Ioannis Stefanou – Principal Investigator
Ioannis Stefanou is currently Professor at École Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France. He studied at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and did his thesis at the Laboratory of Geomaterials of the School of Applied Mathematics and Physics Sciences of the same institution. He is the author of 40 articles in major multi-disciplinary scientific journals and leading peer-reviewed international journals in the fields of mechanics, geomechanics and geo-physics. He develops novel theoretical, numerical and experimental tools focusing on redefining and going beyond “failure” in design. His main research topics are the mechanics of (geo-)materials, geomechanics, earthquake control, masonry structures and fast dynamics.
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Panagiotis Kotronis
Panagiotis Kotronis is full Professor at École Centrale de Nantes (ECN, France) since 2009. He studied at the School of Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) did his master and PhD at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France). He is the author of 50 articles in leading peer-reviewed international journals in the fields of geomechanics and earthquake engineering. His main research topics are: modeling of structures submitted to earthquakes using advanced and simplified numerical approaches, higher order media, multifiber beam elements, macroelements for Soil Structure Interactions. He received the AFPS (Association Française de Génie Parasismique) award in 2015.
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Filippo Masi
Filippo Masi is currently post-doc at GeM Laboratory (École Centrale de Nantes). He studied at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Florence and did his thesis at Centrale Nantes in collaboration with the University of Versailles and St-Quentin and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.He develops novel theoretical and numerical tools focusing on material modeling with Thermodynamics-based Artificial Neural Networks.
His main research topics are: data-driven and machine learning approaches for the constitutive modeling of materials, the structural and fast-dynamic behavior of masonry structures, and geomechanics. He received the PhD thesis award by the French Computational Structural Mechanics Association (CSMA) and of the prize for the best PhD thesis bringing technological and conceptual breakthroughs in the industry by Centrale Innovation, in 2021.
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Ahmad Morsel
Ahmad Morsel is doing his PhD in the field of fast-dynamics, experimental testing, and masonry structures at GeM Laboratory, École Centrale de Nantes (ECN). He graduated from the Université Grenoble Alpes, holding a Master’s Degree in Geomechanics, Civil Engineering and Risks, and formerly from the Islamic University of Lebanon, holding a Diploma in Civil Engineering. During his Master’s studies he focused on experimental testing and numerical analysis of masonry structures at reduced scale at GEOMAS Laboratory. His current research interests sprawl in the experimental study of masonry structures under blast loading.
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