Speakers

Philippe Bisch is Civil engineer, graduate of the French “Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées” in 1971. He is a specialist in structural analysis, Professor in charge of various courses in Structural Mechanics. In parallel, he has spent his entire professional career in engineering, currently in the EGIS group, participating in major structure projects and research works. He was formerly President of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and is now Chairman of CEN sub-committee TC250/SC8 in charge of elaborating Eurocode 8. He was also involved in CEN committee

Matjaž Dolšek is Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Civil Engineering at Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, where he leads the research program Earthquake Engineering. His research focuses on the performance-based seismic design of structures using probabilistic methods with consideration of the seismic performance of the built environment. Dolšek contributed to seven EU-funded projects and more than 30 engineering projects. Currently, he is involved in two European projects (BORIS, METIS) and teaches six courses at all three levels of study. He was a mentor at nine and co-mentor at four doctorates. He is a member of the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers and the Slovenian Institute for Standardization technical committees. In the context of the EAEE participate in working groups WG1 and WG13. He was a member of Project Team 1 of CEN / TC250 / SC8.

Alain Pecker graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of California, at Berkeley. Until 2015 he was Chairman and Managing Director of Géodynamique et Structure, a French engineering consulting firm in Earthquake Engineering that he founded; upon retiring he became independent consultant. He has been consultant to major worldwide civil engineering projects in seismic areas. He is also Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and teaches at the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (IUSS of Pavia, Italy). Alain Pecker is Past President of the French Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Honorary President of the French Association on Earthquake Engineering, member of the executive committee of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and President of the French Committee for seismic codes. He was PT leader for the revision of EN 1998-5. He is a Member of the French National Academy of Technologies.

Amir M. Kaynia is Technical Specialist at Norconsult AS, and Professor of Structural Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His areas of research and engineering practice include earthquake engineering, foundation design and soil-structure interaction. He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings, has authored six book chapters and edited a book, and has held numerous keynote lectures. He has led major national and international design projects onshore and offshore and has coordinated several research projects funded by the European Commission and the Norwegian Research Council related to earthquake engineering, offshore wind energy and dynamic of high-speed lines. He is chairman of the earthquake engineering committee for Norwegian National Standards.

António A. Correia is a researcher at the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC). Among his research activities are the development of seismic risk and structural vulnerability/fragility studies, structural and geotechnical design methodologies, as well as conducting shaking table and other lab and in situ tests for the seismic assessment of structures. He also developed and implemented numerous innovative numerical tools. He received several scientific awards and delivered invited lectures at a number of scientific events, having published a large number of technical and scientific papers and reports. Additionally, he regularly lectures at different national and international universities, performs consultancy work as an expert on seismic risk, and designs buildings, bridges and other structures. He currently serves as Technical Secretary of CEN/TC 250/SC 8, strongly contributing to the preparation of the next generation of Eurocode 8, being additionally a member of several Working Groups in that field. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the EFEHR Consortium (European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk).

Luigi Callisto is a full professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza, teaching Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He obtained a doctorate in Geotechnical Engineering in 1996 and became an assistant professor at La Sapienza in 2000, where he served as the head of the Geotechnical Laboratory until 2010. His recent research activity is related to the performance of deep excavations, the seismic design of earth retaining structures, the evaluation of the seismic performance of earth dams, and the effects of soil-structure interaction for bridge foundations and abutments. He was a member of the Project Team 4 of CEN/TC250/SC8.

André Plumier is an Honorary Professor of the University of Liege, where he was the head of the earthquake research group. He participated in more than twenty research projects in earthquake engineering and hybrid structures. He conceived the dogbone or reduced beam section, a detail for the ductility of steel structures. He was active as support in projects in Algeria and Turkey involving seismic design, assessment and retrofitting. He gave seminars on seismic design in companies in many countries. He was one of the experts who have built up the 2004 version of Eurocode 8. He actually contributes to the revision of that document: after being leader of Project Team 2 (buildings), he is now a member of the Management Group of CEN TC250 SC8 in charge of finalizing the revised Eurocode 8.

