Visiting professors
Prof. Hisakazu Sakai
Sabbatical visit: July - December 2019
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Hisakazu Sakai has been a Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hosei University, Japan since 2013. He received the Diploma (1986) and the Doctoral (1998) degrees from the Kyoto University. He worked at the Wakachiku Construction Co. (1986-2002) and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (2002-2006), and taught at the Ritsumeikan University (2006-2007) and the Hiroshima Institute of Technology (2007-2012). His primary research interest focuses on the earthquake disaster mitigation, especially, seismic and recoverability assessments of roads, water pipelines, slopes and embankments etc. by using large deformation analyses and probability approaches. At present (2019), he serves as vice-chairman of the Earthquake Engineering Committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), chairman of the Earthquake Resistance Standards Committee, JSCE, and member of Editorial Boards of the World list, IAEE and the Journal of Earthquake Engi neering, JSCE.
Prof. Shideh Dashti
Sabbatical visit: January - August 2019
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Shideh Dashti is an Associate Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). She obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked briefly with ARUP (New York City) and Bechtel (San Francisco) Geotechnical groups on several engineering projects in the US and around the world involving the design of foundation systems, slopes, and underground structures and tunnels. Her research team at CU studies: the interactions and interdependencies among different infrastructure systems during earthquakes and other types of disasters; the seismic performance of underground structures; and consequences and mitigation of the liquefaction hazard facing structures in isolation and in dense urban settings.
Prof. Panagiotis Dakoulas
Sabbatical visit: March - May 2018
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Panagiotis Dakoulas is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his diploma at NTUA (1980) and his PhD at RPI, N.Y. (1985). He taught at Rice University, Houston, Tx, till 2001. His research is in the area of soil dynamics, and focuses on the seismic behavior of earth dams, experimental soil behavior, constitutive modeling of soils, modeling of liquefiable soils, seismic behavior of waterfront structures, seismic behavior of underground pipelines and numerical methods in geomechanics. He served as chair of the Earthquake Engineering & Soil Dynamics Committee of ASCE from 1992 to 2000 and as member of the Editorial Board of the J. of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. He received the Prakash Award in 1995 and Hsieh Award of ICE in 2009. He has served as consultant on projects related to earth dams, bridges, gas pipeline systems, offshore foundations, etc.