity on the Acoustic Field in the Sea". Proceedings of the 2nd National Congress on Mechanics, Athens, Greece, Vol. II, pp 821-831 (1989).
  3. Taroudakis M.I.: "A Study of the Influence of the Environmental Parameters on the Traffic Noise in the Sea" Colloque de Physique, No 2, Supplement, Tome 51, pp C2.1001-C2.1004, (1990).
  4. Taroudakis M.I., Athanassoulis G.A. and Ioannidis J.P. "A Hybrid Solution of the Helmholtz Equation in Shallow Water, Based on a Variational Principle" in Acoustique Sous Marine et Ultrasons, CNRS-LMA, Marseille, pp 213-227 (1991).
  5. Taroudakis M.I., Papadakis P.J., Papadakis J.S. and E. Simantiraki: ``On the Estimation of the Bottom Geoacoustic Parameters, Using Measurements of Plane Wave Reflection Parameters" Acoustical Imaging edited by H Ermert and H.-P. Harjes, Plenum Press, New York, pp 841-846 (1992).
  6. Taroudakis M.I. and Sessarego J.P.: "An Algorithm for the Calculation of the Plane-Wave Reflection Coefficient from Multilayered Elastic Media". Proceedings of the 3rd National Congress on Mechanics, Athens, Greece, Vol. II, pp 629-637 (1992).
  7. Taroudakis M.I. and Papadakis J.S.: "Using E„mpirical Oˇrthogonal Functions in Ocean Acoustic Tomography to Improve the Sound Velocity Structure Estimation" in Advances in Computer Methods for Partial Differential Equations - VII, edited by P.Vichnevetsky, D. Knight and G.Richter, IMACS, New Brunswick N.J. pp 726-732 (1992).
  8. Papadakis J.S., Papadakis P.J., Taroudakis M.I., Sessarego J.P. and Sageloli J. "Using Acoustic Reflection Data to Reconstruct the Ocean Bottom Structure" in European Conference on Underwater Acoustics edited by M.Weydert, Elsevier Applied Sciences, London, pp 539-542 (1992).
  9. Taroudakis M.I. and Papadakis J.S. "Reconstruction of Sound Velocity Structure in the Sea, Using Ocean Tomography Techniques" in European Conference on Underwater Acoustics edited by M.Weydert, Elsevier Applied Sciences, London, pp 607-610 (1992).
  10. Taroudakis M.I.: "Study of the arrival pattern of acoustic pulses in underwater transmissions" Proceedings of the ERCIM Workshop on Numerical Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Problems in Wave Propagation, pp 98-111, (1992).
  11. Papadakis J.S, Taroudakis M.I and Papadakis J.S.: "Study of the Convergence of an Iterative Scheme Used in Ocean Acoustic Tomography" Computational Acoustics - Volume 2 edited by D.Lee, A.R.Robinson and R. Vichnevetsky, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp 63-77 (1993).
  12. Taroudakis M.I., Lyridis D.V., and Pliatsikas K. "Study of the Effect of the Plate Stiffeners on the Structure-borne Noise Transmission on board Ships, Using the Statistical Energy Analysis" in Proceedings Internoise '93 edited by P. Chapelle and G. Vermeir, Leuven, Belgium, pp 1205-1208 (1993).
  13. Taroudakis M.I.: "Modal inversion schemes for ocean acoustic tomography" Department of Physics, University of Bergen, Scientific/Technical Report No 1994-21 edited by M. Verstrheim and H. Hoboek. pp 107-110 (1994). 17th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics, Ustaoset Norway.
  14. Taroudakis M.I.: "Variations of Tomography Signals in Shallow Water Due to Bottom Topography Irregularities" in Journal de Physique, Volume 2, Supplement JPIII no 5, pp C5.1079 - C5.1082 (1994).
  15. Taroudakis M.I. "A Comparison of Modal-phase and Modal-travel-time Approaches for Ocean Acoustic Tomography" in 2nd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics , edited by Leif Bjorno, pp 1057-1062 (1994).
  16. Papadakis P.J., Taroudakis M.I. and Papadakis J.S. "Recovery of the Properties of an Elastic Bottom Using Reflection Coefficient Measurements" in 2nd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics edited by Leif Bjorno, pp 943-948 (1994).
  17. Taroudakis M.I. "Computational Aspects of a Coupled-mode Solution of the Helmholtz Equation in Water in the Presence of a Conical Sea-mount" in Proceedings of the 14th IMACS World Congress, Atlanta, USA, pp. 950-953 (1994).
  18. Athanassoulis G.A., Papadakis J.S., Skarsoulis E.K. and Taroudakis M.I. "A Comparative Study of Two Wave-Theoretic Inversion Schemes in Ocean Acoustic Tomography" in Full Field Inversion Methods in Ocean and Seismic Acoustics, edited by O.Diachok et al., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 127-132 (1995).
  19. Taroudakis M.I. and Markaki M. "Matched-field Ocean Acoustic Tomography Using Genetic Algorithms" in Acoustical Imaging , edited by Piero Tortoli and Leonardo Masotti, Plenum Press, pp 601-606 (1996).
  20. Taroudakis M.I. "Inverse problems in underwater acoustics: Future trends". (1996). ACUSTICA - acta acustica Vol 82 Suppl 1 S 105 (1996). FORUM ACUSTICUM - Antwerpen 1996.
  21. Taroudakis, M.I.and Markaki, M.G. "Matched-field Tomography with a Genetic Algorithm Applied in Range-Dependent Environments" in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, edited by J.Papadakis, pp 779-784 (1996).
