Research is one of the priorities of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. This is entirely in line with the University’s status as a research institution. The research activity of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering covers all the traditional disciplines of Civil and Environmental Engineering:
- Structural and earthquake engineering
- Building materials
- Construction management
- Geotechnical engineering
- Transportation systems
- Computer-aided civil engineering
- Hydraulics and fluid mechanics
- Waste management
- Water resources management
- Environmental pollution
- Environmental biotechnology
Furthermore, the Department strives to integrate aspects of sustainability in the built environment, environmental health, infrastructure management, construction law and energy efficiency in its academic programs and research directions.
To date, the Department has secured funding of over €10 million, through competitive research programmes from national and international funding organizations, such as the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and the European Commission, and has published a large number of articles in reputable scientific journals. The Academic Staff of the Department have published their research findings in highly-regarded international journals and scientific books and they are consultants in public and private organizations.
Areas of Specialisation of Academic Staff
Name | Rank | PhD (Year) | Area of specialization |
Despo Fatta-Kassinos | Professor | NTUA (1999) | Water and Wastewater Engineering |
Ioannis Ioannou | Professor | UMIST (2002) | Building Materials |
Marina Neophytou | Professor | University of Cambridge (2002) | Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Climate Change |
Michael Petrou | Professor | Case Western Reserve University (1993) | Building Materials |
Panos Papanastasiou | Professor | University of Minnesota (1990) | Applied and Computational Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment |
Symeon Christodoulou | Professor | Columbia University (1998) | Construction Engineering and Management |
Dimitrios Loukidis | Associate Professor | Purdue University (2006) | Geotechnical Engineering |
Dimos Charmpis | Associate. Professor | NTUA (2003) | Structural and Infrastructure Engineering |
Petros Komodromos | Associate Professor | MIT (2001) | Structural, Earthquake & Computer-Aided Engineering |
Loukas Dimitriou | Associate Professor | NTUA (2010) | Transportation Engineering |
Panayiotis Roussis | Assistant Professor | University at Buffalo (2004) | Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering |
Argyro Tsipa | Assistant Professor | Imperial College London (2016) | Environmental Biotechnology |
Dimitris Stagonas | Lecturer | University of Southampton, UK (2010) | Coastal and Offshore Engineering |
Marios Mavros | Lecturer | UC San Diego (2015) | Earthquake Engineering, Reinforced Concrete, Finite Elements |
Nicolas Hadjipantelis | Lecturer | Imperial College London (2019) | Steel Structures |
Ioannis Balafas | Special Teaching Staff | University of Cambridge (2003) | Design of Concrete Structures |