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Protopapas Eleftherios

Extended Curriculum Vitae

Protopapas Eleftherios

Assistant Professor

 School of Science and Technology

Office: Laboratory of Applied Mathematics

lprotopapas@eap.gr

(+30) 2610367571

Curriculum Vitae

Eleftherios Protopapas is an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology (SST) of the Hellenic Open University (HOU). He graduated from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Patras in 1993, obtained his Master’s degree from HOU in 2009, and completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics at HOU in 2013, with a dissertation titled: “Stokes flow problems with applications in hemodynamics.”

From 1996 to 2000, he worked in private tutoring centers, followed by a period in private education (2000–2004) and public secondary education (2004–2017). From 2017 to 2026, he served as Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Mathematics Sector of the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences (SAMPS) at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Since 2026, he is an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology of the Hellenic Open University. Between 2020 and 2026, he was a member of the HOU Adjunct Academic Staff for the course “General Mathematics I (FYE10)” within the undergraduate program “Studies in Natural Sciences.”

Research Interests

  • Differential Equations (Ordinary and Partial).
  • Boundary Value Problems.
  • Mathematical Modeling in Medicine and Life Sciences.
  • Analytical Solutions of Life Science problems modeled by PDEs.
  • Identification of Function Spaces for solutions of problems defined by linear partial differential operators.
  • Spectral Theory of operators.
  • Stokes Flow (Creeping Flow).
  • Dynamical Systems (Existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions).
  • Symbolic Computation Packages (Mathematical software).
  • Distance Learning.
  • Applications of Mathematics for use in Secondary Education.
  • Educational Technology (Use of ICT in education).

Teaching

  • He has taught at NTUA in various schools: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis I, and Software for Mathematics, Physics, and Education.
  • He has taught the course “General Mathematics I (FYE10)” at the Hellenic Open University for the undergraduate program “Studies in Natural Sciences.”
  • He has supervised 3 Undergraduate Theses at SAMPS (NTUA).
  • He has supervised 1 Master’s Thesis at HOU for the “Postgraduate Studies in Mathematics” program.
  • He has co-supervised 2 Master’s Theses at HOU for the “Postgraduate Studies in Mathematics” program.

 

Educational Material

Publications

Selected Publications:

  • Dassios G., Hadjinicolaou M., Protopapas E. Blood plasma flow past a red blood cell: mathematical modelling and analytical treatment. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 2012; vol. 35, no. 13, pages 1547-1563, DOI: 10.1002/mma.2540.
  • Hadjinicolaou M., Kamvyssas G., Protopapas E. Stokes flow applied to the sedimentation of a red blood cell, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 2015; vol. LXXIII, no 3, pages 511-523, Online ISSN 1552-4485; Print ISSN 0033-569X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/qam/1390.
  • Hadjinicolaou M., Protopapas E. Spectral decomposition of the Stokes flow operators in the inverted prolate spheroidal coordinates. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2015; 80, pages 1475-1491, doi:10.1093/immamat/hvx003.
  • Hadjinicolaou M., Protopapas E. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the separability and the R-separability of the irrotational Stokes equation and applications. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 2020; 8, 2379-2401, https://doi.org/10.4236/jamp.2020.811176.
  • Kyriazis C., Protopapas E., Stogias S. The effect of using emergency remote teaching on Greek Mathematic classes in secondary education from mathematicians’ perspective. Contemporary Mathematics and Science Education, 2023; 4(1), ep23012. https://doi.org/10.30935/conmaths/13029.
  • Protopapas E. Incorrect conclusions drawn for plausible looking diagrams. Transnational Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2023; Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 109-130, https://jyotiacademicpress.org/jyotic/journalview/32/article/63/108.
  • Protopapas E., Vafeas P., Hadjinicolaou M. A mathematical model for studying the Red Blood Cell magnetic susceptibility. Applied Numerical Mathematics; 208 (2025) 356–3652024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnum.2024.05.014.
  • Protopapas, E. A Mathematical Model on Brain’s Ability of Learning. Knowledge. (2025), 5, 19. https://doi.org/10.3390/knowledge5030019.
  • Protopapas E., Vafeas P., Hadjinicolaou M. Stokes flow around a paraboloid of revolution: Analytical treatment in an unbounded domain. Physics of Fluids; 37, 107154 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0293259.
  • Protopapas, E. Fractional Dynamical System for Pollution in Multi-Pond Networks. Foundations. (2026), 6, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/foundations6010010.

 

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