Dr. Petros Koutsovitis

Associate Professor
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Office hours

• Monday 11:00-12:00
• Wednesday 12:00-13:00
• Friday 11:00-12:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Athens), PhD (Athens)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3580-2196
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?hl=el&user=fKBZt60AAAAJ

Research Interests

• Magmatic Rocks
• Petrogenesis of Ophiolites
• Metasomatic processes
• Sustainable use of raw materials

Teaching

• Geol_018 Petrography of Magmatic Rocks
• Geol_026 Petrography of Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks
• Geol_022 Geological Excursion ΙΙ
• Geol_804 Petrogenesis of Ophiolite Complexes
• Geol_049 Marbles and Aggregate Materials
• GEO_OME07 Preservation and designation of geological and cultural heritage

Publications

• Koutsovitis, P., Magganas, A., Ntaflos, T., Koukouzas, N., Rassios, A.E., Soukis, K., 2020. Petrogenetic constraints on the origin and formation of the Hellenic Triassic rift-related lavas. Lithos 368-369, 105604.
• Tzevelekou, T.; Lampropoulou, P.; Giannakopoulou, P.P.; Rogkala, A.; Koutsovitis, P.; Koukouzas, N.; Petrounias, P. Valorization of Slags Produced by Smelting of Metallurgical Dusts and Lateritic Ore Fines in Manufacturing of Slag Cements. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 4670.
• Arvanitis, A.; Koutsovitis, P.; Koukouzas, N.; Tyrologou, P.; Karapanos, D.; Karkalis, C.; Pomonis, P. Potential Sites for Underground Energy and CO2 Storage in Greece: A Geological and Petrological Approach. Energies 2020, 13, 2707.
• Badouna, I.; Koutsovitis, P.; Karkalis, C.; Laskaridis, K.; Koukouzas, N.; Tyrologou, P.; Patronis, M.; Papatrechas, C.; Petrounias, P. Petrological and Geochemical Properties of Greek Carbonate Stones, Associated with Their Physico-Mechanical and Aesthetic Characteristics. Minerals 2020, 10, 507.
• Petrounias, P. Giannakopoulou, P., Rogkala, A., Kalpogiannaki, M., Koutsovitis, P., Damoulianou, M.E., Koukouzas, N., 2020. Petrographic Characteristics of Sandstones as a Basis to Evaluate Their Suitability in Construction and Energy Storage Applications. A Case Study from Klepa Nafpaktias (Central Western Greece). Energies, 13(5), 1119.
• Petrounias, P.; Rogkala, A.; Giannakopoulou, P.P.; Lampropoulou, P.; Koutsovitis, P.; Koukouzas, N.; Laskaris, N.; Pomonis, P.; Hatzipanagiotou, K. Removal of Cu (II) from Industrial Wastewater Using Mechanically Activated Serpentinite. Energies 2020, 13, 2228.
• Koukouzas, N., Koutsovitis, P., Tyrologou, P., Karkalis, C., Arvanitis, A., 2019. Potential for Mineral Carbonation of CO2 in Pleistocene Basaltic Rocks in Volos Region (Central Greece). Minerals, 9 (10), 627.
• Koutsovitis, P., Magganas, A., Ntaflos, T., Koukouzas N. 2018. Rodingitization and carbonation, associated with serpentinization of Triassic ultramafic cumulates and lavas in Othris, Greece. Lithos 320-321, 35-48.
• Liard, F., Pomonis, P. Koutsovitis, P., Gait, J., Stamatakis, M. 2017. Ophiolites associated with pottery production in Bronze Age Crete. Archaeometry.
• Koutsovitis, P. 2017. High-pressure subduction-related serpentinites from East Thessaly (Greece): Implications for their metamorphic, geochemical and geodynamic evolution in the Hellenic-Dinaric ophiolite context. Lithos 276, 122-145, Special Issue: European Lithospheric Mantle; geochemical, petrological and geophysical processes.
• Koutsovitis, P., Magganas, A., 2016. Boninitic and Basaltic Dykes and Lavas from Dispersed Jurassic Ophiolitic Units in East Othris, Greece: Petrogenesis and Geotectonic Setting of Formation and Evolution. International Geology Review, 58, 1983-2006.
• Markou, G., Inglezakis, V.J., Mitrogiannis, D., Efthimiopoulos, I., Psychoyou, M., Koutsovitis, P., Muylaert, K., Baziotis, I. 2016. Sorption mechanism(s) of orthophosphate onto Ca(OH)2 pretreated bentonite. RSC Advances 6, 22295-22305.
• Magganas, A., Koutsovitis, P. 2015. Composition, Melting and Evolution of the Upper Mantle beneath the Jurassic Pindos Ocean Inferred by Ophiolitic Ultramafic Rocks in East Othris, Greece. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104, 1185-1207.
• Koutsovitis, P., Magganas, A., Pomonis, P., Ntaflos, T., 2013. Subduction-related rodingites from East Othris, Greece: Mineral reactions and physicochemical conditions of formation. Lithos, 172-173, 139-157 (5-year impact factor 4.973).
• Koutsovitis, P., Magganas, A., Ntaflos, T., 2012. Rift and intra-oceanic subduction signatures in the Western Tethys during the Triassic: The case of ultramafic lavas as part of an unusual ultramafic-mafic-felsic suite in Othris, Greece. Lithos, 144-145, 177-193.

