Constantine Memos is Professor Emeritus of Maritime Hydraulics and Port Engineering with the
School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.
He holds an MEng degree in Civil Engineering (NTUA, 1969), a Mathematics Diploma (University of Patras, 1972),
a DIC and a PhD in Maritime Hydraulics
(Imperial College, 1977). At the academic level he has been teaching design of port
structures, maritime hydraulics, and port planning for nearly 45 years in the School
of Civil Engineering of the NTUA. Courses taught include Port systems, Fluid
mechanics, Hydraulics, Maritime hydraulics & harbour structures, Unsteady flows,
Free-surface flows, Topics of port engineering; also at postgraduate level: Design
of sea outfalls, Maritime hydrodynamics, Maritime structures, Integrated coastal
zone management, Computational methods in coastal zone. He has published
more than 200 papers, books, or book chapters on the above subjects in
international scientific journals, conferences, and the scientific or technological
community at large. He has been elected or appointed to several administrative
positions within NTUA including Head of the Department of Water Resources and
Environmental Engineering (1998-99, 2007-08), Head of the undergraduate studies
Committee of the School, member of the Senate and of its Committee on
undergraduate studies, member of the Rector's Council. Outside the academia Dr
Memos has been involved to date as consultant, project director or design engineer
in a variety of port, coastal, and hydraulic engineering projects since 1980. He is an
ASCE Fellow and a COPRI member, where he served in several committees; a
member of PIANC, engaged as head or member in working groups; member of
IAHR, where he led the Committee on Maritime and Coastal Hydraulics. He
reviews papers for widely recognised international journals, conferences, and for
competitive research contract awards. Dr Memos received an Unwin Prize from
Imperial College, London; an Empirikion Prize for scientific achievements in
technological sciences, Athens; and a David Hislop Award from the Institution of
Civil Engineers, London. He has been academic head to a postgraduate
programme in Environmental Design of Infrastructure of the Greek Open University
for 7 years, and tutor for 5 years in Coastal Erosion Management in the
International Postgraduate Programme in Water Resources and Environment
Management "E-ducate!". Professor Memos has guided research as supervisor or
member of advisory committees for more than 10 PhD NTUA students; he also
supervised about 40 MSc and 70 MEng final year theses. He has been founder and
President of the ASCE Hellenic Group and then Section, as well as founder and
Head of the NGO "Engineers of the Earth" since 2008. Memos was appointed
board member of the Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation
Agency of Greece (2010-2014) and served as Acting President of the said Agency
during 2012. Dr Memos is past International Director, member of the Board of
Direction (2014-16) and of the Executive Committee of the ASCE (2015-16).
Currently he is engaged in port engineering consultancy; supervises PhD students;
contributes, as national representative, in the preparation of a Eurocode for wave
and current actions on coastal structures, and reviews Hellenic Technical
Specifications on the subject of port structures.
Contact
Constantine D. Memos
Laboratory of Harbour Works
School of Civil Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
5, Heroon Polytechneiou
157 80 Zografos
Athens, Greece
e-mail: cmemos@mail.ntua.gr
