Dr. Michael F. Petrou has been a Professor/Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus since 2004. Prior to this appointment, he worked as an Associate/Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, U.S.A. and as an Associate Professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1987 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A. in 1991 and 1993 respectively. He has been the author/co-author of 86 research publications, including 38 refereed journal publications. He received more than €3.8 millions in research funding for a total of 30 projects. Funding sources include private, state, and federal agencies mainly from the U.S.A. and Europe such as the National Science Foundation, South Carolina Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, REA Construction Inc., Shaw Components Inc., Cox Wood Inc., Westinghouse Savannah River Company, University of Cyprus, and Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. He received several awards including the A.S.E.E. Southeastern Section Outstanding Teaching Award, 2001 and the James M. Robins Excellence in Teaching Award, Chi Epsilon Southern District, 1999. He has been a member of several technical committees of the Prestressed Concrete Institute, American Concrete Institute, and Transportation Research Board.

•Civil Engineering Materials
•Experimental Methods
•Self-compacting Concrete
•High Performance Concrete
•Laboratory and Field Testing of Structures

1. M.F. Petrou and P.C. Perdikaris, "Punching Shear Failure in Concrete Decks as a Snap-Through Instability", ASCE Structural Journal, Vol. 122, No. 9, September, 1996, pp. 998-1005.
2. M.F. Petrou, K.A. Harries, F. Gadala-Maria, and V. G. Kolli, “A Unique Experimental Method for Monitoring Aggregate Settlement in Concrete”, Cement and Concrete Research, V. 30, 2000, pp. 809-816.
3. C.G. Papakonstantinou, M.F. Petrou, and K.A. Harries, “Fatigue Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with GFRP Sheets”, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction Vol. 5, No.4, Nov. 2001, pp246-253.
4. B. Wan, M.F. Petrou, K.A. Harries, and A.A. Hussein, “Top Bar Effects in Prestressed Concrete Piles”, ACI Structural Journal, V. 99, No.2, March-April, 2002, pp 208-214.
5. B. Wan, M.A. Sutton, M.F. Petrou, K.A. Kent, and B. Yang, “Investigation of Bond between FRP Concrete Undergoing Global Mixed Mode I/II Loading” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Vol. 130 (12), Dec. 2004, pp.1467-1475.
6. B. Quattlebaum, K.A. Harries, and M.F. Petrou, “Comparison of Three Flexural Retrofit Systems under Monotonic and Fatigue Loads”, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Vol. 10, No.6, Nov. 2005, pp. 731-740.
7. M.F. Petrou, D. Parler, K.A. Harries, and D.C. Rizos, “Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks Using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Materials”, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering , Vol. 13, No.5, Sept. 2008, pp. 455-467.