• 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
• Apostol Vourdas, Finite and Profinite Quantum Systems (Springer, 2017)
• 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

Earnshaw RA, Lei C, Li J, Mugassabi S and Vourdas A (2012): “Large scale data analysis using the Wigner function” Physica A, 391 2401-2407.

Vourdas A (2010): “Wigner and Weyl functions for p-adic quantum mechanics” Physics of atomic nuclei, 73 237-241.

GIAKAS G, STERGIOULAS L and VOURDAS A (2000): “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.

HOUNTASIS S, VOURDAS A and BENDJABALLAH C (1999): “Fractional fourier operators and generalized Wigner functions” Physical Review, A60 3467-3473.

CHOUNTASIS S, STERGIOULAS L.K and VOURDAS A (1999): “Quantum filtering of noise in the Wigner function” Journal Mod. Optics, 46 2131-2134.

CHOUNTASIS S and VOURDAS A (1998): “Weyl and Wigner functions in an extended phase space formalism” Physical Review, A58 1794-1798.

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

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