Radu Văcăreanu graduated Civil Engineering in 1991 from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He got his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (UTCB) in 1999 in the field of seismic risk assessment. Currently, he is Professor of Structural Reliability and Seismic Risk Analysis at UTCB. Radu Văcăreanu is President of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE), National Delegate of Romania at the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) and Executive President of the National Commission for Earthquake Engineering of Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration of Romania. In between 2002 and 2008 he served as the director of the National Centre for Seismic Risk Reduction, implementing the JICA (Japan Technical Cooperation Agency) Project on Seismic Risk Reduction for Buildings and Structures in Romania. Radu Văcăreanu participated in international projects and coordinated national projects aiming at seismic risk reduction. He published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences proceedings. His research interest covers mainly the seismic hazard, fragility and risk analyses. Since March 2016 he serves as Rector of the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest.

Humberto Varum is full professor and director of the PhD Program in Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal. He has been Seconded National Expert to the ELSA laboratory, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Italy, in the period July 2009 to August 2010. Since May 2015, he is member of the directorate body of the Construction Institute from the University of Porto, and President since May 2019. He was member of the Project Team 2 for the development of the 2^nd generation of EN Eurocodes (SC8.T2 – material dependent sections of EN 1998-1). He has participated to post-earthquake field reconnaissance missions, in particular in L’Aquila (Italy, 2009), Lorca (Spain, 2011), Emilia-Romagna (Italy, 2012), Gorkha (Nepal, 2015) and Puebla (Mexico, 2017).

Raffaele Landolfo PhD, Engineer, is Full Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” since 2003 and former Head of Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture. His teaching activities include, among others, the courses of Theory and Design of Steel Structures in the School of Engineering and Structural Design in the School of Architecture. As for scientific research, he coordinated and participated in several national and international research projects in the field of seismic design of steel structures, cold-formed members, lightweight steel construction, connections and life-cycle engineering. Author of several books and book chapters, he published more than 300 scientific papers, mostly on international journals, serving also the Editorial Boards of many scientific journals. He is currently Chairman of the ECCS Technical Committee n.13 Seismic Design, Convenor of WG2 – Steel and Composite Structures within CEN/TC250/SC8 Committee as well as President of UNI/Structural Engineering Committee, that is the italian mirror committee of CEN/TC250. He is also co-inventor of four patents in the field of steel constructions.

Katrin Beyer is Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory (http://eesd.epfl.ch). After completing her undergraduate studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), she worked for two years for the consulting firm ARUP in London, UK, on projects related to structural dynamics, impact and seismic analysis. She received her PhD from the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include the seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete walls and of unreinforced masonry structures and large-scale structural testing. She is member of the executive committee of the European Association for Earthquake Engineering and was responsible for the revision of the masonry section of the European seismic design code (Eurocode 8 Part 1). She is an advocate of open science, publishing next to manuscripts also relevant experimental data and models (https://eesd.epfl.ch/data_sets/,https://zenodo.org/communities/eesd_at_epfl/about/, https://github.com/eesd-epfl). Since September 2020, she is associate dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL.

Christoph Butenweg is Professor for Technical Mechanics and Structural Engineering at the FH Aachen- University of Applied Sciences, Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade, Visiting Lecturer at RWTH Aachen University and Business Manager and Associate of the engineering company SDA-engineering GmbH. He is member of the executive board of the Center for Wind and Earthquake Engineering (CWE) at RWTH Aachen University, which combines and guides the interdisciplinary teaching and research activities at the RWTH Aachen University in the fields of wind and earthquake engineering. He is leader of the PT 5 for the evolution of Eurocode 8, Prat 4 and 6 and member of the Executive Board of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering. He is member of the code committee NA 005-51-06, chairman of the committee task group NA 005-06-37 AA,  chairman of the international conference SEDIF (Seismic design of industrial facilities) and member of the Research Advisory Board of German Committee for Masonry Construction e. V. (DAfM).

