Dr. Panayiotis Roussis is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Prior to his current position, he held an appointment as a post-doctoral research associate (2004-2005) at the University at Buffalo and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) in the United States. He received a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1996 and an MSc from Rice University, Texas in 1999. He earned a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2004 for a dissertation on a novel uplift-restraining seismic isolation system. His research interests and contributions are in the field of earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, with a focus on the development and implementation of seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems, performance-based design, earthquake-simulator dynamic testing, and development of nonlinear dynamic analysis software. At the University of Cyprus, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of structural engineering with a focus on Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. Dr. Roussis is the author of a number of scientific publications and reviewer for major scientific journals in the field (ASCE, Springer, Elsevier etc.). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Anti-Seismic Systems International Society (ASSISi).