Marios C. Phocas received his Diplom degree in Architecture including in depth studies in building technology and structural design from the University of Stuttgart in 1995. He completed his doctorate on earthquake resistant structural building design, at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart in 1999. Dr. Phocas is currently Associate Professor and Interim Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus, since 2009 and 2006 respectively, as well as co-principal of the Archimedes Research Center for Structural and Construction Technology, since 2005. From 2004 until 2009 he served as Assistant Professor at the Program of Architecture. Prior to his appointment at the University of Cyprus he was Main Research Associate, Academic Teaching Consultant, and extraordinary Dozent at ITKE of the University of Stuttgart, from 1996 until 2004. He is the author and/or co-author, co-editor of eleven books, fourteen book chapters, twenty three refereed journal papers and forty two refereed conference proceedings papers, in the areas of integrated architectural design, structural and construction design, kinetic structures and earthquake resistant structural building design. He has received thirteen architectural awards for project designs in collaboration, in Germany and Cyprus.

- Integrated Architectural Design
- Building Technology
- Structural and Construction Design
- Kinetic Structures
- Earthquake Engineering; Structural Control and Seismic Isolation

Phocas, M.C., Kontovourkis, O., Matheou, M., Kinetic Hybrid Structure Development and Simulation. Architectural Computing, Multi-Science Co., Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 67-86, March 2012

Charalambous, N., Phocas, M.C., Research based Design: Competition Proposal for the Cyprus News Agency. The Architecture and Education Journal, LABART, Lusófona University, Portugal, No. 5, pp. 120-134, December 2011

Phocas, M.C., Sophocleous, T.L., Adaptable Dual Control Systems for Earthquake Resistance. Brebbia, C.A., Maugeri, M., (eds.), Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VIII, Section 2: Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation, WIT Press, Southampton, pp. 55-66, 2011

Phocas, M., Brebbia, C.A., Komodromos, P., (eds.), Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VII, WIT Press, Southampton, 2009

Pamboris, G., Phocas, M.C., Seismically Isolated Multi-Storey Structures over the Height. 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, COMPDYN 2009, 22.06-24.06.09, Proceedings, Rhodes, Greece, Proceedings, Rhodes, June 2009

Pocanschi, A., Phocas, M.C., Adaptable Earthquake Isolator with Progressive Nonlinear Deformability. Engineering Structures, Elsevier Science, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 2586-2592, October 2007

Pocanschi, A., Phocas, M.C., Load Bearing Glass Columns for a Coffee-house in Goeppingen. Building Engineering, Ernst & Sohn, Vol. 83, No. 10, pp. 708-714, October 2006, in German

Phocas, M.C., High-Rise Buildings. Structure and Construction. Publisher: Teubner, Wiesbaden, May 2005, in German

Pocanschi, A., Phocas, M.C., Forces in Motion. The Technologies of Earthquake Resistant Structural Building Design. Publisher: Teubner, Wiesbaden, July 2003, in German

Phocas, M.C., Pocanschi, A., Steel Frames with Bracing Mechanism and Hysteretic Dampers. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 811-825, April 2003