Dr. Alexandros Nordas
Dr. Alexandros Nordas
Lecturer at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
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Research area
- Advanced Nonlinear Finite Element Modeling
- Computational Mechanics
- Underground Construction - Tunneling
- Mechanised TBM Tunnelling
- Radioactive Waste Disposal
- Life-cycle hazard assessment
- Time-dependent ground processes
- Constitutive Modelling
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Dr. Alexandros N. Nordas, PhD (DIC), MSc (DIC), Dipl.Ing, is currently a Senior Scientific Associate and Lecturer in the Chair of Underground Construction at ETH Zurich. He is predominantly involved as expert technical consultant in industrial underground infrastructure projects, the principal being the planned repository for geological disposal of radioactive waste in Switzerland overseen by Nagra. His research draws motivation from the consulting activities and focuses on life-cycle computational simulation and hazard assessment of underground systems, time-dependent ground processes, large deformation problems and instability phenomena in rocks, constitutive modelling, and the development of novel design aids for industrial practice. His research interests extend also beyond the field of underground construction, to the areas of computational structural mechanics, optimisation, and artificial intelligence. Alexandros holds a 5-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2013; Honours, graduated 2nd from School of Civil Engineering), a M.Sc. in Advanced Structural/Earthquake Engineering from Imperial College London (2014; Distinction, top of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), and a Ph.D. in Computational Structural Mechanics from Imperial College London, too (2019). He has authored and co-authored numerous expert technical consulting reports and scientific publications in international, peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Throughout the years, Alexandros has received several honours and awards in recognition of his academic and teaching excellence, including the Telford Premium Prize by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Letitia Chitty Centenary Memorial Prize and the Patrick J Dowling Prize in Advanced Structural Engineering by Imperial College London, a global fellowship between Imperial College London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and various awards for teaching.