Fabrizio Paolacci is Associate professor in Structural Engineering at the Roma Tre University – Department of Engineering, whose main scientific interests are mainly focused on risk assessment and mitigation strategies for civil and industrial infrastructures subjected to natural hazards. He has gained a long-standing experience in managing national and international research project, dealing with seismic risk of hazardous industrial facilities, acquiring a specific expertise about the static and dynamic response of industrial equipment. He also acquired an important professional experience within a wide consulting activity for major worldwide players, like ENI Spa, working for example in one of the biggest upstream plants in Europe. He is also the founder of the Spinoff SAFEPLANT srl in Na-tech risk assessment of hazardous plants. He assumed for 4 years the role of Chair of the Seismic Engineering Technical committee of the ASME PVP division. He is also currently the chair of the Working Group 13 (Seismic assessment, design and resilience of industrial facilities) of European Association of Earthquake Engineering. Finally, he is author of more than 150 papers on international peer-review journals and conferences.

Roberto Nascimbene is Associate Professor at University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) in Pavia. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at University of Pavia where he has been Adjunct Professor since 2005 teaching “Shells and tanks analysis and design” and “Analysis and design of steel structures”. Prior to joining IUSS, he was the Head of the Building and Infrastructure Department at EUCENTRE. Prof. Nascimbene has authored +100 peer-reviewed publications in international journals, national magazines and conference proceedings; he co-authored four books, the first on shell/tank structures, the second on existing precast structures, the third on temporary housing and the last one on the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings. He is a “National committee member” in European UNI/CT 021/SC 03 “Steel Structures” and “National observer”in UNI/CT 021/GL 06 “Robustness”; he is a Member of the Project Team SC8.T5 – Evolution of EN 1998-4 and EN 1998-6 “M/515 phase 3 or 4” and of the Working Group DT CNR “Safety in Non-structural elements”. He is also a member of the Regional Seismic Commission (Lombardia), of the Council of the Order of Engineers (Pavia) and of the Fabbriceria del Duomo of Pavia. He has been the coordinator for more than ten years of professional training courses at the Eucentre, organizing nearly a hundred seminars. He has been involved, both for research but also for professional activities, in seismic vulnerability of industrial plants, reinforced concrete, steel, wood and precast buildings, tanks, robustness and progressive collapse of structures under extreme actions, modeling and advanced nonlinear numerical analyses.

Charles Fernandez graduated in 2002 as an engineer from Ecole Centrale Nantes and Escuela Tecnica Superior Ingenieros Industriales Madrid (ERASMUS program) and obtained his PhD in stochastic mechanics from Université Paris-Est (now Gustave Eiffel University). He worked in R&D departments in the industry and joined the French Association for Earthquake Engineering (AFPS) to update the regulatory French guidelines to design and assess pipelines regarding seismic loading. He was elected in the scientific committee of the AFPS for two terms. He was contracted by CEN to the PT5 group to update EN1998-4 on pipelines. He has been working for GRTgaz (French gas transmission operator) for 5 years and occupies now the position of policy manager for the inspection and maintenance of pipelines.

Dimitrios Vamvatsikos Dr. Vamvatsikos holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering (1997) from NTU Athens, and an MSc (1998) and PhD (2002) from Stanford University. He holds the position of Associate Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, where he focuses on integrating structural modeling, computational techniques, probabilistic concepts and experimental results into a coherent framework for the performance and risk assessment of structures and infrastructure subject to natural hazards. He has co-operated with leading structural engineering firms, the oil industry, catastrophe risk modelers, and the insurance/reinsurance industry. He has co-authored guidelines for the Applied Technology Council, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. He is currently involved in the evolution of Eurocode 8, focusing on the seismic design of industrial facilities.