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Dr Helene Simoni

Laboratory Teaching Staff
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Office hours

• Monday 10:00-11:00
• Wednesday 10:00-11:00
• Friday 12:00-13:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BA (Athens), MA (Leicester), PhD (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3336-1358
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ahmYH5UAAAAJ&hl=el&oi=ao

Research Interests

• Landscape Archaeology
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Cultural Resource Management
• Local History
• Urban Archaeology

Teaching

• Geol_012 Cartography & Introduction to GIS
• Geol_024 Geographic Information Systems
• Geol_033 Digital Remote Sensing
• Geol_066 Hydrology with GIS and Remote Sensing
• Geol_078 Protection of the Geological, Geographic and Human Heritage
• GEO_822E GIS and Remote Sensing in Applied Geology. Data Analysis and modeling
• PED_320 Introduction to Greek Culture & Civilization

Recent Publications

• Mandarino A., Stamatopoulos L., Mpalatsas G., Simoni H., Papagiannopoulos K. & P. Brandolini 2022: Channel planform changes on the lower Peiros River (Patras, Greece): 1945-2018 comparison, in Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana 56, 21-28
• Simoni H 2021: Ground Truthing and Remotely Sensed Data for Interpreting the Archaeological Potential of Modern Cities: The Case-Study of Patras, Greece, in Burgers, G.L.M., L. Cicala, G. Iliano, & Μ. Quagliuolo (eds) Archaeology in the City: Proceedings of the International Workshop, Amsterdam 16-17 October 2019, (Naples: Naus Editoria, 2021), 59-72.
• Simoni H., Papagiannopoulos K., Tsiakiris R., & Stara K. 2021: Local resource management imprinted in the landscape: convergent evolution in two Greek mountain-plains during the last five centuries, in Bartelheim, M., L. García Sanjuán, & R. Hardenberg (eds) "Human-Made Environments. The Development of Landscapes as ResourceAssemblages." ,53-73 doi.org/10.15496/publikation-60477
• Papagiannopoulos, K., Simoni, H. & Kontolaimos, P. 2021: Settlement Pattern and Land Use under the Frankish Feudal System in the Northwestern Peloponnese (Thirteenth–Mid-Fifteenth Centuries). Frankokratia, 2(2), 109-143.
• Simoni H. & E. Georgoudaki 2020: The University of Patras, Greece, its city, and international students: insights from multiple cartographic perspectives, European Planning Studies, 28:2, 213-233, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1632270
• Simoni H. 2018: Mapping Places and Relations: Representations of the city of Patras and its reflections in the academia through cartography, in: Matiu O. (ed.): ReValue. Rethinking the value of Arts and Culture. 11th Interdisciplinary Conference of the University Network of the European Capitals of Culture, Proceedings, Aarhus, 8-11 November 2017. Sibiu: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Press, 51- 66.
