Alexandros Tsouknidas

About

Dr. Tsouknidas is an Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory.  His research focuses on Biomedical Engineering, with an emphasis on the application of Biomechanics and Biomaterials in Dentistry. Prior to joining GSDM, he served in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece as a tenured Associate Professor and Director for both, the Laboratory of Biomaterials and Computational Mechanics and the MSc in Biomedical Engineering. He was a Co-founder of PLiN Nanotechnology S.A., a research driven start-up, which received VC funding during his tenure as the company’s CEO and President. He has also been appointed as an External Reviewer of the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning group-specific guidelines for manufactured nanomaterials and was a past President of the Hellenic Society of Biomechanics (2019-2020), to the board of which he was firstly elected in 2013. Dr. Tsouknidas serves the Editorial Board of various citation-indexed journals and has published more than 60 scientific articles.

Education

PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 2007; MSc (Mechanical Engineering), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 2001