Prof. Jamal Odysseas Maaita
Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Physics, Greece
Biography:
Summary of Scientific – Academic Activities
- Teaching experience in Academia (under- and postgraduate) for 6 years.
- Post Doc Researcher in the Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- 16 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.
- Citation index =217, h-index = 7
- 1 Graduate book titled “Special Topics of Nonlinear Dynamics”, Kallipos, 2023.
- 2 popular science books.
- 1 journal Special Issues (Guest Editor)
- Member of the Editorial Board in 3 Journals
- Reviewer in 10 journals
- Scientific Committee-Reviewer or Μember of International Program Committee in 10 International Conferences
- Symposium organizer in 5 International Conferences.
- Organizing Committee Chair of the 2022 Conference in Nonlinear Science and Complexity and the Days of Applied Nonlinearity and Complexity”, 2024.
- Conference chairperson of the2026 Conference in Nonlinear Science and Complexity.
- Received the Jaipur’s Mathematical Society Young Researcher Distinguished Award at “8th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC25)”.
Education
- Ph.D. Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2014)
Thesis title: “Energy transfer and dissipation in nonlinear oscillators ”
- M.Sc. in Computational, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006)
Thesis title: “The homogeneous Markov system as an elastic medium, the three dimensional case”
- B.Sc. in Physics, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004)
Research Interests
The research interests of Dr. Maaita are mainly but not exhaustively in area of Nonlinear dynamics, mechanical and electrical oscillations, hidden attractors, dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, energy transfer in nonlinear oscillators, non-smooth dynamics, system identification and reduced-order modeling, nonlinear electronic circuits, chaotic behavior, complex systems, computational physics.
Positions
2016 - 2017 : Academic Fellow in the Automation Department, A.T.E.I., Thessaloniki, Greece
2017- 2019 : Academic Fellow in the Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2019 - 2020 : Academic Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Western Macedonia, Greece.
2020 - 2021 : Academic Fellow in the Department of Food Science and Technology, International Hellenic University, Greece.
2021 - 2023 : Academic Fellow in the Physics Department, International Hellenic University, Greece.
2023-2024 : Adjunct Lecturer in the Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2017 - Today : Lecturer at the “Computational Physics” Msc, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2021 - Today: Lecturer at the “Subatomic physics and technological applications” Msc, Physics Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2025, January- Today Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Democritus University of Thrace.