• Ριζάκης, Α., Κ. Παπαγιαννόπουλος & Ε. Σιμώνη, 2018: Συμβολή στη μελέτη των ρωμαϊκών κτηματολογίων στη Δυμαία χώρα με τη χρήση Γεωγραφικών Συστημάτων Πληροφοριών/ A GIS application on the study of Roman cadastres in Dyme, Achaia. Στο: Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στην Πελοπόννησο (ΑΕΠΕΛ1). Πρακτικά του Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου, Τρίπολη, 7-11 Νοεμβρίου 2012, 561-570.
• Αργυρόπουλος B., Ε. Σιμώνη, Κ. Παπαγιαννόπουλος (επιμ.) 2017, Αρχαιολογικοί χώροι και μνημεία του Δήμου Δυτικής Αχαΐας. Πρακτικά Ημερίδας 19 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016. Κάτω Αχαΐα: Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Αχαΐας – Δήμος Δυτικής Αχαΐας
• Simoni, H. & K. Papagiannopoulos, 2017: Integrating Local History and Landscape Archaeology: two case studies from western Greece. Journal of Greek Archaeology 2, 321-337
• Παπαγιαννόπουλος, K. & Σιμώνη, Ε. (επιμ.) 2017. Οι ρίζες των Σουδενιωτών. Τοπική Ιστορία και Αρχαιολογία των μετακινήσεων/ The roots of Soudeniotes. Local History and Archaeology of the movements (Λουσικά: Σύλλογος Σουδενιωτών Πατρών & Περιχώρων).
• Simoni H., 2016: Geographical Information Systems in Urban Archaeology and Urban Planning. A case study from a Greek modern city, built on top of an ancient city, Oxford: BAR International Series 2812

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Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos

Professor
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Office hours

• Tuesday 10:00-11:00
• Wednesday 13:00-14:00
• Friday 10:00-11:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Patras), PhD (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5850-8144
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=XaOJ39gAAAAJ&hl=el

Research Interests

• Metamorphic Petrology
• Industrial minerals
• Sustainable Development
• Archaeometric Studies with Emphasis on Evaluation and Provenance of ancient ceramics and Stone artefacts

Teaching

• Geol_017 Computer applications in Earth Sciences
• Geol_035 Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic rocks
• Geol_039 Geological Excursion V
• Geol_040 Industrial minerals
• Geol_050 Methods on Research and Analysis of Minerals and Rocks
• Geol_071 Metamorphism in the Hellenic region
• Geol_078 Protection of the Geological, Geographic and Human Heritage
• GEO_OME02 Earth Materials and Environmental Applications
• GEO_OME03 Advanced topics in Mineralogy/Petrology/Ore Geology
• GEO_OME04 Earth Materials and Sustainable Development
• GEO_OME05 Instumental Methods of the analysis of Earth Materials
• GEO_OME12 Archaeometric approaches for the study of ancient ceramic and stone artefacts
• OC_O02 Seafloor Mapping for Marine Heritage
   

