Prof. Ioannis Anastasopoulos

Ioannis Anastasopoulos has been Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2016. Since 2023, he is also Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. He specializes in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil–structure interaction, combining numerical with experimental methods. His academic degrees include a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), an MSc from Purdue University, and a Civil Engineering Diploma from NTUA. His research interests include resilient seismic design and mitigation techniques, sustainable retrofit of bridge foundations, faulting and its effects on structures, offshore geotechnics, tsunamis and their effects on coastal infrastructure, scouring of bridge foundations, and soil liquefaction. He is the inaugural recipient of the ISSMGE Young Researcher Award in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, and winner of the 2012 Shamsher Prakash Research Award. He has been a consultant in major projects in Europe, US and the Middle East. His consulting work ranges from the design of pile-rafts of tall buildings, to bridge foundations, metro stations, tunnels, and quay walls, as well as special design against faulting. He is Editor-in-Chief of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and has been Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member in several Journals, including the JEE and Géotechnique. He is in the Board of Directors of IAEE, and Chair of ISSMGE TC104 on Physical Modelling.