Curriculum Vitae
Phoebus Rosakis
Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete
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Address
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
University of Crete
Heraklion 70013 Crete, Greece
email: rosakis ( at ) uoc.gr
telephone: +30 2810 393722
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology, 1989
(Minor in Materials Science)
Master of Science in Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology, 1984
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Brown University, 1983
Positions
3/2004 - present Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete
7/2001 – 3/2004 Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
7/1994 - 7/2001 Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
8/1988-7/1994: Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
Visiting Positions
2012 - present Visiting Associate in Aerospace, GALCIT, California Institute of Technology
1/2008 - 6/2009 Visiting Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10/2001 - 8/2002 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete
8/1994-7/1995: Visiting Associate Professor, Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Mathematical modelling in continuum and atomistic mechanics of solids. Nonlinear elasticity. Instabilities and defects in crystalline solids. Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics
Discrete/continuum modelling of crystals. Dynamics of phase transformations, twinning and dislocations. Microstructure evolution in transforming materials.
Constitutive inequalities. Constitutive Modeling of Biological Materials. Biomechanics of cell evolution. Instabilitiesand phase transitions in biomaterials.
Awards
Cornell College of Engineering J.P. and Mary Barger Outstanding Teaching Award, 1995
National Science Foundation (USA) Research Initiation Award 1990.
Engineering and Applied Science Fellowship, California Institute of Technology 1884
Publications
Link to Google Scholar Profile
1) P. Rosakis and A.J. Rosakis, The Screw Dislocation Problem in Incompressible Finite Elastostatics: A Discussion of Nonlinear Effects, Journal of Elasticity 20, 3-40. (1988)
2) P. Rosakis, Ellipticity and Deformations with Discontinuous Gradients in Finite Elastostatics, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 109, 1-37 (1990) DOI: 10.1007/BF00377977
3) P. Rosakis, Compact Zones of Shear Transformation in an Anisotropic Solid, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 40, 6, 1163-1195. (1992)
4) R. Lakes, P. Rosakis and A. Ruina, Microbuckling Instability in Elastomeric Cellular Solids, Journal of Materials Science 28, 4667-4672. (1993)
5) P. Rosakis and Q. Jiang, Deformations with Discontinuous Gradients in Plane Elastostatics of Compressible Solids, Journal of Elasticity 33, 233-257 (1993)
6) P. Rosakis and H.Y. Tsai, On the Role of Shear Instability in the Modelling of Crystal Twinning, Mechanics of Materials 17, 245-259. (1994)
7) H.Y. Tsai and P. Rosakis, On Anisotropic Compressible Materials that Can Sustain Elastodynamic Anti-Plane Shear, Journal of Elasticity 35, 213-222 (1994)
8) P. Rosakis and H. Simpson, On the Relation Between Polyconvexity and Rank-One Convexity in Nonlinear Elasticity, Journal of Elasticity 37, 113-137 (1995)
9) P. Rosakis, An Equal Area Rule for Dissipative Kinetics of Propagating Strain Discontinuities, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 55, 100-123. (1995)
10) P. Rosakis and Q. Jiang, On the Morphology of Ferroelectric Domains, International Journal of Engineering Science 33, 1, 100-123. (1995)
11) P. Rosakis and H. Tsai, Dynamic Twinning Processes in Crystals, International Journal of Solids and Structures 32, 17/18, 2711-2733. (1995)
12) P. Rosakis and J.K. Knowles, Unstable Kinetic Relations and the Dynamics of Solid-Solid Phase Transitions, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 45, 11/12, 2055-2081 (1997)
13) T.J. Healey and P. Rosakis, Unbounded Branches of Injective Solutions to the Forced Displacement Problem of Nonlinear Elastostatics, Journal of Elasticity 49, 65-78 (1997)
14) A. Vainchtein, P. Rosakis, L. Truskinovsky and T. Healey, The Role of the Spinodal in One-Dimensional Martensitic Phase Transitions, Physica D 115,1/2, 29-48 (1998)
15) P. Rosakis, Characterization of Convex Isotropic Functions, Journal of Elasticity 49(3), 257-267 (1998)
16) P. Rosakis and J.K. Knowles, Continuum Models for Irregular Phase Boundary Motion in Shape Memory Tensile Bars, European Journal of Mechanics A-Solids 18(1), 1-16 (1999)
17) A. Vainchtein, T.J. Healey and P. Rosakis, The Use of Bifurcation Theory in a New One-Dimensional Model of Martensitic Phase Transitions, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 170, 407-421 (1999)
18) A. Vainchtein and P. Rosakis, Hysteresis and Stick-Slip Motion of Phase Boundaries in Dynamic Models of Phase Transitions, Journal of Nonlinear Science 9, 697-719 (1999)
19) T.Y. Hou, P. Rosakis and P. LeFloch, A Level-Set Approach to the Computation of Twinning and Phase Transition Dynamics, Journal of Computational Physics 150, 302-331 (1999)
20) J. Hodowany, G. Ravichandran, A.J. Rosakis and P. Rosakis, Partition of Plastic Work into Heat and Stored Energy in Metals, Part I: Experiments, Experimental Mechanics 40 (2), 113-123 (2000)
21) P. Rosakis, A.J. Rosakis, G. Ravichandran and J. Hodowany, A thermodynamic internal variable model for the partition of plastic work into heat and stored energy in metals, Part II: Theory, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 48(3), 581-607(2000)
22) P. Rosakis, Supersonic dislocation kinetics from an augmented Peierls model, Physical Review Letters 86(1), 95-98 (2001)
23) H.Y. Tsai and P. Rosakis, Quasi-steady growth of twins under stress, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 49(2): 289-312 (2001)
24) V. Nosenko, V., G.E. Morfill and P. Rosakis, Direct Experimental Measurement of the Speed-Stress Relation for Dislocations in a Plasma Crystal, Physical Review Letters 106(15) 155002 (2011)
25) P. Rosakis and A Vainchtein, New Solutions for Slow Moving Kinks in a Forced Frenkel-Kontorova Chain, Journal of Nonlinear Science 23(6), 1089-1110 (2013).
