Academic Distinctions
Fellowship Award for 1 mo Visit to USSR/US Academy of Sciences, 1986
MTU Research Award, Michigan Tech Univ, Houghton/MI, 1993
Fellowship Award for 1 mo Visit to Japan/Japanese Government, 1996
ASME’s Koiter Award, 2000 (1st runner up - Lost by one vote; 2 of his greek colleagues in US voted for Maier)
ASME/ASCE/SES Symposium honoring his 55th birthday, 1-3 June 2005, Baton Rouge/USA [Appendix II]
Selected for ASM’s Author Award (for his article in Metal. Mater. Trans. A 42, 2985-2998, 2011)
Acknowledged in G.A. Maugin’s Continuum Mechanics Through the 20th Century: A Coincise Historical
Perspective, Springer, 2013. [Chapter 10.6.3/Greece: P.S. Theocaris, P.D. Panagiotopoulos, E.C. Aifantis, G.M.
Lianis.]
Listed in ISI Web of most highly cited authors in the world: ENGINEERING (3rd entry. A0086-2010-N out of 262)
KACST Award/King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah-Saudi Arabia, 2013
Distinguished Foreign Scientist Fellowship Award/Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu-China, 2014
Aifantis International Symposium honoring his 65th birthday, 4-9 October, 2015, Antalya/Turkey [Appendix II]
Fray International Sustainability Award (along with Nobel Laureate El-Ichi Negishi)/Flogen Star Outreach, 2015