Appointed Board Member - Professor Dimitrios Zekkos

Professor Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the CEO of ARGO-E, an infrastructure data analytics firm based in California, and Board Member of Elxis Group, an engineering consulting company based in Athens, Greece. Dimitrios is also a licensed Professional Engineer in California (USA) and Greece. 

Dimitrios received his BSc/Meng degree from the University of Patras and a MSc and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He subsequently worked for a consulting company in California and was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Michigan until 2019.

Dimitrios is the Editor-in-Chief of the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories (http://geocasehistoriesjournal.org), has served as the Chair of the Innovation and Development Committee (IDC) of ISSMGE (2008-2022), and presently is a member of several Technical Committees of ISSMGE. As Chair of IDC, he was instrumental in expanding ISSMGEs activities online, establishing GeoWorld, the open access online library and the ISSMGE Virtual University.

Dimitrios research work is at the intersection of infrastructure, natural hazards and big data. His group focuses on the development and deployment of innovative coupled experimental (in the field and the laboratory) and computational approaches to characterize the response of infrastructure and geo-systems to natural hazards and environmental stressors such as climate change. He has deployed in disaster-affected areas following earthquake, hurricane, and monsoon events in Japan, New Zealand, Nepal, Greece, and USA.  His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the United States Geological Survey, the World Bank, the Michigan Department of Transportation, and other private organizations. His work has been recognized through several awards including the Middlebrooks Award, Collingwood Prize and Casagrande Award by ASCE, as well as the Shamsher Prakash Research Award and the Outstanding Innovator Award by the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He can be found at: https://dimitrioszekkos.org/