  22. Taroudakis, M.I., Papadakis, P.J and Sklavos, S. "Bottom Characterization Using Parametric Array Data" in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics , edited by J.Papadakis, pp 625-630 (1996).
  23. Taroudakis M.I. "On the estimation of errors in the arrival pattern of an acoustic pulse, calculated by parabolic approximation codes" in Shallow-Water Acoustics , edited by R. Zhang and J. Zhou, China Ocean Press, pp. 95-100 (1997).
  24. Taroudakis M.I and Markaki M.G. "A Two-Phase metched-field processing scheme for bottom recognition, using broad-band acoustic data" in Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics , edited by A. Alippi and G.B. Cannelli pp 33-38 (1998).
  25. Dougalis V.A., Kampanis N.A. and Taroudakis M.I. " Comparison of finite element and coupled-mode solutions of the Helmholtz equation in underater acoustics" in Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics , edited by A. Alippi and G.B. Cannelli pp 649-654 (1988).
  26. Taroudakis M.I. "Inverse problems in underwater acoustics"  in Proceedings of the 2nd EAA International Symposium on Hydroacoustics, edited by A Stepnowski et al. pp 281-290 (1999).
  27. Taroudakis M.I., Markaki M and Mavritsaki E. "Matching modal arrivals in shallow water for tomographic inversions" in  Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, edited by M.E.Zakharia, P. Chevret and P. Dubail pp 1317-1322 (2000).
  28. Taroudakis M.I. and Makrakis G. “A study of the eigenvalues of the “Depth Problem” in shallow water acoustic propagation modelling over an elastic halfspace” in Procedings of the 10th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, pp 2547-2553 (2003).
  29. Taroudakis M.I. and Tzagkarakis G. "Acoustic signal representation by the statistical distribution of the wavelet subband coefficients for tomographic inversions" in Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, edited by D.G.Simons, pp. 639-644 (2004).
  30. Taroudakis M.I and Tzagarakis G. «Acoustic characterization of an underwater acoustic signal by means of the statistical distribution of the wavelet sub band coefficients»  in Proceedings of the National Congress "ACOUSTICS2006" pp. 285-292 (2004).
  31. Papadakis P., Taroudakis M, Sanchez P. and Sessarego J-P. "Scaled laboratory experiments of shallow water acoustic propagation" Proceedings of FORUM ACUSTICUM 2005,  pp. 287-292 (2005).
  32. Taroudakis M.I., Tzagkarakis, G. and Tsakalides, P.: “Characterization of an under­water acoustic signal using the statistics of the wavelet sub-band coefficients” Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2005,  edited by A. Tolstoy, E-C Shang and Y-C Teng, World Scientific, pp. 167-174 (2006).
  33. Papadakis P., Taroudakis M, Sanchez P. and Sessarego J-P.: «Ōime and frequency measurements using scaled laboratory experiments of shallow water acoustic propagation». Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Under­water Acoustics, edited by S.M. Jesus and O.C. Rodriguez pp. 453-458 (2006).
  34. Taroudakis M.: “Acoustical methods for the monitoring of the marine environment with applications to shallow water” Proceedings of the TecniAcustica CD-ROM edition  pp. 1-7 (2006).  
  35. Papadakis, P. And Taroudakis M.:  «Laboratory experiments for the calculation of the acoustic field in shallow water and long range». «Acoustics 2008» Michael Taroudakis and Panagiots Papadakis (eds), pp. 391-398 (2007) in Greek.  
  36. Taroudakis M.: “Inversion Techniques for Ocean Acoustic Tomography and Bottom Classification Based on Normal-Mode Theory” Hydroacoustics, Annual Journal, Vol 10, pp. 199-206 (2007). Keynote presentation óōļ 6th International Symposium on Hydroacoustics, Łeba, Poland 2007.
  37. Papadakis P., Taroudakis M., Sanchez, P. and Sessarego, J-P.: “Identification of normal-mode arrival times using data from laboratory experiment” Proceedings 2nd Intern. Conference on Underwater Acoustic Measurements edited by J. Papadakis and L. Bjørnø, pp. 1163-1168 (2007).  
  38. Papadakis P. and Taroudakis M.: “Estimation of Sea-Floor parameters by modal arrival measurements using data from a laboratory experiment” Proceedings of the ICA07, CD Rom edition, Madrid  (2007).
  39. Mavroudis T, Vardoulias, Georgiadis, A., Koukos I. and Taroudakis M.:  “Two Dimensional Wavelet Coefficient Statistics for Sea Bottom Classification” Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Under­water Acoustics, edited by M. Zakharia  pp. 459-464 (2008).
  40. Papadakis, P and Taroudakis M. "Estimation of critical parameters in laboratory experiments of underwater acoustic propagation using matched-field inversions" in Proceedings of «Acoustics 2008»   pp. 356-364 (2009) in Greek. 
  41. Taroudakis, M. and Smaragdakis C. : "Underwater Acoustic Signal Characterization in the presence of Noise". Internoise 2010, CD Rom edition, Lisbon (2010).
  42. Papadakis, P., Smaragdakis C., Taroudakis M.  and Tolstoy A.: "Hybrid inversion techniques for geoacoustic inversion" in Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Istanbul (2010).

