George Lykotrafitis Assistant Professor United Technologies Engineering Building Rm. 374 Phone: (860) 486-2439 Fax: (860) 486-5088 E-mail: gelyko@engr.uconn.edu Research Website: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~gelyko/

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2005.
Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2001.

Research Areas: Cellular mechanics and other mechanics related research problems

Dr. Lykotrafitis joined our faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2009. Dr. Lykotrafitis received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences from National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He subsequently received his second M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech studying dynamic frictional sliding modes along incoherent interfaces. Since 2006, he has been a postdoctoral fellow at MIT conducting experimental and computational studies of cellular membrane dynamics in Prof. Subra Suresh's group.