Employment
- Oct. 2014 - : Director of the Research Centre for Civil Engineering Structures, City University London.
- March 2013 - : Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, City University London.
- May 2002 - Feb. 2013: Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki).
- Oct. 1998 – June 1999: Reader of Earthquake Structural Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.
- Apr. 1998 – May 2002: Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh
- May 1995 - Sep. 1998: Lecturer of Earthquake Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.
- Sep. 1992 - March 1998: Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh; on leave in 1995-96 and part-time since 1997-98.
- June 1988 - Aug. 1992: Lecturer of Concrete Structures at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki.
- Sep. 1983 - Feb. 1984: Visiting Research Fellow at the Univ. of California, Berkeley.
- May 1981 - June 1988: Teaching and Research Assistant and, since 1986, Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Concrete Structures, Civil Engng. Dept., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki.
- Nov. 1979 - Oct. 1980: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Chair of Structural Analysis, Civil Engineering Dept., Democritus Univ. of Thrace (DUTh), Xanthi, Greece.
Teaching and related responsibilities
Teaching at the Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki
Teaching at Imperial College, London
Short courses (abroad)
Supervision of projects
At AUTh (1981-1995, 1999-today) :
Continuing education - seminars
Since 1985: Invited speaker in over 60 seminars and continuing education courses for practising engineers, organized by various professional, governmental and educational institutions, on various subjects in the field of Concrete Structures and Earthquake Structural Engineering (in Greece, the UK, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Holland, Italy, Romania, Turkey).
- 1987 - today (with the exception of the academic years 1989-90, 1995-96, 1996-97, and the first semesters of 1990-91, 1997-98): Teaching of the following subjects at the Civil Engineering Dept., AUTh (some courses jointly taught with other staff members):
- “Reinforced Concrete III” (8th semester - core course); since 1988.
- "Earthquake-resistant Design and Seismic Pathology of Concrete Structures” (9th semester - optional); since 1987.
- “Earthquake-resistant Design and Seismic Assessment of Concrete Structures”, Post-graduate course; since 1998.
- "Non-linear Analysis of Concrete Structures” (10th semester - optional); since 2008.
- “Current trends in the Design of Concrete Structures” (10th semester - optional); 1992- 2008
- “Modern Methods in Concrete Design” (7th semester - optional course); 1987-1992.
Teaching at Imperial College, London
- “Structural Dynamics” (undergraduate 4th year course) 1st & 2nd term, 21h
- “Earthquake Engineering” (undergraduate 4th year course) 2nd term, 12h.
- “Design to Structural Eurocodes” (MSc course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 1st term, 24h
- “Finite Element Analysis” (MSc Course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics) 1st term, 15h
- “Design of concrete and masonry structures in seismic areas” (MSc course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 2nd term, 24h
- “Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability of Structures” (MSc Course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 2nd term, 10h.
Short courses (abroad)
- Delft University (The Netherlands): “Earthquake Εngineering – Modelling Concepts and Structural Design according to Eurocode 8”, since 2003 (every 2-3 years).
- Techn. University of Bucharest (Romania): TEMPUS CESNET Course “Aseismic Design of Buildings”, 1997.
- Techn. University of Vienna (Austria): COMETT Course / EAEE Seminar “Seismic risk and earthquake scenarios”, 1995.
Supervision of projects
At AUTh (1981-1995, 1999-today) :
- Undergraduate diploma theses: over 50 students (in the field of Concrete Structures and Earthquake Structural Engineering)
- MSc dissertations (Seismic Design of Construction Works PG course, started 1998): 25
- Exchange student projects (Erasmus-Socrates): 2
- MSc dissertations (Earthq. Engng. and Struct. Dynamics course): 12
- Undergraduate 4th year projects: 4
- Exchange student projects (UROP, Erasmus-Socrates): 3
- 1996 - 1998: Field work with MSc students at sites of recent earthquakes
Continuing education - seminars
Since 1985: Invited speaker in over 60 seminars and continuing education courses for practising engineers, organized by various professional, governmental and educational institutions, on various subjects in the field of Concrete Structures and Earthquake Structural Engineering (in Greece, the UK, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Holland, Italy, Romania, Turkey).