Andreas Kappos is a Professor at Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi), where he is leading the Structures group of the Civil Infrastructure Engineering Department. Previously he held appointments at Imperial College and at City, University of London and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a world-leading researcher and consultant in the field of structural engineering, particularly bridges and seismic design of structures. He has long been working in this field on topics like analysis procedures for structures (reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, and bridges) subjected to earthquake loading, and developed several methods and models for seismic assessment (both deterministic and probabilistic) of these structures, as well as design procedures based on the use of modern analysis tools. He was also involved in experimental work on the behaviour of reinforced concrete members subjected to cyclic loading, with emphasis on structural walls with special types of reinforcement and/or retrofitted using fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPs) and, more recently, steel-reinforced polymers (SRPs). He developed new approaches for the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of existing structures and the associated losses and was involved in several projects on seismic risk assessment and earthquake scenarios for European cities and other structural engineering issues. He is the author or co-author of three books in English, and another two in Greek, edited three collective work volumes and has contributed several chapters to books edited by others. He has published extensively in the field of Earthquake Structural Engineering and related fields (over 400 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings), and his work was recognized internationally.  In addition to his academic activities, he has been involved in several consultancies on topics like the seismic design of bridges and buildings, the assessment and retrofit of damaged structures, and various aspects of the use of concrete in bridges, tunnels, and other civil engineering works. Dr. Kappos is the Secretary General of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) since 2010 and the Coordinator of the EAEE Working Group on Bridges since 2004. He has also served as a member of a number of scientific committees dealing with seismic design and assessment; he recently led the Project Team that drafted the new Eurocode 8 Part 3 and is currently a member of the Eurocode 8 Management Group.
Website (Khalifa University): https://www.ku.ac.ae/college-people/andreas-kappos

Paolo Franchin is Full Professor of Structural Design and Earthquake Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. His research in the broader field of earthquake engineering, focuses on bridges, assessment and retrofit of existing  buildings, safety formats and seismic risk. He led CEN/TC250/SC8/T6 Project team for the revision of Eurocode 8 Part 2 ” Design of structures for earthquake resistance – Part 2: Bridges”, was member of SC8/T3 for the revision of Eurocode 8 Part 3 “Assessment and retrofitting of buildings” and CEN/TC250/SC10/Ad hoc group on “Reliability bases of the Eurocodes”. Currently, he is member of the Management group of SC8 and of the ministerial committee for the revision of the Italian technical normative (NTC). He is also Convener of the fib TG2.7 Seismic Design and Member of Action Group on Seismic design of TG10 “Model Code 2020”, and member of the Editorial Board of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. He has extensive consulting experience in special problems involving seismic design, assessment and retrofit of existing bridges and buildings.

Tatjana Isaković is a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests have focused on the seismic analysis, design and retrofit of different RC structures (precast buildings, bridges, walls) and base-isolated structures. She co-authored more than 250 publications in journals, proceedings at various conferences, and books and has supervised or co-supervised 11 PhD theses. She was a Fulbright scholar. She was a member of project team PT3, which prepared the draft of the new version of Eurocode 8, Part 3. She is the President of the Slovenian Technical Committee for Structures SIST/TC, a Slovenian national delegate at CEN/TC 250/SC 8, a member of EAEE WG11 » Seismic Design, Assessment, and Retrofit of Bridges« and International Wall Institute.

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Christis Chrysostomou is a Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology since the beginning of 2008 and he was a lecturer at the Higher Technical Institute in Nicosia from 1990 to the end of 2007. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology from November 2011 to February 2017 and as Vice-Rector of Financial Planning and Development from February 2017 to December 2019. His research interests concentrate on earthquake engineering topics such as the analysis and design of structures subjected to earthquake loads, the capacity assessment and retrofitting of existing structures, as well as in-situ measurement of the dynamic characteristics of structures and monuments and their health monitoring. He participated in the committee for the development of the Cyprus Seismic Code, which was introduced in 1992. He represents Cyprus in the Technical Council of the Federation International du Beton (fib), in the TC250-Structural Eurocodes of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), and in the Technical Committee for the development of the European Standard for the Design of structures for earthquake resistance (EC8). He was also a member of Project Team 3 for the revision of Eurocode 8-part 3 for the Seismic Assessment and Retrofitting of Buildings and Bridges. He was the chairman of the Technical Committee for the preparation of the National Annexes of Eurocodes and their introduction to Cyprus through legislation and training courses to engineers, and he is currently the Chairman of the Cyprus Standards Technical Committee 18 which is the mirror committee of CEN/TC250 for Structural Eurocodes.

