Curriculum Vitae - Charis Gantes

Between 1985 and 1987 he served his obligatory military service as a 2nd Lieutenant in The Greek Air Force.

His research was on the behavior, analysis and design of deployable structures, supervised by Prof. Jerry Connor.
He received the Master of Science in 1988 and the Ph.D. in 1991.
His doctoral thesis was entitled "A design methodology for deployable structures".

After returning to Greece in 1991 he initially worked on the design and execution of technical projects, mostly private buildings, and as external collaborator of Attiko Metro S.A., the company responsible for the design and construction of the Athens Metro.

Between 1992 and 1995 he taught "Structural analysis" in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Greek Air Force Academy.

Since 1994 he is a faculty member in the Institute of Steel Structures, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, initially as Lecturer (1994-2000), then as Assistant Professor (2000-2004), Tenured Assistant Professor (2004-2007), Associate Professor (2007-2012), and as Full Professor since 2012. Since 2020 he serves as Director of the Institute of Steel Structures.

He teaches and coordinates the compulsory core course "Steel structures I" in the 6th semester of studies, the compulsory course of the structural specialization "Steel structures IΙ" in the 7th semester of studies, and the elective course of the structural specialization "Nonlinear behavior of steel structures" in the 9th semester of studies. He also teaches and coordinates the graduate courses "Design of cable and membrane structures" and "Steel structures for marine applications".
He has supervised 10 completed doctoral theses and is currently supervising 8 on-going ones. He has also supervised 71 graduate theses and 195 diploma theses.
His research activities cover aspects of behavior, analysis and design of structures under extreme loads, including seismic, wind and blast, causing them to respond in nonlinear manner, with emphasis on steel structures. Objective of his research is to evaluate the ultimate strength of members, connections and structures, combining experimental, numerical and analytical methods, mostly nonlinear finite element analyses. He is particularly interested in steel structures for energy and other industrial applications, wind turbine towers, buried pipelines, long-span steel structures, such as roofs for athletic facilities, steel structures for marine applications, deployable structures, tension structures and guyed towers.
He is author of one book on deployable structures (in English), one book on nonlinear behavior of steel structures (in Greek), lecture notes for a graduate course on cable structures, and he is co-author of one book on applications of special issues in structural steel design (in Greek). He has co-edited two collective volumes and participated as co-author in two more. He has also co-authored 10 book chapters, 117 papers in international journals, 192 papers in proceedings of conferences and several technical reports.
His research work has significant international recognition. From the results of search engine Scopus he has more than 2250 citations of his publications and a value of h-index equal to 27. From Web of Science he has more than 1600 citations and h-index equal to 23, while from Google Scholar more than 4000 citations and h-index equal to 35.
He has participated in and coordinated several funded research projects.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Built Environment - Earthquake Engineering, Review Editor of Frontiers in Built Environment - Structural Sensing and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Space Structures. He is Correspondemt for Greece of Structural Engineering International (SEI).
He is member of the Greek mirror Committee of CEN/TC250, ELOT/TE67 Committee on "Eurocodes", Coordinator of the Greek mirror Group of CEN/TC250/SC3, ELOT TE67/OE3 "Eurocode 3" and representative of Greece in Committee CEN/TC250/SC3 for Eurocode 3 of the European Committee for Standardization, CEN.
He is member of CEN Project Teams SC3/T1 and SC3/T11 for parts EN1993-1-1 (General rules and rules for buildings) and EN1993-3 (Masts, towers and chimneys) of Eurocode 3 in the framework of the development of the second generation of Eurocodes.
He is member of several Greek and international scientific and professional organizations, reviewer in more than 50 international journals and several conferences and research organizations, and co-organizer or member of the scientific committees in Greek and international conferences.
He has delivered invited lectures in universities in Greece, Europe, Japan, the US and Canada and he has taught in many continuing educations seminars in many cities of Greece and Cyprus.
His research work has been recognized by "Fulbright Foundation", the "British Royal Society" and the "Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo".
He is a "Fulbright Alumni Outreach Ambassador", member of the selection committee of the "Tsuboi awards" and member of the selection committee of the "Isler Prize".

In parallel, he has participated as a consultant in the structural design of many buildings and other technical projects, mostly made of steel but also of other structural materials, in Greece and abroad. Projects in which he has participated include long-span steel roofs, power plants and other industrial facilities, wind turbine towers, transmission and guyed towers, buried pipelines transporting oil and natural gas, marine facilities, underground structures including subway tunnels and stations, road infrastructure projects, temporary supports of deep excavations and a wide range of buildings.