Research supervision
Supervisor of the following doctoral candidates in Civil Engng. Departments (sorted by award date):
Total (as per Apr. 2013): 15 completed, 2 in progress
Member of the three-member supervising committees for the following doctoral candidates (of the Civil Engng. Dept., AUTh):
Examiner (internal or external) of the following post-graduate students:
Member (outside reader) of the examiners’ panels for the following doctoral candidates in Greece:
Member of the three-member supervising committees for the following doctoral candidates (of the Civil Engng. Dept., AUTh):
- M. Alexoudi “Contribution to the analysis of the seismic vulnerability of lifelines in urban environment”, PhD awarded in Nov. 2005.
- S. Mitoulis “Concrete bridges with continuous deck slab” PhD awarded in Mar. 2008.
- Ch. Panagiotopoulos “The boundary element method formulated in terms of velocity, using the reciprocality theorem” PhD awarded in Oct. 2009
- S. Argyroudis “Seismic vulnerability assessment of transport networks and infrastructures” PhD apporoved July 2010.
- Κ. Kakderi “Seismic assessment of lifelines”
- G. Dougalis “Methods for assessing the capacity of existing structures and design of their strengthening against seismic actions”
- Ε. Katsanos “Application of Informatics and new technologies to Earthquake Engineering”
- O. Taskari “Accounting for Soil-structure interaction in the analysis of bridges subject to seismic loading”
Examiner (internal or external) of the following post-graduate students:
- P. Kumar, PhD thesis “Behavior of integral abutment bridges under temperature effect and seismic excitation”, India Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2008.
- R. Apostolska-Petrusevska, PhD thesis “Application of High-strength Concrete in Design of Seismically Resistant Structures”, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, 2003.
- S. Koukleri, PhD thesis “Inelastic earthquake response and design of mutlistorey torsionally unbalanced structures” University College, London, 2000.
- L.M. Salvitti, MPhil thesis “Analytical assessment of EC8-designed buildings” Imperial College, London, 1998.
Member (outside reader) of the examiners’ panels for the following doctoral candidates in Greece:
- V. Tsingelis, AUTh (Comparative assessment of simplified methods for inelastic analysis of structures subjected to seismic loading, focussing on a systematic treatment and improvement of the spectral pushover analysis, 2009)
- Α. Kotsoglou, DUTh (Modelling interaction of bridge with surrounding ground in the framework of displacement-based seismic design), 2009.
- Ι. Arethas, AUTh (Nonlinear static analysis of cable-stayed bridges using truss models, 2009).
- V. Tsiggelis, AUTh (Comparative assessment of simplified methods for pushover analysis of structures subjected to earthquake loading, 2009).
- I. Zararis, AUTh (Shear strength of stiff squat reinforced concrete walls, 2008)
- A. Ambatzis, AUTh (Pushover analysis of metal structures under seismic loading, using direct plasticity methods, 2008).
- E. Paraskevopoulos, AUTh (Development of finite elements for the dynamic non-linear analysis of 2D structures, 2005)
- Κ. Morfidis, AUTh (Development of methodologies for modelling foundation members and soil, 2003)
- T. Panagiotakos, Univ. of Patras (Deformation-based seismic design of R/C structures, 1998)
- G. Apostolidis, AUTh (Development of a methodology for the finite element analysis of pipeline systems under static and dynamic loading, 1995)
- T. Makarios, AUTh (Fictitious elastic axis of dual multistorey buildings, 1994)
- Α. Anastasiadis, AUTh (Dynamic characteristics of typical Greek soils, 1994)
- P. Papadopoulos, AUTh (Optimisation of seismic damage indices, 1993)
- C. Ignatakis, AUTh (Response of masonry walls under monotonic loading to failure, 1991)
- C. Athanassiadou, AUTh (Seismic behaviour of SDOF systems in contact, 1991)
- T. Valiasis, AUTh (Cyclic loading of infilled R/C frames-Experimental study and analytical model for the infill, 1989).