Κυριαζής
Πιτιλάκης
Τμήμα Πολιτικών Μηχανικών
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Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has more than forty five years of intensive academic, research and professional experience in civil, earthquake and geotechnical engineering. President (2018-2022) and since 2022 Vice President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE) (www.eaee.org), ex-Chairman of the Technical Committee “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Associated Problems” (TC203) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), past President of the Greek Society of Earthquake Engineering, and past president of the Department of Civil Engineering of Aristotle University, he is presently Professor Emeritus in Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece and since 2019 visiting Professor in Tongji University, ILEE, Shanghai, China.
With almost 700 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings (h-index 69) he is according to recent Stanford classification among the top 10 leading researchers in Civil Engineering in Greece, and among the top 10 leading researchers worldwide in Soil Dynamics, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology. His scientific and research interests cover a wide range of topics from soil dynamics, site effects, engineering seismology, seismic hazard and risk, to various topics in geotechnical earthquake engineering from the seismic design, to the vulnerability and risk assessment of buildings, tunnels, infrastructures and geotechnical structures. Founder of the experimental site EUROSEISTEST (http://euroseisdb.civil.auth.gr) he has very long and worldwide recognized record in national, European and international research projects.
He has been consultant in important construction projects in Greece, France, Turkey and Middle East. Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has been invited keynote lecturer in many national, European, international and world conferences, including recently the European Conference in Earthquake Engineering and the World Conference of Tunnels (2023). He is member of Technical Committees and Working Groups for the revision of Eurocode 8 (Part 1-Seismic Actions and Part 5-Seismic Design of Foundations, Retaining Structures, Soil-Structure interaction, Liquefaction, Slope Stability and Underground Structures). Many of his thirty one PhD and post-doc students hold academic and research positions in Greece and abroad, namely in China, Italy, UK, France, Egypt and Hong-Kong. Honors: Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, French Republic.
1. Aimilios Comodromos, 1991, Contribution to the analysis of excavations with the finite element method
2. Anastasios Anastasiadis, 1994, Dynamic characteristics of typical Greek soils
3. Dimitris Raptakis, 1995, Contribution to the determination of the geometry and the dynamic characteristics of soil formations and their seismic response
4. Giorgos Mavridis, 1995, Contribution to the seismic analysis and seismic design of underground pipelines
5. S. Tolis, 1997, Assessment of the seismic reliability of lifeline networks
6. Konstantia Makra, 2000, Contribution to the evaluation of site response for complex soil structure (Euroseistest valley) using experimental and theoretical approaches
7. Anastasios Sextos, 2001, Effect of spatial variability, site effects and soil-structure interaction in the inelastic dynamic analysis of R/C bridges
8. Paschalis Apostolidis, 2001, Determination of the soil structure using microtremors. Application to the estimation of the dynamic properties and the geometry of the soil formations in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece
9. Polikseni Kallioglou, 2003, Study of dynamic properties of soils using the resonant-column apparatus
10. Maria Alexoudi, 2005, Contribution to seismic assessment of lifelines in urban areas: development of holistic methodology for seismic risk assessment
11. Emmanuil Kirtas, 2007, Numerical investigation of structural seismic behavior enhancement applying interventions to the subsiol conditions
12. Maria Manakou, 2007, Contribution to the determination of a three dimensional model for studying seismic response: application to the Mygdonian basin
13. Emmanuil Rovithis, 2007, Dynamic analysis of coupled soil-pile-superstructure systems
14. Sayed M. Hemeda, 2008, Contribution to an integrated methodology for the pathology assessment and protection of underground monuments in seismic regions: application on some Greek-Roman monuments in Alexandria, Egypt
15. Vasiliki Terzi, 2009, Experimental and theoretical investigation of fundamental issues on dynamic soil-foundation-superstructure interaction
16. Olga-Joan Ktenidou, 2010, Experimental and theoretical study of seismic ground motion in the city of Aegion, Greece, focusing on local site and topographic effects
17. Sotiris Argyroudis, 2010, Contribution to the seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of transportation networks in urban environment
18. Kostas Senetakis, 2011, Dynamic properties of granular soils and mixtures of typical sands and gravels with recycled synthetic materials
19. Kalliopi Kakderi, 2011, Seismic vulnerability assessment and seismic risk management of complex transportation networks. Application to port facilities.
20. Stavroula Fotopoulou, 2012, Seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete buildings in sliding slopes.
21. Konstantinos Trevlopoulos, 2014, Study of the effect of ground improvement on dynamic soil-foundation-structure interaction
22. Anna Karatzetzou, 2015, Seismic demand of reinforced concrete and masonry structures accounting for soil-foundation-structure interaction in the light of performance based design
23. Grigorios Tsinidis, 2015, On the seismic behavior and design of tunnels
24. Achilleas Pistolas, 2015, Experimental and numerical investigation of the implementation of recycled materials mixtures in the foundation of structures for the improvement of seismic behavior
25. Sotiria Karapetrou, 2015, Seismic vulnerability of reinforced concrete buildings considering aging and soil-structure interaction effects
26. Evi Riga, 2015, New elastic spectra, site amplification factors and aggravation factors for complex subsurface geology, towards the improvement of Eurocode 8
27. Song Binqui, 2017, Study on the Dynamic Properties of Lanzhou Loess and Associated Site Response Analysis
28. Angelos Tsinaris, 2018, Experimental and numerical investigation of improving the seismic response of retaining structures with backfill of mixtures of lightweight materials
29. Dimitra Manou, 2018, The role of site-effects in the assessment of strong ground motion and microzonation studies. Application to the city of Duzce, Turkey
30. Zhongkai Huang, 2020. Seismic fragility and resilience analysis of shield tunnels in soft soils. Tongji University
31. Astha Poudel, 2024, Evaluation of the systemic vulnerability and risk of interconnected systems at urban scale
2007: Ιππότης της Λεγεώνας του Φοίνικα Ακαδημαϊκών Γραμμάτων, Γαλλική Δημοκρατία