Papadimitriou, Costas

Costas Papadimitriou received his MSc (1985) and PhD (1990) in Applied Mechanics at Caltech. In 2000 he joined the University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece, as Associate Professor of Structural Dynamics with tenure and in 2006 was promoted to Professor. Since 2001 he is the director of the System Dynamics Laboratory of UTH. In the past, he held positions of visiting professor at ETH-Zurich (2011) and K.U.Leuven (2000); research associate at Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996-1999) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995-1996); visiting Assistant professor at Caltech (1994-1995) and assistant professor at Texas A&M University (1991-1994). He also held the position of the Executive Vice-President of the European Association of Structural Dynamics (2011-2017).

Papadimitriou is the recipient of the 2014 European Association of Structural Dynamics Senior Award in Computational Structural Dynamics. He served as associate/Academic editor for journals (e.g. ASCE-JEM, Structural Control & Health Monitoring-SCHM) and editorial board member of journals (e.g. SCHM, Structural Monitoring and Maintenance, Frontiers in Build Environment, Sensors). He served as chair of the “Dynamics” committee of ASCE-Engineering Mechanics Institute (2012-2014). He serves as a member of the Sectoral Scientific Council on Artificial Intelligence (2025-present) and served as an associate member of the Sectoral Scientific Council on Engineering Sciences (Oct. 2014 – 2016) of the Greek National Council of Research and Technology. He is member of the ASCE-EMI committees of Dynamics, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, and Probabilistic Methods.

His research interests include Bayesian inference for uncertainty quantification in engineering and Applied sciences; probabilistic structural dynamics; structural identification, finite element model updating, structural health monitoring; fault diagnosis; optimal experimental design; structural reliability; design optimization and decision making under uncertainty. Main application areas are civil and mechanical engineering structures. He has applied Bayesian inference methodologies to wildfire spreading and management, computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, nanotechnology, biological and epidemiological models.

He has published 145 referred journal articles, more than 200 conference proceedings articles, one book, co-edited two books, 5 conference proceedings, four book chapters, and one Encyclopedia section, and acted as Guest Editor in 5 special journal issues. His research impact measures are 12.9K citations, h-index 59, and i10-index 153 (Google Scholars). He has a strong international collaboration network (e.g. Harvard University, ETH Zurich, Tufts University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Macau, KULeuven, Santa Maria University–Chile, AGH University of Krakow). His research has been funded from national, European and international agencies, including USA-NSF, Europe-Horizon 2020, Hong Kong Research Grant Council and Greek General Secrertary of Research and Technology. He has given plenary, semi-plenary, keynote and invited lecturers in international conferences and delivered seminars in institutions worldwide. He acts as reviewer in 60 international journals. He has co-organised conferences and he has organized numerous Mini-symposia, Symposia and sessions for international conferences; he is member of numerous international scientific committees.

For details on research and teaching activities and recent publications visit the website of the System Dynamics Laboratory (SDL).