Education
  PhD Computational Mechanics Carnegie Mellon University 1995  
  Master of Science Civil Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 1990  
  Diploma Civil Engineering National Technical University of Athens 1985  
  PostDoc Computational Biomechanics Center for Orthopaedic Research 1995  
 
Academic and Professional Positions
  Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 2005 - present  
  Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 1999 - 2005  
  Engineering and Science Consultant O'Donnell Consulting Engineers, Inc. 1998 - 1999  
  Visiting Scientist School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University 1998 - 1999  
  Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 1995 - 1997  
  Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Orthopaedic Research, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh 1994 - 1995  
  Research Assistant Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 1988 - 1994  
  Special Projects Scientist Computer Center Division, Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service 1986 - 1987  
  Research Assistant Aseismic Research Lab, National Technical University of Athens 1986 - 1987  
 
Honors and Awards
 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2003
Departmental Teaching Award, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2002
The Allen Newell Gold Medal for Research Excellence, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998
Finalist, 1997 Gordon Bell Prize, with D.R. O'Hallaron, J.R. Shewchuk, J. Bielak, O. Ghattas, H. Bao, and J. Xu, as reported in IEEE Computer, pp. 86-92, 1998
NSF-CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computational Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, 1995
Finalist, Best Paper in Finite Element Analysis at the 5th Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition, 1993
Ansys, Inc. (then Swanson Analysis Systems, Inc.) Fellowship, 1989
State Scholarship for outstanding performance, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1984
State Scholarship for outstanding performance, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1983
 


Professional and Honorary Societies
American Academy of Mechanics
US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Technical Chamber of Greece
Hellenic Society of Civil Engineers
Sigma Xi

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