Dr Athanasios Mourlas

Since 2025, Dr. Mourlas, PhD holder from the University of Ioannina, has been serving at Mediterranean College as Engineering Laboratory Supervisor and Lecturer at the Athens Campus. His teaching responsibilities focus on Manufacturing Processes and Forming Processes. As an Industrial Designer specializing primarily in steel structures, he has been involved in the design, fabrication, and construction of private and public sector projects, including steel buildings, bridges, gantry cranes, and support structures for large shafts. For more than twenty-five years, he has also been affiliated as a Laboratory Associate with the Surface Engineering Laboratory (TribLab) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of West Attica. His research interests include surface treatments using Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), the tribological behaviour of thermal-sprayed coatings, welding technology, and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). His research work has been published in international scientific journals and presented at conferences in Greece and abroad.