Publications

• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., Katsonopoulou, D., and Katsarou, S. (in press) Standardized patterns in the ceramic craft at early Bronze Age Helike, Achaea, Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Avramidis, P. (2021) Assessment of clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production, in the Northern Peloponnese, Greece. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2021) 13:50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01297-1
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Liritzis, I. (2021) Mineralogical and Microstructure Analysis for Characterization and Provenance of Ceramic Artifacts from Late Helladic Kastrouli Settlement, Delphi (Central Greece). Geosciences 2021, 11, 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11010036
• Lara, C., and Iliopoulos, I., (2020). Ceramic technology, ethnic identification and multiethnic contacts: the archaeological example of the Cuyes river valley (south-eastern Andes of Ecuador). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 33: #102557.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102557
• Liritzis, I., Xanthopoulou, V., Palamara, E., Papageorgiou, I., Iliopoulos, I., Zacharias, N., Vafiadou, A., Germanos Karydas A., (2020). Characterization and provenance of ceramic artifacts and local clays from Late Mycenaean Kastrouli (Greece) by means of p-XRF screening and statistical analysis. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 46: 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.06.004
• Lampropoulou, P., Laskaris, N., Petrounias, P., Giannakopoulou, P.P., Rogkala, A., Kalampounias, A.G., Tsigrou, P., Katagas, C.G., and Iliopoulos, I., (2020). Petrogeochemical approaches to the characterization of obsidian derived from Nychia area (Milos Island, Greece) using combined methods. Microchemical Journal, 156, article no. 104843. DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2020.104843
• Xanthopoulou, V., Iliopoulos, I., and Liritzis, I., (2020). Characterisation techniques of clays for the archaeometric study of ancient ceramics: a review. Scientific Culture, 6(2): 73-86. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3724849
• Liritzis, I., Bednarik, R., Polymeris, G., Iliopoulos, I., Zacharias, N., Kumar G., Vafiadou, A. and Bratitsi, M., (2019). Daraki-Chattan rock art constrained osl chronology and multianalytical techniques: a first pilot investigation. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 37, 29-43.
• Bourli, N., Kokkaliari, M., Iliopoulos, I., Pe-Piper, G., Piper, D., Maravelis, A., & Zelilidis, A., (2019), Mineralogy of siliceous concretions, cretaceous of Ionian zone, western Greece: Implication for diagenesis and porosity, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 105, 45 – 63.
• Bratitsi M., Liritzis I., Vafiadou A., Xanthopoulou V., Palamara E., Iliopoulos I., Zacharias, N., (2018). Critical assessment of chromatic index in archaeological ceramics by Munsell and RGB: novel contribution to characterization and provenance studies. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 18(2), pp.175-212.
• Vitale, S., Marketou, T., McNamee, C., Moutafi, I., Vika, E., Mantello, C., Morrison, J.E., Iliopoulos, I., Passa, K.-S., Moulo, K., Blackwell, N.G. and Ballan, E., (2017). The Serraglio, Eleona, and Lancada Arcaeological Project (SELAP): report on the results of the 2011 to 2015 study seasons. In: Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle missioni Italiane in Oriente, vol. XCIV, serie III, 16, 2016, pp. 225-286.
• Liritzis, I., Zacharias, N., Al-Otaibi, F., Iliopoulos, I., Katagas, C., & Shaltout, M. (2016). Chronology of construction and occupational phases of nawamis tombs, sinai based on OSL dating. Geochronometria, 43(1), 121-130. doi:10.1515/geochr-2015-0041
• Tsikouras, Β., Passa, K.-S., Iliopoulos, I., & Katagas, C., (2016). Microstructural Control on Perlite Expansibility and Geochemical Balance with a Novel Application of Isocon Analysis: An Example from Milos Island Perlite (Greece). Minerals, 6(3), 80
• Katsonopoulou, D., Iliopoulos, I., Katsarou S., & Xanthopoulou, V., (2016). Craftsmanship of big storage pithoi in the Early Helladic settlement of Helike, Achaea. BAR S2780 Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, Edited by E. Photos-Jones in collaboration with Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou and E. Kouloumpi.  British Archaeological Reports Ltd.
• Aravadinou, E., Xypolias, P., Chatzaras, V., Iliopoulos, I., & Gerogiannis, N. (2015). Ductile nappe stacking and refolding in the Cycladic Blueschist unit: insights from Sifnos Island (south Aegean Sea), International Journal of Earth Sciences, Special Issue on Eastern Mediterranean Tectonics.

