Stathis Κaliviotis
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
e.kaliviotis@cut.ac.cy
2500 2289
http://web.cut.ac.cy/biorheology/
CV
Dr. Efstathios Kaliviotis is Associate Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology and joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering in September 2014. Prior to his appointment at the Cyprus University of Technology he was a Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London, University of London, from Aug. 2009 to Aug. 2013 and Post-Doctoral Research Associate from Feb. 2009 to Aug. 2009 in the same institution. He received his PhD in Bio-Fluid Mechanics (Sept. 2005-Dec.-2008) and his Master in Engineering degree (MEng – First Class Honors, 2001-2005) at King’s College London. Dr Kaliviotis is a member [...]
Teaching
| ΜΕΜ416Finite Element Method in Engineering Design ΜΕΜ460 Fluid Mechanics ΙΙ ΜΕΜ536 Advanced Fluid Dynamics |
Publications
| [1] Kaliviotis E., Pasias D., Sherwood J., and Balabani S. (2017). Red blood cell aggregate flux in a bifurcating microchannel. Medical Engineering and Physics, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2017.04.007 [2] Kaliviotis E., Sherwood J., and Balabani S. (2017). Partitioning of red blood cell aggregates in bifurcating microscale flows. Scientific Reports, DOI: 10.1038/srep44563. [3] Kaliviotis E., Dusting J., Sherwood J., and Balabani S. (2016). Quantifying local characteristics of velocity, aggregation and hematocrit of human erythrocytes in a microchannel flow. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, DOI: 10.3233/CH-151980. [4] Kaliviotis E., Sherwood J., Dusting J., and Balabani S. (2016). Quantification of local blood flow characteristics in microfluidic applications. J. Series on Biomechanics, 30(1), 2016. [5] Kaliviotis E., (2015). Mechanics of the red blood cell network. Journal of Cellular Biotechnology, DOI: 10.3233/JCB-15004. [6] Antonova N., Dong X., Velcheva I. Kaliviotis E., Tosheva P., (2015). Stenosis effects on the fluid mechanics of the common carotid artery bifurcation for unsteady flows. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology. 15(2), 159-73, DOI: 10.1142/S0219519415400084 [7] Sherwood J. M., Holmes D., Kaliviotis E., and Balabani S. (2014). Spatial distributions of red blood cells significantly alter local haemodynamics. Plos One 9(6) (Jun 2014), doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100473. [8] Antonova N., Dong X., Tosheva P., Kaliviotis E., Velcheva I. (2014). Numerical analysis of 3D blood flow and common carotid artery hemodynamics in the carotid artery bifurcation with stenosis. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation. 57(2), pp. 159-73, doi: 10.3233/CH-141827. [9] Sherwood J., Kaliviotis E., Dusting J. and Balabani S. (2014). Hematocrit, viscosity and velocity distributions of aggregating and non-aggregating blood in a bifurcating microchannel. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 13, pp. 259-273, doi: 10.1007/s10237-012-0449-9. [10] Xu D., Kaliviotis E., Munjiza A., Avital E., Ji C. N., and Williams J. (2013). Large scale simulation of red blood cell aggregation in shear flows. Journal of Biomechanics 46 (11), pp.1810-1817. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.05.010. [11] Sherwood J., Dusting J., Kaliviotis E. and Balabani S. (2012). The effect of red blood cell aggregation on velocity and cell-depleted layer characteristics of blood in a bifurcating microchannel. Biomicrofluidics, 6, pp. 024119-1-18, doi: 10.1063/1.4717755. [12] Hanson B., Cox B., Kaliviotis E. and Smith C.H. (2011). Effects of saliva on starch-thickened drinks with acidic and neutral pH. Dysphagia (DOI: 10.1007/s00455-011-9386-5). [13] Kaliviotis E. and Yianneskis M. (2011). Blood viscosity modelling: Influence of aggregate network dynamics under transient conditions. Biorheology, 48, pp. 127-147. [14] Kaliviotis E., Dusting J. and Balabani S. (2011). Spatial variation of blood viscosity: Modelling using shear fields measured by a μPIV based technique. Medical Engineering and Physics, 33, pp. 824-831. [15] Kaliviotis E., Ivanov I., Antonova N. and Yianneskis M. (2010). Erythrocyte aggregation at non-steady flow conditions: A comparison of characteristics measured with electrorheology and image analysis. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, 44, pp. 43-54. [16] Dusting J., Kaliviotis E., Balabani S. and Yianneskis M. (2009). Coupled human erythrocyte velocity field and aggregation measurements at physiological haematocrit levels. J. Biomechanics, 42, pp. 1438-1443. [17] Kaliviotis E. and Yianneskis M. (2009). An energy-rate based blood viscosity model incorporating aggregate network dynamics. Biorheology, 46, pp. 639-649. [18] Kaliviotis E. and Yianneskis M. (2008b). Fast response characteristics of red blood cell aggregation. Biorheology, 45, pp. 639-649. [19] Kaliviotis E. and Yianneskis M. (2008a). On the effect of microstructural changes of blood on energy dissipation in Couette flow. Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, 39, pp. 235-242. [20] Kaliviotis E. and Yianneskis M. (2007). On the effect of dynamic flow conditions on blood microstructure investigated with optical shearing microscopy and rheometry. Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 221, pp. 887-897. |
Research Interests
| Rheology and micro-rheology, optical rheology and biorheology, flow in microchannels including blood flows, blood flow and endothelial cell interactions, etc. The results of his research seek to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of phenomena and bio-processes, such as intercellular attraction mechanisms and transport phenomena, as well as to find application in areas such as health (diagnosis and treatment for issues in the circulatory and microcirculatory system), development of lab-on-a-chip diagnostic systems, processes involving flows in the microscale, etc. Experimental apparatus include viscometers, optical shearing system, micro-flow imaging systems, etc. |
Research activity and research funding
| Start-Up Fund, CUT |
