Academic Career

Employment
• Since May 2002: Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki).
• Apr. 1998 – May 2002: Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh
• Oct. 1998-June 1999: Reader of Earthquake Structural Engineering at the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.
• May 1995-Sep. 1998: Lecturer (Grade B) 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., Demokritus Univ. of Thrace (DUT), Xanthi, Greece.


Teaching and related activities
Teaching at AUTh
• 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:
 “Reinforced Concrete III” (8th semester - core course).
 “Modern Methods in Concrete Design” (7th semester - optional course); since 1992.
 “Earthquake-resistant Design and Seismic Pathology of Concrete Structures” (10th semester - optional).
 “Current trends in the Design of Concrete Structures” (9th semester - optional); 1987- 1991
 “Earthquake-resistant Design of Concrete Structures”, Post-graduate course; since 1998.

Teaching at IC
Teaching of the following courses at the Dept. of Civil Engng., Imperial College:
1. “Structural Dynamics” (undergraduate 4th year course) 1st & 2nd term, 21h
2. “Earthquake Engineering” (undergraduate 4th year course) 2nd term, 12h.
3. “Design to Structural Eurocodes” (MSc course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 1st term, 24h
4. “Finite Element Analysis” (MSc Course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics) 1st term, 15h
5. “Design of concrete and masonry structures in seismic areas” (MSc course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 2nd term, 24h
6. “Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability of Structures” (MSc Course in Earthq. Engng. & Str. Dynamics), 2nd term, 10h.

Supervision of projects, etc.
At AUTh (1981-1995, 1999-today)
• Undergraduate diploma theses: over 40 students (in the field of Concrete Structures and Earthquake Structural Engineering)
• MSc dissertations (Seismic Design of Construction Works course, started 1998): 11

At IC (1995-1999)
• 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 37 seminars and short 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 (27 in Greece, 6 in the UK, 1 in Italy, 1 in Austria, 1 in Cyprus, 1 in Romania).


Administration
• Member of the Civil Engineering Committee at the Inter-university Centre for Accreditation of Academic Titles (“DIKATSA”), Athens, Greece.
Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh:
• Member of the Coordinating Committee of the MSc Course Seismic Design of Construction Works
• Member of the Committee for Educational Field Trips
• Representative of the Structural Engineering Section to the General Assembly of the Civil Engineering Department, AUTh, 1991-92, 1993-95, 2000-1.
• Member of the selection panels for eight posts of lecturers and two of assistant professors at the AUTh.
• Former Member of the Departmental Library Committee
• Former Member of the Committee of Continuing Education.
• Former Coordinator of diploma theses in the Laboratory of Concrete Structures (AUTh).

Dept. of Civil Engineering, Imperial College:
• Member of the Departmental Computing Committee
• Member of the Steering Panel for the 3rd year design project
• Editor of the Newsletter (“QuakeLink”) of the ESEE Section
• Section representative at the Departmental Strategy Team on Postgraduate Teaching
• Section representative at the Departmental Strategy Team on Computing.


Research supervision
 

¨          Supervisor of the following doctoral candidates in Civil Engng. Departments (sorted by award date):

student name	institution	role in super­vision	thesis title	awarded
Th. Salonikios	AUTh	co-supervisor	Behaviour of R/C walls subjected to cyclic loading	May 1998
C. Dymiotis	IC	co-supervisor	Seismic performance assessment and evaluation of behaviour factors in probabilistic terms	Mar. 2000
A. Sextos	AUTh	co-supervisor	Effect of spatial variability of seismic motion on the behaviour of concrete bridges	Nov. 2001
D. Konstantinidis	IC	supervisor	Seismic design and performance assessment of reinforced concrete structures made of high-strength materials	Feb. 2002
A. Manafpour	IC	supervisor (until June 1999)	Optimum capacity design methods for R/C buildings	Oct. 2002
K. Antoniades	AUTh	supervisor	Experimental and analytical study of connections of precast concrete linear elements	May 2005
A. Chlioumis	AUTh	co-supervisor	Probabilistic assessment of the seismic behaviour of R/C structures	-
Gr. Penelis	AUTh	supervisor	Analytical study of the inelastic seismic behaviour of multistorey R/C buildings with irregular configuration	expected June 2006
I. Moschonas	AUTh	supervisor	Analytical study of the seismic vulnerability of concrete bridges	-
V. Papanikolaou	AUTh	supervisor	Analytical study of the inelastic behaviour of R/C members using the finite element method	-
G. Panagopoulos	AUTh	supervisor	Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing R/C structures using advanced analytical methods	-
Th. Paraskeva	AUTh	supervisor	Inelastic analysis of the seismic response of concrete bridges	-
El. Dimitrakopoulos	AUTh	supervisor	Seismic response analysis of R/C bridges with passive protection systems	-
P. Mergos	AUTh	supervisor	Modelling of the seismic response of existing R/C buildings	-
G. Mitolides	AUTh	supervisor	Experimental investigation of the behaviour of R/C beams strengthened with FRP and steel sheets	-

Total (as per Apr. 2006): 6 completed, 9 in progress

¨         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.

·            G. Roupakias, “Seismic behaviour of concrete bridges”

·            S. Argyroudis, “Seismic vulnerability assessment of transport networks and infrastructures”

·            S. Mitoulis, “Concrete bridges with continuous deck slab”

·            K. Kakderi, “Seismic assessment of lifelines”

·            G. Dougalis, “Methods for assessing the capacity of existing structures and design of their strengthening against seismic actions”

• Examiner (internal or external) of the following post-graduate students (UK)
• Apostolska-Petrusevska, R., 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 five-member examination committees for the following doctoral candidates:
• E. Paraskevopoulos, AUTh (Development of finite elements for the dynamic non-linear analysis of 2D structures, 2005)
• K. 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 funite element analysis of pipeline systems under static and dynamic loading, 1995)
• T. Makarios, AUTh (Fictitious elastic axis of dual multistorey buildings, 1994)
• A. 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).