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Sotiria Stefanidou
Brief Curriculum Vitae
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Dr Civil Engineer AUTh Social Media Presence: ResearchGate, Orcid, Google Scholar |
Education
- Diploma in Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006).
- MSc in Earthquake engineering and seismic design of structures, AUTh, (2007)
- MSc in Natural disasters and climate change, Hellenic Open University (Short Course, 2019)
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016).
- Post-Doc in Earthquake Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017-today).
- Languages: English (Proficiency), German (Mittelstufe), French (Sorbonne I)
- Certificates: Certified teacher for distance learning
Research Fields and Areas of Interest
Seismic fragility of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- Earthquake Design, Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Structures
- Seismic vulnerability of as built and retrofitted bridges and buildings
- Fragility of structures in a multiple hazard environment
- Retrofit techniques and structural control of bridges and buildings
- Machine learning techniques for the seismic assessment of structures
- Inelastic analysis of structures
- Monitoring of bridges and buildings
- Software development for the design and assessment of structures
Positions Held & Professional Expertise
- Research Associate ITSAK (2019-today)
- Postdoctoral Researcher AUTh (2017-today)
- Doctoral Researcher and Research Associate (AUTh, NTUA, HKUST, etc) (2007-today)
- Assistant Proffessor (full time on an one-year contract) at the International Hellenic University, 2019-today, ΤΕΙ of Central Macedonia 2018-2019, ΤΕΙ of Thessaly & TEI of Thessaloniki 2017-2018 – Supervision of undergraduate research dissertations.
- Affiliate scientific Staff in two MSc Programs at AUTh and International Hellenic University – Supervision of postgraduate research dissertations.
- Senior Structural Engineer / Consultant at Penelis Consulting Engineers SA (2012-2019)
- Structural Engineer at A. Mavrakis-Structural Engineers (2007-2009)
- Freelancer chartered civil engineer, Structural Engineer / External consultant for design offices (2007-today)
Member in Scientific Organization
- Board Member of Hellenic Society of Earthquake Engineering (ETAM)
- Board Member of Scientific Community of Concrete Research (EPES)
- Association of Civil Engineers of Greece (SPME)
- Technical Champer of Greece (TEE)
Scientific Achievements
- Scientific Publications: more than 35 (International Journals, Conferences, Book Chapters)
- Invited Speaker (Universities in Greece and England): 2
- Research Projects: 10
- Reviewer in international journals and conferences: 11
- Editorial Board Member: Frontiers in Built Environment-Earthquake Engineering
Selected (10) Publications in Refereed International Journals and Conferences
- Sotiria P. Stefanidou and Andreas J. Kappos “Bridge Specific Fragility Analysis: When is it really necessary?”, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 17(4), 2019, 2245-2280.
- Sotiria P. Stefanidou, Anastasios G. Sextos, Anastasios N. Kotsoglou, Andreas J. Kappos and Nikolaos Lesgidis, “Soil-structure interaction effects in analysis of seismic fragility of bridges using an intensity-based ground motion selection procedure”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 151, 2017, 366-380.
- Sotiria P. Stefanidou and Andreas J. Kappos, “Methodology for the development of bridge-specific fragility curves”, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Vol. 46, 2017, 73-93.
- Vassilis K. Papanikolaou, Sotiria P. Stefanidou, Andreas J. Kappos, “The effect of Preloading on the Strength of Jacketed R/C Columns” Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 38, 2013, 54-63.
- Andreas J. Kappos, Eleftheria D. Goutzika, Sotiria P. Stefanidou, Anastasios G. Sextos «Problems in Pushover Analysis of Bridges Sensitive to Torsion», Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0053-6_5, Vol. 21, 2011, 99-122.
- Andreas J. Kappos, and Sotiria Stefanidou, “A deformation-based seismic design method for 3D R/C irregular buildings using inelastic dynamic analysis” Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol.8(4), 2010, 875-895.
- Paraskevopoulos E, Stefanidou S, Natsiavas S. “A novel approach for the analysis of a coupled train-railway bridge system: Basic Principles and Methodology”. 7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conf on Computational Methods, COMPDYN 2019, 24-26 June 2019, Crete, Greece
- Penelis, Gr.G., Paraskevopoulos, E.A. Stefanidou S.P., Paschalidis, K. “Structural Verification of the new PPC Boiler house in Ptolemaida V”, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 18-21 June 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Goutzika E.D., Stefanidou S.P., Papanikolaou V.K., “The Effect of Deck Prestress Actions on the Seismic Performance of R/C Bridges”, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 18-21 June 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Stefanidou S.P., Kappos A.J., “Efficiency of Different Retrofit Measures in Reducing Seismic Fragility Analysis of Bridges”, 16th European Bridge Conference, 23rd-25th June 2015, Edinburgh, U.K.