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He teaches and coordinates the undergraduate courses "Steel structures I", "Steel structures II" and "Nonlinear behavior of steel structures", and the graduate courses "Design of cable and membrane structures" and "Steel structures for marine applications". He supervises doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students working in the above fields.
His research activities cover aspects of behavior, analysis and design of structures under extreme loading 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 applications, such as wind turbine towers and buried pipelines, as well as in the structural condition assessment of old steel structures.
He is author of a book on deployable structures, a book on nonlinear behavior of steel structures, class notes for a graduate course on cable structures, and he has co-authored a book on applications of special issues in structural steel design. He edited a collective volume and parrticipated in two more, and he is co-author of approximately 10 book chapters, more than 110 technical papers published in international journals, and 190 technical papers published in proceedings of international conferences. His research work has significant international recognition, as demonstrated by the number of citations and the value of h-index.
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, Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Space Structures and Correspondent for Greece of Structural Engineering International (SEI).
He contributes to improving the know-how of Greek structural engineers in issues related to the design of steel structures by participating in working groups and project teams developing pertinent structural design codes and by teaching in continuing education seminars. 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 was 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 participates as a consultant in the structural design of buildings and other technical projects, mostly made of steel, but also of other structural materials, in Greece and abroad, including long-span steel roofs, power plant 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.

"My major objective in this book is to define the new art form of structural engineering and to show that numerous engineering artists are creating such works in the contemporary world. The disciplines of structural art are efficiency and economy, and its freedom lies in the potential it offers the individual designer for the expression of a personal style motivated by the conscious aesthetic search for engineering elegance".