Apostol Vourdas

• PhD, University of Manchester, 1977-1980
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, 1980-1983
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, UMIST, 1983-1985
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Marburg, 1985-1987
• Lecturer and Reader, University of Liverpool, 1987-2002
• DSc, University of Manchester, 1995
• Professor University of Bradford, 2002-

• 170 journal papers and 60 conference papers (3600 citations and h-factor=34 according to Google Scholar)
• 55 invited talks and 55 contributed talks in international conferences
• teaching interests: Computer Architecture, Formal Methods in Computer Science, Computer Graphics

• Finite Quantum Systems. Galois fields in Quantum Computing and applications to coding and cryptography
• Algebraic number theory (e.g., p-adic numbers) in Quantum Mechanics and harmonic analysis.
• Analytic functions in quantum computing
• Group theory methods (e.g., profinite groups) in quantum computing
• Lattices, topology and logic in the context of quantum computing
• Time-frequency analysis, wavelets, applications to large data analysis.
• Mesoscopic Josephson devices

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• Apostol Vourdas, Finite and Profinite Quantum Systems (Springer, 2017)
• Earnshaw RA, Lei C, Li J, Mugassabi S and Apostol Vourdas, Large scale data analysis using the Wigner function, Physica A 391, 2401-2407 (2012)
• Apostol Vourdas, Wigner and Weyl functions for p-adic quantum mechanics, Physics of atomic nuclei 73, 237-241 (2010)
• G. Giakasa, L.K. Stergioulas, and Apostol Vourdas, Time-frequency analysis and filtering of kinematic signals with impacts using the Wigner function: accurate estimation of the second derivative, Journal Biomech. 33, 567-574 (2000)
• S. Chountasis, Apostol Vourdas, and C. Bendjaballah, Fractional fourier operators and generalized Wigner functions, Physical Review A 60, 3467 (1999)
• S. Chountasis, L. K. Stergioulas, and Apostol Vourdas, Quantum filtering of noise in the Wigner function, Journal Mod. Optics 46, 2131-2134 (1999)
• S. Chountasis and Apostol Vourdas, Weyl and Wigner functions in an extended phase space formalism, Physical Review A 58, 1794-1798 (1998)

• Professor in Computing, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Bradford, UK

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