Prof. Stelios M. Potirakis

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

University of West Attica, GREECE

Email: spoti@uniwa.gr

Qualifications

2002  Ph.D., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Physics.

1996  M.Sc., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Electronics and Communications.

1993  B.Sc., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Physics.

Publications (selected)

1. Paul, Krishnendu & Haralambous, Haris & Moses, Mefe & Oikonomou, Christina & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Bergeot, Nicolas & Chevalier, Jean-Marie. (2025). Investigation of the Ionospheric Response on Mother’s Day 2024 Geomagnetic Superstorm over the European Sector. Atmosphere. 16. 180. 10.3390/atmos16020180.

2. Sanyal, Aritra & Brawar, Bhuvnesh & Maity, Sovan & Jana, Shreyam & Polard, Jean & Newton, Peter & Williams, George & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Haralambous, Haris & Balasis, Georgios & Brundell, James & Panchadhyayee, Pradipta & Datta, Abhirup & Maurya, Ajeet & Ray, Saibal & Sasmal, Sudipta. (2025). Investigation of the Ionospheric Effects of the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024 Using Multi-Instrument Measurements. Atmosphere. 16. 161. 10.3390/atmos16020161.

3. Hayakawa, Masashi & Hirooka, Shinji & Michimoto, Koichiro & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Hobara, Yasuhide. (2025). Meteorological Anomalies During Earthquake Preparation: A Case Study for the 1995 Kobe Earthquake (M = 7.3) Based on Statistical and Machine Learning-Based Analyses. Atmosphere. 16. 88. 10.3390/atmos16010088.

4. Sanyal, Aritra & Brawar, Bhuvnesh & Maity, Sovan & Jana, Shreyam & Polard, Jean & Newton, Peter & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Haralambous, Haris & Balasis, Georgios & Brundell, James & Panchadhyayee, Pradipta & Datta, Abhirup & Maurya, Ajeet & Ray, Saibal & Sasmal, Sudipta. (2024). Investigation of the Ionospheric Effects of the Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024 Using Multi-Instrument Measurements. 10.20944/preprints202412.2211.v1.

5. Zitis, Pavlos & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Alexandridis, Alex. (2024). Forecasting Forex Market Volatility Using Deep Learning Models and Complexity Measures. Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 17. 557. 10.3390/jrfm17120557.                                             

6. Politis, Dimitrios & Sasmal, Sudipta & Hayakawa, Masashi & Haralambous, Haris & Datta, Abhirup & POTIRAKIS, Stelios. (2024). A Six-Year (2014–2020) Statistical Correlation Study of VLF Terminator Time Shift with Earthquakes in Japan. Remote Sensing. 16. 10.3390/rs16224162.

7. Balasis, Georgios & De Santis, Angelo & Papadimitriou, Constantinos & Boutsi, Adamantia & Cianchini, Gianfranco & Giannakis, Omiros & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Mandea, Mioara. (2024). Swarm Investigation of Ultra-Low-Frequency (ULF) Pulsation and Plasma Irregularity Signatures Potentially Associated with Geophysical Activity. Remote Sensing. 16. 3506. 10.3390/rs16183506.         

8. Sasmal, Sudipta & Chowdhury, Swati & Kundu, Subrata & Ghosh, Soujan & Politis, Dimitrios & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2024). Multi-parametric study of seismogenic anomalies during the 2021 Crete earthquake (M = 6.0). Annals of Geophysics. 66. 646. 10.4401/ag-8992.

9. Ghosh, Soujan & Sasmal, Sudipta & Maity, Sovan & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2024). Thermal Anomalies Observed during the Crete Earthquake on 27 September 2021. Geosciences. 14. 73. 10.3390/geosciences14030073.                                                    

10. POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Contoyiannis, Yiannis. (2024). Indications for an alternative breaking of symmetry in fracture-induced electromagnetic emissions recorded prior to the 2023 Mw7.8 and Mw7.5 Turkey Earthquakes. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 639. 129685. 10.1016/j.physa.2024.129685.

11. Malkotsis, Philopimin & Papadopoulos, Nikolaos & Politis, Dimitrios & Dimakos, Dionysios & Exarhos, Michael & Liadopoulos, Efstratios & Contoyiannis, Yiannis & Charitopoulos, Angelos & Kontakos, Kyriakos & Koulouras, Gregory & Melis, Nikolaos & Eftaxias, K. & POTIRAKIS, Stelios. (2023). ELSEM-Net, a network of ground-based telemetric stations for the monitoring of fracture-induced electromagnetic emissions in Greece: Instrumentation, management and analysis of recent observations associated with strong earthquakes. Annals of Geophysics. 66. SE638. 10.4401/ag-8985.

12. Politis, Dimitrios & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Contoyiannis, Yiannis & Potamitis, Ilyas & Sasmal, Sudipta & Yang, Shih-Sian & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2023). Lower-ionosphere anomalies prior to strong earthquakes that occurred in north-central mainland Greece on March 2021 as revealed by multi-method analysis of VLF sub-ionospheric propagation data. Annals of Geophysics. 66. SE645. 10.4401/ag-8986.

13. POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Biagi, P. & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2023). Preface Special Issue: Developments in Earthquake Precursors Studies. Annals of Geophysics. 66. SE634. 10.4401/ag-9089.

14. Zitis, Pavlos & Kakinaka, Shinji & Umeno, Ken & Stavrinides, Stavros & Hanias, Michael & POTIRAKIS, Stelios. (2023). The Impact of COVID-19 on Weak-Form Efficiency in Cryptocurrency and Forex Markets. Entropy. 25. 1622. 10.3390/e25121622.

15. Politis, Dimitrios & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Sasmal, Sudipta & Mondal, Debrupa & Hobara, Yasuhide & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2023). Criticality analysis of VLF subionospheric propagation data prior to recent (2021- 2022), strong (M ≥ 5.5), earthquakes occurred in the southeastern Mediterranean.

16. Contoyiannis, Y. & Papadopoulos, Pericles & Matiadou, Niki-Lina & Stavrinides, Stavros & Hanias, Michael & POTIRAKIS, Stelios. (2023). “Criticality” in the counting function of prime numbers: Theory and application to nuclear magic numbers. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 173. 113781. 10.1016/j.chaos.2023.113781.

17. POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Papadopoulos, Pericles & Matiadou, Niki-Lina & Hanias, Michael & Stavrinides, Stavros & Balasis, Georgios & Contoyiannis, Y.. (2023). Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Systems Obeying the Dynamics of On–Off Intermittency and Presenting Bimodal Amplitude Distributions. Symmetry. 15. 1448. 10.3390/sym15071448.

18. Politis, Dimitrios & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Contoyiannis, Y. & Sasmal, Sudipta & Yang, Shih-Sian & Hayakawa, Masashi. (2023). Criticality analysis of the VLF recordings prior to two strong earthquakes that happened in central Greece on March of 2021.                                                

19. Balasis, Georgios & Boutsi, Adamantia & Papadimitriou, Constantinos & POTIRAKIS, Stelios & Pitsis, Vasilis & Daglis, Ioannis & Anastasiadis, Anastasios & Giannakis, Omiros. (2023). Investigation of Dynamical Complexity in Swarm-Derived Geomagnetic Activity Indices Using Information Theory. Atmosphere. 14. 890. 10.3390/atmos14050890.

20. Contoyiannis, Y. & Papadopoulos, Pericles & Matiadou, L. & Stavrinides, Stavros & Hanias, Michael & POTIRAKIS, Stelios. (2023). New Phenomena Beyond Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. 10.2139/ssrn.4631249.

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