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Dr. Sotiris Kokkalas

Associate Professor
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Office hours

• Monday 10:00-12:00
• Wednesday 13:00-12:00

Portfolio

Educational Qualifications: BSc (Patras), PhD (Patras)

Researcher Profile 

• ORCID:  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5604-0445
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=V1dxA0oAAAAJ&hl=el

Research Interests

• Fault geometry, fault interaction and linkage
• Fracture networks analysis and stress analysis from fracture/fault data
• Fractured reservoirs and fluid flow
• Orogenic evolution of fold-and-thrust belts and foreland basins
• Strike-slip tectonics
• Relation of magmatism-volcanism with faulting
• Active faulting, seismotectonicsPetrotectonics

Teaching

• Geol_017 Basic Computer Applications in Geology
• Geol_034 Geological Mapping of Sedimentary rocks
• Geol_038 Field work IV
• Geol_044 Geological Mapping of Crystalline rocks
• Geol_046 Geodynamics
• Geol_048 Field work VI
• Geol_810E Interpretation and Analysis of Geological maps
• GEO_CAD01 Tectonics and Mechanics of Lithosphere
• GEO_CAD08 Processing and analysis of Structural geology data

Publications

• KOKKALAS, S. NIZAMUDDIN, S. VEGA, S. 2019. Multi-scale Fracture Network Characteristics in a Carbonate Reservoir Outcrop Analogue: Insights from μCT data in Core Plugs and Thin Sections. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 15th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Athens, Sp. Publ 7.
• KIM, S. KWON, S., JANG, Y., KOKKALAS, S. 2019. New Insights into the Tectonic Evolution of the UAE-Oman Ophiolite Suite. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 15th International Congress of the Geological Society of Greece, Athens, Sp. Publ 7.
• JOUN, H., KOKKALAS, S., TOMBROS, S. 2019 Recycled oceanic crust as a source for tonalite intrusions in the mantle section of the Khor Fakkan block, Semail ophiolite (UAE). Geoscience Frontiers, 10, 1187-1210.
• JONES, R.R., KOKKALAS, S., LONG, J.J., DANIELS, S.E., GILMENT, S.R., WILKINSON, M.W., OXLADE, D.M. 2018. Calibration of fracture models using multi-scale outcrop analogues-The importance of mechanical stratigraphy, In 3rd EAGE Workshop on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, 2018-February.
• BRUNO, P.P.G., DUROSS, C.B., KOKKALAS, S. 2017. High-resolution seismic profiling reveals faulting associated with the 1934 Ms 6.6 Hansel Valley earthquake (Utah, USA). Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 129 (9-10), pp. 1227-1240.
• WILKINSON, M.W., JONES, R.R., WOODS, C.E., GILMENT, S.R., MCCAFFREY, K.J.W., KOKKALAS, S., LONG, J.J. 2016. A comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from motion photogrammetry as methods for digital outcrop acquisition. Geosphere, 12 (6), pp. 1865-1880.
• ZYGOURI, V., KOUKOUVELAS, I., KOKKALAS, S., XYPOLIAS, P., PAPADOPOULOS, G., 2015. The Nisi fault as a key structure for understanding the active deformation of the NW-Peloponnese, Greece. Geomorphology, 237, 142-156.
• KOKKALAS, S., AYDIN, A., 2013. Is there a link between faulting and magmatism in south-central Aegean Sea? Geological Magazine 150 (2) 193-224.
• KOKKALAS, S., KAMBERIS, E., XYPOLIAS, P., SOTIROPOULOS, S., KOUKOUVELAS, I., 2013. Coexistence of thin- and thick-skinned tectonics in Zakynthos area (Western Greece): insights from seismic sections and regional seismicity. Tectonophysics, vol. 597-598, 73-84.(in press-02/09/2012).

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