26) C. Makridakis, D. Mitsoudis and P. Rosakis, On atomistic-to-continuum couplings without ghost forces in three dimensions, Applied Mathematics Research Express 2014 (1), 87-113 (2014) arXiv:1211.7158
27) P. Rosakis, Continuum surface energy from a lattice model, Networks and Heterogeneous Media 9(3), 453-476 (2014); arXiv:1201.0712
28) J. Notbohm, A. Lesman, P. Rosakis, D.A. Tirrell, G. Ravichandran, Microbuckling of fibrin enables long range cell mechanosensing, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12 (108) 20150320 (2015) arXiv:1407.3510
29) P. Rosakis, J. Notbohm and G. Ravichandran, A Model for Compression-Weakening Materials and the Elastic Fields due to Contractile Cells, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 85 16-32 (2015); arXiv:1412.2612
30) P. Rosakis, The Interfacial Energy of a Phase Boundary via a Lattice-Cell Average Approach (2016), arXiv:1603.02985
31) G. Grekas, K. Koumatos, C. Makridakis, P. Rosakis, Approximations of cell-induced phase transitions in fibrous biomaterials: Gamma-convergence analysis, arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01382, submitted to SIAM J. Numer. Anal.
32) Z. Zhang, P. Rosakis, T.Y Hou, G. Ravichandran, A Minimal Mechanosensing Model Predicts Keratocyte Evolution on Flexible Substrates, (2020); Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17 20200175 arXiv:1803.09220
33) P. Rosakis and Maria E. Marketou, Rethinking Case Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 from a Data-Driven Viewpoint, Journal of Infection 81 (2020) e162-e164https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7286834/pdf/main.pdf. arXiv:2006.05860
34) G. Grekas, M. Proestaki, P. Rosakis, J. Notbohm, C. Makridakis, G. Ravichandran, Cells exploit a phase transition to mechanically remodel the fibrous extracellular matrix, Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2021) 18: 20200823. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0823 arXiv:1905.11246
35) P. Rosakis, T.J. Healey and U. Alyanak, The Inverse-Deformation Approach to Fracture, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2021): 104352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104352, arXiv:2006.16770
Lecture Notes and Book Chapters
1) A.J. Rosakis and P. Rosakis, Elements of Dislocation Theory and Plasticity, Solid Mechanics Report 87-1 (1987), California Institute of Technology
2) H. Tsai and P. Rosakis. "DYNAMICS OF TWINNING." In Developments in Mechanics: Proceedings of the 23d Midwestern Mechanics Conference, vol. 17, p. 34. Plenum Press, 1993.
3) P. Rosakis and H. Tsai, The Growth of Twins Under Stress, in Mechanics of Phase Transformations and Shape Memory Alloys, L.C. Brinson and B. Moran, editors, ASME, New York, 1994.
4) Ravichandran, G., Rosakis, A. J., Hodowany, J., & Rosakis, P.. On the conversion of plastic work into heat during high-strain-rate deformation. in Shock Compression of Condensed Matter--2001: Proceedings of the Shock Compression of Condensed Matter held in Atlanta, Georgia, June 24-29, 2001. American Institute of Physics , Melville, NY, pp. 557-562 (2002)
5) B. Burkel, A. Lesman, P. Rosakis, D.A. Tirrell, G. Ravichandran, J. Notbohm, Microbuckling of fibrous matrices enables long range cell mechanosensing, Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 6, 135-141
Editorial and Technical Memberships
Society for Natural Philosophy
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Editorial Board, Journal of Elasticity (past member)
Editorial Board, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (past member)
Referee
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Physical Review Letters
Physical Review E
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Journal of Nonlinear Science
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Elasticity
Mechanics of Materials
International Journal of Solids and Structures
Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
