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Ioannis Kourakis

(Yannis)

Service to the Academic Community, Expert work, Consulting

  • Editorial Board Member (EBM): Scientific Reports (Nature Group; EBM for Fluids and Plasma Physics), since 05/2014.
  • Editorial Board Member (EBM): Plasma journal (MDPI, Switzerland).
  • Editorial Board Member (EBM): Open Journal of Plasma Physics journal.
  • Editorial Board Member (EBM): Nucleus journal (Pakistan).
  • Physics Evaluation Group membership, Discovery Grants Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); fixed term appointment, 2014 - 2017.
  • External Evaluator: NRF - National Research Foundation (South Africa) (2014, 2015).
  • Nominated as external panel member for academic staff promotion (open-ended assignment), Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Member of postgraduate examination committees / External Examiner of PhD and MSc theses: 18 assignments to date, in UK (2), Sweden (1), Australia (2), S. Africa (2), Pakistan (11).
  • Regular reviewer Assignments for UK Research Councils (EPSRC, British Council, Royal Society) and for international RCs (FWO-Flemish Research Fund, Belgium; Kazakhstan National Center for Science and Technology; Rustaveli Foundation, Georgia).
  • Regular reviewer (referee) for international journals: Physical Review journals (PR Letters, PRA and & PRE; APS, USA), Physics of Plasmas (AIP, USA), IEEE Transactions in Plasma Science (IEEE, USA), Journal of Plasma Physics (Cambridge University Press, UK), Journal of Geophysical Research (USA), Plasma Sources Science and Technology (IoP, UK), PTA - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (Royal Society, UK), MNRAS - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS, UK), Physics Letters A (Elsevier, Holland), New Journal of Physics (IOP, UK), Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (EGU, Germany), Chaos (AIP, USA), Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science (Elsevier), Optics Express (OSA, USA), Journal of Optical Society of America (JOSA & JOSB, USA), Astrophysics and Space Science (Elsevier), Open Plasma Physics Journal (OPPJ, Bentham), Fizika B (Croatia), ...
  • Member of the Local Organising Committee: IoP2018 - 45th IoP Plasma Physics Group Spring Conference, to be held in Belfast, UK.
  • Member of the International Advisory Committee: International Scientific Spring (ISS- 2018), 12-16 March 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Member of the Advisory Committee: SigmaPhi2017 - International Conference on Statistical Physics, 10-14 July 2017, Corfu, Greece.
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 10th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2017), Barcelona, Spain (30 May - 2 June 2017).
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 9th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2016), London, UK (May 2016).
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 8th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2015), Institut Henri PoincarĂ©, Paris, France (May 2015).
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 7th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2014), Lisbon, Portugal (June 2014).
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 6th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2013), Istanbul, Turkey (June 2013).
  • Member of the International Scientific Committee: 5th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2012), Athens, Greece (12-15 June 2012).
  • Member of the Advisory Committee: International Scientific Spring - 2014 (ISS-2014), Islamabad, Pakistan (March 2014).
  • Member of the Advisory Committee: International Scientific Spring - 2013 (ISS-2013), Islamabad, Pakistan (March 2013).
  • Member of the Advisory Committee: International Scientific Spring - 2012 (ISS-2012), Islamabad, Pakistan (5-9 March 2012).
  • Member of the Local Organizing Committee: 30th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases (ICPIG2011), Belfast, Nothern Ireland, UK (28 Aug.-2 Sept. 2011).
  • Member of the International Advisory Committee: XII Latin-American Workshop on Plasma Physics (XII LAWPP), Caracas, Venezuela (September 17-21, 2007).