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Dimitrios Vlachos

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Music School of Arts, Culture & Environment University of Edinburgh 12 Nicolson Square Edinburgh E

Outline Biography

Dimitrios Vlachos has been a Greek State Teacher of Music in secondary education for 17 years. He recently returned from sabbatical as a PhD research student sponsored by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) in Industrial Design. He has an MSc(Eng) from the University of Liverpool (UK) in Product Design & Management. He graduated from two Technological Educational Institutions in Greece: TEI of Piraeus with the degree of "Ptychion" [BSc(Eng)] in Industrial Informatics, and TEI of the Ionian Islands with the degree of "Ptychion" [BSc] in Technology of Sound & Musical Instruments (distinction & 1st award). He also graduated from Athens conservatories with various diplomas in Piano, Music theory, and Music teaching with distinctions & awards. He studied Sound Engineering graduating with a Diploma from a Cinema & TV School in Athens. He is an experienced choir conductor and organist working for the Deutschesprachige Katholische Gemeinde St. Michael in Athens for over 6 years. He worked as a lecturer in Higher Education for one year and has participated in many scientific research programmes. His native language is Greek. He also speaks English and German.

PhD Title

Design, ergonomics, controls, and Pipe-organs

PhD details

Research interests

Industrial Design
Musical instruments
Music and Ergonomics
Pipe organ engineering

Supervisors

Peter Nelson
Darryl Martin
Murray Campbell

Publications

Publications/presentations/papers list for Dimitrios Vlachos

Teaching

2010-2011, "Music" as teacher and Vice-Head in the Secondary Education (Greece)
2007-2008 (2nd semester), "Music technology" as tutor in the University of Edinburgh
2008-2009 (2nd semester), "Music technology" as tutor in the University of Edinburgh
2003-2004, "Music and informatics", "Musical recording methods", in the Technological Educaional Institution of Ionian Islands (Greece)
1994-2003, "Music" as teacher in the Secondary Education (Greece)

This article was published on Sep 16, 2010