Stylianos Varoutis

Dr. Stylianos Varoutis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1980. He received his diploma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece, in 2004, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in rarefied gas dynamics from University of Thessaly, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He moved to the Institute for Technical Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in 2009, as an EFDA Fusion Researcher Fellow. Until the end of 2024, he had been working at KIT as a Senior Research Scientist. In 2025, he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, in Greifswald. His research interests include the following fields: gas flows far from local equilibrium (rarefied gas flows), computational and experimental fluid mechanics, deterministic and stochastic numerical methods for the Boltzmann and model kinetic equations, direct simulation Monte Carlo techniques, high speed flows, high-altitude aerothermodynamics and micropropulsion, gas-phase effects in NEMS-MEMS sensors and actuators, vacuum gas dynamics, modelling, analysis and design of vacuum systems, edge plasma physics and particle transport with applications in Tokamak and Stellarator fusion devices.
Supervisors: Prof. Dimitris Valougeorgis