DIMITRIOS VAVYLONIS
Department of Physics
Lehigh University
16 Memorial Drive East
Bethlehem PA 18015
Tel: (610) 758-3724
Fax: (610) 758-5730
vavylonis@lehigh.edu
EDUCATION
2000 Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University with B. O'Shaughnessy (Chemical Engineering)
1998 M.Phil. in Physics, Columbia University
1996 M.A. in Physics, Columbia University
1994 Ptychion (B.Sc.) in Physics, University of Athens, Greece
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2016-present Professor, Department of Physics, Lehigh University
2012-2016 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Lehigh University
2006-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Lehigh University
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University with B. O'Shaughnessy(Chemical Engineering) and Yale University with T. D. Pollard (Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology)
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University with B. O'Shaughnessy (Chemical Engineering)
2000-2002 Military service in Greek Army.
HONORS, AWARDS AND VISITING POSITIONS
2022-present Visiting Scholar, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Instute, New York
2020 Invited Contributor to the Cellular Biological Physics Section of Faculty Opinions
2019 JST-CREST Invited Researcher, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2015 JSPS Invited Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2015 NWO Visiting Scientist, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 SNF Visiting Professor, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 Lehigh University Class of 68 Pre-Tenure Research Fellowship
2010 Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch Early Career Research Award, Lehigh University
2000 Extraordinary Teaching Assistant Award, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
2019-presest Biophysical Journal, Editorial Board Member
2015-present Cytoskeleton, Editorial Board Member
2017-present Scientific Reports, Editorial Board Member
2022 Co-editor, Special Issue “Shedding Light on Asymmetric Cellular Machinery”, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
2019 Co-editor of Special Issue “Discrete modeling of the cytoskeleton,” Cytoskeleton
2017 Editor of Special Issue, “Now In Actin” workshop in honor of Fumio Oosawa’s 94th birthday, Cytoskeleton
2016-2019 Faculty Leader, Iacocca International Internship Program to Nagoya Institute of Technology
CONFERENCE CO-ORGANIZATION
2023 Biophysics Summer School: Soft Living Matter, Rethymno, Crete, Greece2022 Frontiers in Cytokinesis subgroup, ASCB meeting
2020 Frontiers in Cytokinesis subgroup, ASCB meeting
2018 Frontiers in Cytokinesis subgroup, ASCB meeting
2016 Frontiers in Cytokinesis subgroup, ASCB meeting
2016 Biophysical Society Pennsylvania Network Meeting, Lehigh University
2014 Frontiers in Cytokinesis subgroup, ASCB meeting
2013 NSF International Workshop on Stem Cell Differentiation: the Influence of Biomaterials and Biomechanics, Shanghai, China
2012 Biophysical Society Pennsylvania Network Meeting, Lehigh University
2010 The cellular cytoskeleton: common organizing principles in mitosis, motility and cell polarization, Colorado State University
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
American Society for Cell Biology
Biophysical Society
Hellenic Bioscientific Society
Sigma Xi
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