Vasos Pavlika
Teaching Fellow
Department of Biochemical Engineering
Contact
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Bio
Vasos Pavlika is an Applied Mathematician with expertise in Fluid Dynamics based in the Biochemical Engineering Department at UCL, he has previously been Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London delivering first and second year BSc/BA modules in Quantitative Methods, he has also taught online at SOAS on seven M.Sc modules in Mathematical Economics. Vasos has also lectured for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford (where he was also Acting Director of Studies in Mathematics and Computing from 2014-15). At Oxford he taught: C/C++, Java Programming, Mathematics and Geometry for Games Programming, Further Mathematics for Computer Games, The History of Mathematics from Euclid to Gauss, The History of Mathematics from Gauss to Wiles, The History and Consequences of the Invention of the Calculus, Basic Statistics for the Social Sciences, Statistics for the Life Sciences, a Brief History of Science, Great Ideas in Physical Sciences. Vasos was also employed in the Department of International Development, Oxford University teaching Research Methods and Statistics (MSc). Vasos has also been associated with the London School of Economics and Political Science as one of their Saturday School Mathematics lecturers and Summer School Course Directors. Vasos also previously taught for INTO, University of East Anglia, St George’s, University of London delivering modules in Mathematics and Physics and at Goldsmiths College, University of London delivering modules in C++ and Java to second year undergraduates. Vasos has also been appointed as Professor of Calculus at two US based universities in the UK when he lectured to students from Northeastern University (Boston) and to Skidmore College (New York) students. Vasos also teaches occasional weekends in the Department of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge where he delivers courses on the History of Mathematics and the History of Science.
Vasos has also been an External Examiner at Bucks New University (Computing), the University of Canberra, Australia (Computing), Bedfordshire University (Computing), the University of Bournemouth (Computing), Kingston University (Economics), City University London (Physics), Coventry University (IT Management), The University of East London in Malaysia, Singapore and Greece (Computing), Ulster University, Belfast (Engineering), Staffordshire University (Engineering), Plymouth University in Plymouth and Sri Lanka (Computing), Wolverhampton University in Muscat, Oman (Computing), Sheffield University (Mathematics, Physics and Statistics) and as an External Advisor at Liverpool John Moores University (Engineering modules), Buckingham University (Medical Physics modules) and Cardiff Metropolitan University in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt.
Previously Vasos has worked in industry as a consultant mathematician designing progressive power lenses writing numerical code in C++, as well as working as a consultant statistician.
Vasos has been Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering and Visiting Guest Lecturer at other London based universities as well Field Chair in Computing and e-Commerce at the University of Gloucestershire.
Vasos is a Fellow and C.Math, CMathTeach and CSci with the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, a Member and C.Phys with the Institute of Physics where he also acts as Reviewer/Chair of CPhys applications, a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and a Fellow and CITP with the British Computer Society (presently being considered to act as panel member overseeing CITP applications), Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers, Member of the Royal Economic Society, Member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Member of the British Society for the History of Science. Vasos’ research interests include: Fluid Dynamics (incompressible and compressible flow), Magnetostatics, The History of Mathematics and Science, Teaching in HE, and Chaos theory.