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Professor Spyros A. Karamanos

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Thessaly, Greece

Research Interests:
Structural Mechanics, Stability and Buckling, Numerical Methods and Finite elements, Inelastic Analysis of Materials and Structures, Analysis of Plates and Shells, Design & Analysis of Steel Structures, Design & Analysis of Pipelines and Industrial Structures, Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering.

Education:
1993 Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
1991 Master of Science in Engineering (_ú.Sc.) in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
1989 Diploma (5-year degree) in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Highest Honors, 1st out of 350 students).

Academic & Professional Experience:
08/2009 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
05/2003 - 08/2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
05/1999 - 05/2003 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
10/1996 - 05/1999 Design Engineer, EGNATIA ODOS AE., Thessaloniki, Greece.
01/1996 - 10/1996 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Steel Structures Lab, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
01/1994 - 12/1995 Military Service (Mandatory), Naval Works Department, Hellenic Navy General Staff - duration: 23 months
09/1993 - 01/1994 Graduate Teaching Assistant in Steel Structures & Structural Analysis, Department of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA.
09/1991 - 09/1993 Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Sponsored by Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas, USA.
09/1989 - 05/1991 Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil Engineering, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Sponsored by the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC), Austin, Texas, USA.

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