Research output.
The MSE programme draws faculty from three of AUTh's most research-active departments. This page presents a verified overview of their collective publication output over the five-year period 2021–2025, sourced entirely from official Scopus records.
The data cover 56 active faculty members across the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering — each one a researcher who teaches on the MSE programme. The numbers below are not estimates: they are extracted directly from individual Scopus author profiles.
2021–2025 combined
faculty members
per year, all departments
Programme-wide output.
Across all three departments, MSE faculty published a total of 1,495 Scopus-indexed papers between 2021 and 2025. Output has remained consistently high throughout the period, with a programme-wide average of approximately 299 papers per year.
The annual distribution shows a strong and sustained research culture. 2022 was the most productive single year, with 320 papers. The programme enters 2025 with output at 293 papers — broadly consistent with the five-year average and reflecting no sign of declining research intensity.
The Mechanical Engineering department shows the most pronounced positive trajectory across the period — rising from 39 papers in 2021 to 93 in 2025, driven in large part by the exceptional output of Prof. Nikolaos Michailidis (93 papers over the five years). Chemistry leads in absolute volume (860 papers), reflecting the size and depth of that faculty cohort. Physics contributes 296 papers, with a particularly strong year from Prof. George Vourlias in 2023 (19 papers in a single year).
Department of Chemistry.
The Department of Chemistry accounts for 860 papers — 57.5% of total MSE programme output — over the five-year period. This reflects both the size of the Chemistry cohort and the consistently high research intensity of its faculty. Output across the department has remained stable, averaging 172 papers per year.
| Faculty member | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Achilias Dimitrios | 11 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 62 |
| Angaridis Panagiotis | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| Balaskas Andronikos | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Binas Vassilios | 12 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 63 |
| Dendrinou–Samara Catherine | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 25 |
| Fanourgakis Georgios | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| Giannakouros Thomas | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| Gkizis Petros | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 23 |
| Hatzidimitriou Antonios | 14 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 75 |
| Kalogiouri Natasa | 19 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 68 |
| Karapanagiotis Ioannis | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 25 |
| Karapantsios Theodoros | 12 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 58 |
| Kartsonakis Ioannis | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 21 |
| Katsounaros Ioannis | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 19 |
| Kostoglou Margaritis | 18 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 80 |
| Koukaras Emmanuel | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 |
| Lazarides Theodoros | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| Lykakis Ioannis | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 22 |
| Nikolaidis Nikolaos | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 24 |
| Nikolakaki Eleni | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| Papageorgiou George | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 25 |
| Papi Rigini | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 26 |
| Pournara Anastasia | 4 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 26 |
| Psomas George | 7 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 50 |
| Sarli Vasiliki | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 22 |
| Trogadas Panagiotis | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Tsiplakides Dimitrios | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| Zografos Alexandros | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| Department total | 195 | 196 | 169 | 150 | 150 | 860 |
Source: official Scopus author profiles, May 2026. Avranas Antonios not included (0 papers in period).
Department of Physics.
The Physics department contributes 296 papers across the five-year period — an average of 59 papers per year from 15 faculty members. The department's output reflects a focused research profile centred on materials characterisation, electron microscopy, optical spectroscopy, magnetism, and nanoscale physics.
A notable feature of the Physics cohort is the breadth of its specialisations — each faculty member brings a distinct experimental or computational expertise, giving MSE students access to a characterisation and solid-state physics curriculum that very few single-department programmes can match.
| Faculty member | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angelakeris Mavroeidis | 6 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 26 |
| Arvanitidis Ioannis | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| Delimitis Andreas | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
| Dimitrakopulos George | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| Gioti Maria | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 19 |
| Kantiranis Nikolaos | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 26 |
| Kassavetis Spyros | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Katsikini Maria | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| Kehagias Thomas | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 |
| Kioseoglou Joseph | 9 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 32 |
| Laskarakis Argiris | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| Papaioanou Evangelos | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 |
| Patsalas Panagiotis | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| Sarafidis Charalampos | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 17 |
| Vourlias George | 7 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 42 |
| Department total | 74 | 57 | 61 | 54 | 50 | 296 |
Source: official Scopus author profiles, May 2026. Kantiranis Nikolaos (Dept. of Geology) included as MSE contributing faculty.
Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering contributes 339 papers over the five-year period — and shows the most significant growth trajectory of the three departments. Output nearly tripled from 39 papers in 2021 to 93 papers in 2025, driven by a cluster of faculty whose research intensity has increased substantially in the period.
This trajectory is significant for prospective students: it reflects a department that is deepening, not plateauing, its research engagement. Faculty in this department cover metallic materials, additive manufacturing, structural dynamics, combustion, sustainable energy and environmental engineering — the engineering backbone of the MSE curriculum.
| Faculty member | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamantis Vasileios | 9 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 23 |
| Giagopoulos Dimitrios | 5 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 34 |
| Karatzas Kostantinos | 2 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 33 |
| Kikkinides Eustathios | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| Kompogiannis Spyridon | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mavropoulos Azarias | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Michailidis Nikolaos | 5 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 32 | 93 |
| Ntziachristos Leonidas | 7 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 61 |
| Savaidis Georgios | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| Skordaris Georgios | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| Stergioudi Fani | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| Tapoglou Nikolaos | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 |
| Vlachokostas Christos | 4 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 32 |
| Department total | 39 | 67 | 61 | 79 | 93 | 339 |
Source: official Scopus author profiles, May 2026. Kikkinides Eustathios (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) included as MSE contributing faculty.
Data & methodology.
All publication data presented on this page are extracted from official Scopus author profiles as of May 2026. Each figure reflects the number of documents indexed by Scopus and attributed to that author's verified profile during the calendar year indicated.
The following methodology notes apply:
- Only faculty members who contribute to the MSE programme curriculum are included — this is not a comprehensive list of all departmental faculty.
- Publication counts reflect documents indexed in Scopus, which may differ slightly from counts on other platforms (Web of Science, Google Scholar) due to database coverage differences.
- One faculty member (Avranas Antonios) shows zero indexed papers in the period and is excluded from departmental totals.
- Faculty from adjacent departments who contribute to MSE teaching — Kantiranis Nikolaos (Geology) and Kikkinides Eustathios (Chemical Engineering) — are included in the Physics and Mechanical Engineering totals respectively, consistent with their MSE programme roles.
- Data were extracted in May 2026. Papers published or indexed after the extraction date are not reflected.
The full dataset — including individual Scopus IDs and annual breakdown for all 57 faculty — is available as a spreadsheet download below.