Dimitrios Lignos Dimitrios Lignos is a Professor and Chair of the Civil Engineering Institute at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He joined EPFL in 2016 from McGill University, Canada, where he was a tenured Associated Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral researcher at Kyoto University (2010) and Stanford University (2009). He has degrees in Structural Engineering (Stanford University, M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2008) and Civil Engineering (NTU, Athens, 5-year Diploma 2003). Prof. Lignos’s research involves integrated computational modeling and large-scale experimentation for the fundamental understanding and simulating of earthquake-induced collapse of steel and composite-steel structures. His awards include the 2022 Raymond Reese Research Prize and the 2019 Walter L. Huber Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) among others. He was responsible for the revision of the steel and composite steel concrete structures in Eurocode 8 Parts 1-1 and 1-2, the revision of the new Chapter 9 of Eurocode 8 Part 3 for the development of seismic assessment models for existing steel and composite steel structures. Moreover, he was the convenor of the European Committee Standardization for the development of the new Technical Specification for characterization and qualification of structural components for seismic applications by means of cyclic tests. Prof. Lignos is a member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) S16 technical committee for Steel Structures. He is regularly involved as a NEHRP consultant in research-to-practice projects related to the nonlinear modelling and analysis of structures applicable to the engineering practice through the Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the National Institute of Standards (NIST) and Technology in the US.

Ivan Giongo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Trento, where he researches various topics related to the reduction of the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings and the design of timber structures. Within this framework, he has been involved in several national (e.g., PRIN, ReLUIS, ARMIS, AV-X, NexTimber) and international projects (e.g., ARV, ERIES-STRONG, TimberEDU), both research and industry-based. Ivan’s research is characterized by extensive experimental activity, with the execution of tests on full-scale structural components, both in the laboratory and on-site. He is a member of the governing board of the Materials and Structures Testing Laboratory of the University of Trento. He is also a member of various standardization committees at the national and international level (e.g., CEN/TC 250/SC 05/WG 08 “Eurocode 5 – Design of timber structures”; CEN/TC 250/SC 08/WG 03 “Eurocode 8 – Design of seismic resistance of structures”, “ASCE/SEI 41 Seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings”). He has supervised 9 PhD students and over 100 Master’s Students. Author of patents in the field of structural engineering, he has more than 80 scientific publications to his credit and participation in various editorial boards of scientific journals relevant to the field, such as Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers -Structures and Buildings.

Sergio Lagomarsino is professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Genoa, since 2000. He is the author of many journals papers and chapters of scientific books on the following topics: seismic assessment of existing structures, nonlinear modelling of masonry buildings, preservation of cultural heritage and historical centres, seismic risk and vulnerability analysis. He has coordinated the European project PERPETUATE on the seismic assessment and protection of cultural heritage assets, as well as many other national projects. At present, he is coordinating the project MARS (Seismic damage and risk maps of the Italian building stock), funded by the Civil Protection Agency and the ReLUIS Consortium. He sits on the editorial board of “Earthquakes and Structures”, “International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation”, and “Ingegneria Sismica – International Journal of Earthquake Engineering”. He has served in the panels for the revision of Eurocode 8, Part 3: “Assessment and retrofitting of buildings”, and for the drafting of the “Italian Guidelines for the assessment and preservation of cultural heritage in seismic areas”. He developed the software program TREMURI, for the nonlinear seismic analysis of masonry buildings, and the Italian survey form for post-earthquake damage assessment of churches.

