Georges Pavlidis

Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut

Mechanical Engineering

Georges Pavlidis earned his M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2013 and his M.S., Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. His doctoral research was focused on assessing the reliability of new generation wide bandgap transistors using optical and electrical techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution. He also was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) EAPSI fellowship to investigate the thermal conductivity of GaN in Japan under the supervision of 2014 Nobel Prize winner Hiroshi Amano. Prior to joining the department, Dr. Pavlidis was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg. He leveraged Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) methods to investigate transport mechanisms in isotopically enriched two-dimensional (2D) materials using techniques such as photothermal induced resonance (PTIR).