Assistant Professor
Aristotelis E. Charalampakis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of West Attica (2024). He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1999), with postgraduate studies in Civil Engineering at Imperial College London (2000, MSc/DIC with distinction) and is a recipient of the Ronald Stewart Jenkins Memorial Prize from Imperial College “for excellence in structural mechanics” (2000). In 2004-2009 he completed his PhD thesis at the School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, entitled “Inelastic dynamic analysis of structures using Bouc–Wen hysteretic models”. Since 2010 he has been teaching in public and private institutions in Greece and abroad.
His research interests include, among others, dynamic analysis and seismic design of structures, hysteretic simulations (response, energy, system identification), optimization, as well as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in engineering applications.
He is author or co-author of more than 40 scientific publications (26 articles in international journals) and reviewer in more than 20 international journals. His authorial work includes 4 books, the latest of which is the textbook “Dynamics of rigid bodies” (2023). He has participated in 3 funded research projects. His research effort has attracted more than 1000 citations in Google Scholar and 700 citations in Scopus. He is a member of the editorial board of the international journals Frontiers in Built Environment: Earthquake Engineering and Frontiers in Built Environment: Computational Methods in Structural Engineering. He holds, as single inventor, a patent related to seismic isolation of structures from the Greek Industrial Property Organization.
Finally, he is a member of the following professional and scientific associations: Greek Technical Chamber, the Association of Greek Civil Engineers, the Hellenic Society for Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (HSTAM), the Hellenic Association for Earthquake Engineering (HAEE).