Dimitrios studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Diploma, 1997). He then specialized in geomechanics at Stanford University (MSc 1998) where he also received a doctorate in civil & environmental engineering (PhD 2002) with a focus on earthquake engineering. Since September 2005 he has joined the faculty of the University of Cyprus teaching design of steel structures, earthquake engineering and nonlinear structural analysis. His research interests are focused on integrating structural modeling, computational techniques, probabilistic concepts and experimental results into a coherent framework for the performance evaluation of structures under seismic loading.

Seismic performance of steel structures, capacity and reliability of structures, stochastic methods, simplified methods for seismic analysis, nonlinear static and dynamic analysis, design optimization, seismic codes – guidelines.

1. Vamvatsikos D., Cornell C.A. (2006). Direct estimation of the seismic demand and capacity of oscillators with multi-linear static pushovers through Incremental Dynamic Analysis. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 35(9): 1097–1117.
2. Vamvatsikos D., Cornell C.A. (2005). Developing efficient scalar and vector intensity measures for IDA capacity estimation by incorporating elastic spectral shape information. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 34(13): 1573–1600.
3. Vamvatsikos D., Cornell C.A. (2005). Direct estimation of the seismic demand and capacity of MDOF systems through Incremental Dynamic Analysis of an SDOF Approximation. ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 131(4): 589–599.
4. Vamvatsikos D. and Cornell C.A. (2004). Applied Incremental Dynamic Analysis. Earthquake Spectra, 20(2): 523–553.
5. Vamvatsikos D., Cornell C.A. (2002). Incremental Dynamic Analysis. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 31(3): 491–514.

Personal Website: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~divamva