Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos – Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Athanasopoulos-Zekkos’s research focus and expertise is on assessing and mitigating the impact of multi-hazard stressors on geotechnical engineering infrastructure, with particular emphasis on challenges due to age-related deterioration, population growth and densification, natural and human-made hazards, and new demands from climate change.
Particular areas of research include
(1) the response of flood protection systems such as levees that are old and rapidly deteriorating as well as threatened by increasing demands due to increasing water levels, (2) the performance of critical systems such as ports during earthquakes, (3) the effects of man-induced vibrations from pile driving in dense urban environments and near critical infrastructure such as bridges and retaining walls, and (4) the use of new materials, advanced sensing and next-generation laboratory and field testing to inform us on efficient and sustainable mitigation of aging systems.
School: Engineering
Contact Information: adda.zekkos@berkeley.edu
Point Person: Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos
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