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Dr Telemachos Panagiotakos is CEO and Head of the Bridge Design and Special Projects Department of DENCO Structural Engineering PC. He worked as Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Patras, Greece (1998, 2001) and at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy  (1999-2000). His main research interests are focused on the Earthquake Engineering, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Seismic Isolation, Bridges and Computational Mechanics. He has extensive experience in the study of complex technical projects both in Greece and abroad as well as in research on earthquake engineering. He has been involved in the structural design of all types of bridges, building complexes as well as in the assessment and structural upgrading of existing structures. He was a lecturer at the Department of Architectural Engineering of the University of Patras (2001-2008). Since 2005 he has been a member of the Greek Open University Adjunct Academic Staff in the “Earthquake Engineering and Seismic-Resistant Structures” Postgraduate Program. He has been involved in both the research and drafting of Eurocode 8 (EN1998-1 and EN1998-3) as well as the Greek Code of Structural Interventions (KAN.EPE.). He is National Representative to the Eurocode 8 Committee “Earthquake Resistance Design of Structures” of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN/TC250/SC8),  member of the Horizontal Group Bridges within CEN/TC250. He is also member of several scientific organizations (Technical Chamber of Greece, SPME, ETAM, FIB, ASCE etc.).
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Paolo Franchin is Full Professor of Structural Design and Earthquake Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. His research in the broader field of earthquake engineering, focuses on bridges, assessment and retrofit of existing  buildings, safety formats and seismic risk. He led CEN/TC250/SC8/T6 Project team for the revision of Eurocode 8 Part 2 ” Design of structures for earthquake resistance – Part 2: Bridges”, was member of SC8/T3 for the revision of Eurocode 8 Part 3 “Assessment and retrofitting of buildings” and CEN/TC250/SC10/Ad hoc group on “Reliability bases of the Eurocodes”. Currently, he is member of the Management group of SC8 and of the ministerial committee for the revision of the Italian technical normative (NTC). He is also Convener of the fib TG2.7 Seismic Design and Member of Action Group on Seismic design of TG10 “Model Code 2020”, and member of the Editorial Board of Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. He has extensive consulting experience in special problems involving seismic design, assessment and retrofit of existing bridges and buildings.

Andreas Kappos is a Professor at Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi), where he is leading the Structures group of the Civil Infrastructure Engineering Department. Previously he held appointments at Imperial College and at City, University of London and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a world-leading researcher and consultant in the field of structural engineering, particularly bridges and seismic design of structures. He has long been working in this field on topics like analysis procedures for structures (reinforced concrete and masonry buildings, and bridges) subjected to earthquake loading, and developed several methods and models for seismic assessment (both deterministic and probabilistic) of these structures, as well as design procedures based on the use of modern analysis tools. He was also involved in experimental work on the behaviour of reinforced concrete members subjected to cyclic loading, with emphasis on structural walls with special types of reinforcement and/or retrofitted using fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPs) and, more recently, steel-reinforced polymers (SRPs). He developed new approaches for the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of existing structures and the associated losses and was involved in several projects on seismic risk assessment and earthquake scenarios for European cities and other structural engineering issues. He is the author or co-author of three books in English, and another two in Greek, edited three collective work volumes and has contributed several chapters to books edited by others. He has published extensively in the field of Earthquake Structural Engineering and related fields (over 400 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings), and his work was recognized internationally.  In addition to his academic activities, he has been involved in several consultancies on topics like the seismic design of bridges and buildings, the assessment and retrofit of damaged structures, and various aspects of the use of concrete in bridges, tunnels, and other civil engineering works. Dr. Kappos is the Secretary General of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) since 2010 and the Coordinator of the EAEE Working Group on Bridges since 2004. He has also served as a member of a number of scientific committees dealing with seismic design and assessment; he recently led the Project Team that drafted the new Eurocode 8 Part 3 and is currently a member of the Eurocode 8 Management Group.
Website (Khalifa University): https://www.ku.ac.ae/college-people/andreas-kappos

