====== Apostol Vourdas ======


===== Biography =====
  * 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

==== Research in Quantum Computing ====

  * 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



===== Wigner-specific research =====
(selection)

  * [[Apostol Vourdas]], [[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319594941|Finite and Profinite Quantum Systems]] (Springer, 2017)
  * Earnshaw RA, Lei C, Li J, Mugassabi S and [[Apostol Vourdas]], [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437111008958|Large scale data analysis using the Wigner function]], Physica A **391**, 2401-2407 (2012)
  *[[Apostol Vourdas]], [[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063778810020055|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]], [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192909900216X|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, [[https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.3467|Fractional fourier operators and generalized Wigner functions]], Physical Review A **60**, 3467 (1999)
  * S. Chountasis, L. K. Stergioulas, and [[Apostol Vourdas]], [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500349908231397|Quantum filtering of noise in the Wigner function]], Journal Mod. Optics **46**, 2131-2134 (1999)
  * S. Chountasis and [[Apostol Vourdas]], [[https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.58.1794|Weyl and Wigner functions in an extended phase space formalism]], Physical Review A **58**, 1794-1798 (1998)



===== Affiliation(s) =====

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



===== Additional information =====

  * [[http://www.brad.ac.uk/ei/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/staff-profiles/profile/?u=avourdas|University Profile]]