 

Lecture Notes

  1. Taroudakis M.I. “Ocean Acoustic Tomography” in Tutorial Course for Young Acousticians from European Countries- Lecture Notes  edited by Z. Lubniewski and A. Stepnowski, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk pp.77-95 (2002).

Section in Books

  1. Taroudakis M.I..:  “Modal Ļbservables for Geoacoustic Inversion” in  Important Elements in: Geoacoustic Inversion, Signal Processing, and Reverberation in Underwater Acoustics 2008" edited by Alex Tolstoy,   Research Signpost  pp. 105-128 (2008).
  2. Sullivan Ed. and Taroudakis M.I., “Signal Processing in Underwater Acoustics” Section Co-ordination in Handbook of Signal Processing edited by David Havelock, Sonoko Kuwano, Michael Vorländer  Springer Verlag,  (2008).

 

Books
     1.    Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics (with George Makrakis eds.) Springer Verlag (2001).

     2.    Acoustics 2008 (with P.Papadakis eds.) Book of Proceedings HELINA (2007)

     3.    Theoretical and Computational Acoustics 2007 (with P.Papadakis eds.) FORTH & UoC (2008)


Professional Memberships:

 

Other Social-Scientific Activities

  • Member of the Cretan Society of Historical Studies (2010-)

  • Member of the supervising committee of the Municipal “Vikelaia” Library of Heraklion (2011-)

  • President of the Friends Society of the Municipal “Vikelaia” Library of Heraklion.(2006-)

 

 

Personal Information:

Marital Status: Married, 3 children (girls)
Citizenship: Greek
Foreign Languages: English (very good), French (fair), Italian (fair)
Hobbies: Music (Classical), Sports

 Addresses:

University of Crete
Department of Mathematics
P.O.Box 2208,
714 09 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tel +30 2810 393880, Fax +30 2810 393881
e-mail taroud@math.uoc.gr

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Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics
P.O.Box 1385
711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Tel +30 2810 391784, fax +30 2810 391801
e-mail taroud@iacm.forth.gr