Denis Davi

Denis Davi is a chief bridge engineer at Cerema. Graduate from the French State Public Works Engineering School ENTPE and the University of California San Diego as part of a Master’s degree in Earthquake Engineering, he has solid experience in the field of design and calculation engineering structures and nationally recognized expertise in the evaluation and consideration of seismic risks on bridge structures and civil engineering works.
His expertise has led him to contribute for more than 20 years to numerous large-scale projects for the design or repair of structures and to lead the drafting of several technical reference guidelines on the issue of taking into account seismic risks on bridges. He is an active member of the French Association of Earthquake Engineering (AFPS) and the convenor of the national bridges mirror group of the French Earthquake Engineering Standardization Commission. He is also involved at the European level in the revision of the Eurocode 8 earthquake standards as WG6 convenor on PT6 member. Those activities led him to be qualified as an international expert by the French engineering works committee in 2018 and to be awarded the AFPS prize in 2019, the AFGC prize in 2020 and the medal of gold from the French national committee of the World Road Association (PIARC) in 2022 as well as an honorary mention for the SISMET project at the PIARC Calgary 2022 World Congress on Winter Sustainability and Road Resilience.
In recent years, it has broadened its field of expertise to take into account earthquakes on other types of civil engineering works (port infrastructures, geotechnical works, strategical buildings, etc.) and to analyze other natural risks that could threaten engineering structures, more particularly hydraulic and scour risks on which he also led the drafting of two risk assessement guidelines.

Fields of expertise
Design and calculation of Bridges and Civil Engineering works – Earthquake Engineering – Dynamics of structures – Natural risks – Scour and hydraulic risks

Dr Telemachos Panagiotakos is CEO and Head of the Bridge Design and Special Projects Department of DENCO Structural Engineering PC. He worked as Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Patras, Greece (1998, 2001) and at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy  (1999-2000). His main research interests are focused on the Earthquake Engineering, Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Seismic Isolation, Bridges and Computational Mechanics. He has extensive experience in the study of complex technical projects both in Greece and abroad as well as in research on earthquake engineering. He has been involved in the structural design of all types of bridges, building complexes as well as in the assessment and structural upgrading of existing structures. He was a lecturer at the Department of Architectural Engineering of the University of Patras (2001-2008). Since 2005 he has been a member of the Greek Open University Adjunct Academic Staff in the “Earthquake Engineering and Seismic-Resistant Structures” Postgraduate Program. He has been involved in both the research and drafting of Eurocode 8 (EN1998-1 and EN1998-3) as well as the Greek Code of Structural Interventions (KAN.EPE.). He is National Representative to the Eurocode 8 Committee “Earthquake Resistance Design of Structures” of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN/TC250/SC8),  member of the Horizontal Group Bridges within CEN/TC250. He is also member of several scientific organizations (Technical Chamber of Greece, SPME, ETAM, FIB, ASCE etc.).
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Anastasios Sextos is a Professor of Earthquake Engineering at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the Head of the Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering Research Group and the Academic Lead for the design and delivery (2018-2021) and Director (2022-) of the new £12million Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction (SoFSI) Facility of the University of Bristol. Since 2023 he holds a dual appointment at the National Technical University of Athens. He is a member of the European Project Team for the Evolution of Structural Eurocodes (SC8.T6 for EN1998/Eurocode 8, PT6 for bridges), a member of the BSI 525/8 for seismic design in the UK, the co-Chair of the Work Group 11 for bridges, the National Delegate of Greece at the European Association for Earthquake Engineering, the elected President of the Hellenic Society of Earthquake Engineering (2017-2022), a member of the ASCE “Performance-based design” Technical Committee in USA and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Earthquake Planning in Greece, responsible for Civil Protection from earthquakes. He is an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Earthquake Spectra, the Journal of Earthquake Engineering and the ASCE Journal of Pipeline Engineering. His portfolio includes more than 100 papers in quality scientific journals, 4 books and several international conference papers. He has been a Research Visitor at University California Berkeley (2007), a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012) and a High-End Expert in China (2016-2019). Anastasios’s research contributions are in the areas of experimental and computational earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, dynamic soil-structure interaction, seismic risk of critical industrial facilities and pipelines, resilience of roadway networks, earthquake ground motion scenarios including multiple-support excitation of extended structures, multi-resolution distributed simulations & hybrid testing and structural health monitoring.

ORCID: 0000-0002-2616-9395
Website: https://asextos.net/