Dimos Charmpis obtained a Diploma in Civil Engineering (5-year course) from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece (1994). He also received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from NTUA and Athens University of Economics and Business (1999). He then earned a Ph.D. degree from NTUA (2003) after completing a thesis on topics in the area of Computational Mechanics. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked together with research groups at NTUA, Technical University of Munich (Germany) and University of Innsbruck (Austria) during 2003-2005. Since August 2005 he is a Lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cyprus.

The research interests of Dr. Charmpis cover various topics of Computational Mechanics and aim in the exploitation of innovative computing systems and numerical methods for the analysis and design of structures under static or dynamic/seismic loading. More specifically, his research work is related with:
• Finite element methods (Solution of large-scale structural problems, Adaptivity, Error estimation)
• Uncertainties treatment and quantification (Modelling uncertainties in material/geometric properties and in static/dynamic/seismic loading, Stochastic finite elements, Reliability analysis, Random number generation)
• Structural design optimization (Single- and multi-objective optimization, Reliability-Based Design Optimization – RBDO, Robust Design Optimization – RDO)
• Soft computing applications (using Evolutionary algorithms, Neural networks and other Metamodels)
• Solution procedures for finite element equations (Conjugate gradient method, Preconditioning techniques, Sparse matrix handling)
• High performance computing (Parallel and distributed processing, Domain decomposition methods, Mesh partitioning)

D.C. Charmpis, M. Papadrakakis, “Subdomain cluster generation for domain decomposition methods using graph partitioning optimization”, Engineering Computations: International Journal for Computer-Aided Engineering (Emerald), 20(8), pp. 932-963, 2003.

D.C. Charmpis, M. Papadrakakis, “Improving the computational efficiency in finite element analysis of shells with uncertain properties”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier), Special Issue on Computational Methods in Stochastic Mechanics and Reliability Analysis, 194(12-16), pp. 1447-1478, 2005.

D.C. Charmpis, N.D. Lagaros, M. Papadrakakis, “Multi-database exploration of large design spaces in the framework of cascade evolutionary structural sizing optimization”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier), Special issue on Recent Advances in Structural Design Optimization, 194(30-33), pp. 3315-3330, 2005.

N.D. Lagaros, D.C. Charmpis, M. Papadrakakis, “An adaptive neural network strategy for improving the computational performance of evolutionary structural optimization”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier), Special issue on Recent Advances in Structural Design Optimization, 194(30-33), pp. 3374-3393, 2005.

G.A. Markou, Z.S. Mouroutis, D.C. Charmpis, M. Papadrakakis, “The ortho-semi-torsional (OST) spring analogy method for 3D mesh moving boundary problems”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier), 196(4-6), pp. 747-765, 2007.

H.J. Pradlwarter, G.I. Schuëller, P.S. Koutsourelakis, D.C. Charmpis, “Application of line sampling simulation method to reliability benchmark problems”, Structural Safety (Elsevier), Special issue on A Benchmark Study on Reliability in High Dimensions, 29(3), pp. 208-221, 2007.

D.C. Charmpis, G.I. Schuëller, M.F. Pellissetti, “The need for linking micromechanics of materials with stochastic finite elements: a challenge for materials science”, Computational Materials Science (Elsevier), 41(1), pp. 27-37, 2007.

Personal Website: http://www.eng.ucy.ac.cy/charmpis