Apostolos S. Papageorgiou

Prof. Apostolos S. Papageorgiou (Team Leader), professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Patras (UP), in Patras, Greece. Prior to joining UP in the Fall of 2004, he held appointments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as Assistant Professor and Associated Professor (with tenure) and subsequently as Professor (with tenure) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He received all his other degrees (B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Civil Eng.; M.Sc. in Mech. Eng.) from M.I.T., and he is the recipient of the ‘Richard Lee Russel Award’ of 1976 of the Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T. “in recognition of distinguished academic achievements.” Dr. Papageorgiou’s research interests lie in the areas of engineering seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics (deterministic and stochastic), structural mechanics, and include the topics related to the mechanics of earthquake rupture, ground motion synthesis (both stochastic and deterministic), seismic hazard assessment, computational mechanics. He has around 50 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has served on the editorial board of the Engineering Mechanics and Structural Engineering Journals of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), he is on also on the faculty list of the ROSE School of the University of Pavia and he has an adjunct professorship appointment at the University of Iceland. He is the recipient of the Japanese Government Research Award for Foreign Specialists. He has served on a review panel for the National Research Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Papageorgiou’s research activities over the years have been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (N.S.F.), U.S. Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.), Alaska Science and Technology Foundation.

Key Publications:

1.Dong, G. and A.S. Papageorgiou (2003). “On a New Class of Kinematic Models: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Circular and Elliptical Cracks”, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol.137, pp. 129-151. (5 citation in Scopus)

2.Halldorsson, B. and A.S. Papageorgiou (2005). “Calibration of the Specific Barrier Model to Earthquakes of Various Tectonic Regions”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 95, No.4, pp. 1276-1300. (15 citation in Scopus)

3.Meza Fajardo, K.C. and A.S. Papageorgiou (2010). “On the Stability of a Non-convolutional Perfectly Matched Layer for Isotropic Elastic Media”, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 30, pp. 68-81. (1 citation in Scopus)

4.Zhang, F. and A.S. Papageorgiou (2010). “Attenuation Characteristics of Taiwan: Estimation of Coda Q, S-wave Q, Scattering Q, Intrinsic Q, and Scattering Coefficient”, Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 81, No. 5, 769-777.

5.Halldorsson, B., G.P. Mavroeidis and A.S. Papageorgiou (2010). “Near-Fault and Far-Field Strong Ground Motion Simulation for Earthquake Engineering Applications Using the Specific Barrier Model”, Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Vol.137, No.3, pp.433-444.