About the Author
George Kouretzis obtained a Master in Civil Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, followed by a MSc and a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 2005. In the following years, he continued his engagement with the School of Civil Engineering, NTUA first as a post-doctoral researcher and later as a (part-time) lecturer. After a 4-year period where he was primarily engaged with engineering consulting activities, George moved to Australia to join the University of Newcastle in 2012, where he currently holds an Associate Professor position in the School of Engineering.
His research interests lie in the fields of pipeline engineering, soil-foundation-structure interaction, computational geomechanics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He has published over 100 refereed journal papers, peer-reviewed conference papers and book chapters on the analysis of buried pipelines affected by geohazards, the analysis of shallow and deep foundations under static and dynamics loads, the simulation of large deformation problems in geomechanics etc. In parallel he has served as associate editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal (2015-2021), currently sits on the editorial board of Computers and Geotechnics and of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, and has served as a guest editor of special issues published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Computers and Geotechnics etc.
Parallel to his academic activities, he has been involved since 2000 as an expert engineering consultant in a series of major energy and transportation infrastructure projects, including high- and medium-pressure natural gas and crude oil pipeline networks, bridges and motorway tunnels in areas of high seismicity, critical runway embankments etc.
Finally, George is the recipient of several awards for research and teaching excellence from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics IACMAG, the Institution of Civil Engineers ICE, UK, the Australian Association of Computational Mechanics ACCM etc.
More information: www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/georgios-kouretzis
Published works: www.researchgate.net/profile/George-Kouretzis
Email: georgios.kouretzis@newcastle.edu.au or gkouretz@gmail.com
