Costas Papadimitriou is Professor of Structural Dynamics in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of Thessaly and Director of the System Dynamics Laboratory. He was born in Nafpaktos (Lepanto), Greece, in 1961. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Patras (Greece) in 1984 and pursued graduate studies in the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was awarded the degrees of M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1985 and 1990, respectively.

From 1991 to 1999 he worked as Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of Texas A&M University (1991-1994), Visiting Assistant Professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science of Caltech (1994-1995), Visiting Associate in the Civil Engineering Department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995-1996), Instructor and Researcher in Caltech and Researcher in Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996-1998), Senior Research Engineer in Caltech (1998-1999), and Instructor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of the University of Thessaly (1999). Since January 2000 he has been with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering of University of Thessaly.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of dynamics and vibrations of mechanical systems. His research interests include structural dynamics, mechanical vibrations, probabilistic dynamics, uncertainty analysis, structural reliability, system identification, structural health monitoring, optimal design of mechanical and structural systems and experimental dynamics. 

He is the associate editor of the International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS http://www.inderscience.com). He is also a member of the Dynamics Committee, Probabilistic Methods Committee and Structural Health Monitoring Task Group Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE. He has also served as referee for several journals, including the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, AIAA, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE). He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

For details on research and teaching activities and recent publications visit the website of the System Dynamics Laboratory (SDL).

• Gaitanaros, S., Karaiskos, G., Papadimitriou, C. and Aravas, N. (2010). "A Bayesian Methodology for Crack Identification in Structures using Strain Measurements." International Journal of Reliability and Safety, 5 (1), in press. Download
• Papadimitriou, C. and Au, S.K. (2010). "Advances in Reliability Methods and Probabilistic System Identification Techniques." International Journal of Reliability and Safety, in press.
• Karaiskos, G., Papanicolaou, P. and Papadimitriou, C. (2010). "Active Vibration Control of Structures using Jet Pulses." 14th ECEE, European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, August 30 - September 3 2010, Ohrid, FYROM, in progress.
• Papadimitriou, C., Fritzen, C.-P., Kraemer, P. and Ntotsios, E. (2010). "Fatigue Predictions in Entire Body of Metallic Structures from a Limited Number of Vibration Measurements using Kalman Filtering." Structural Control and Health Monitoring, accepted for publication March 2010. Download
• Ntotsios, E., Papadimitriou, C., Panetsos, P., Karaiskos, G., Perros, K. and Perdikaris, P. (2009). "Bridge health monitoring system based on vibration measurements." Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 7:469-483. Download
• Ntotsios, E., Karakostas, C., Lekidis, V., Panetsos, P., Nikolaou, I., Papadimitriou, C. and Salonikos, T. (2009). "Structural identification of Egnatia Odos bridges based on ambient and earthquake induced vibrations." Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 7:485-501. Download
• Papadimitriou, C., Fritzen, C.P., Kraemer, P. and Ntotsios, E. (2009). "Fatigue lifetime estimation in structures using ambient vibration measurements." COMPDYN 2009, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, M. Papadrakakis, N.D. Lagaros, M. Fragiadakis (eds.), Rhodes, Greece, 22-24 June 2009. Download