ESR12

Maria Antoniou

ADT- OMEGA

Background

Maria was born in Crete, Greece in 1989. She graduated from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where she defended her thesis in the field of Soil-Structure Interaction and Earthquake Engineering. She received her Master’s degree with distinction from the University of Dundee, UK in the field of Geotechnical Engineering, with a specialization in Offshore Geotechnics. Following her MSc studies, Maria worked with Grid Engineers (Greece) in several research & technical projects with an emphasis in soil dynamics and earthquake engineering. In 2017, she started working as a graduate researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on Offshore Geotechnics, while she has also collaborated with the University of Leeds, UK on EU funded research regarding the seismic response of tunnel structures. She was actively involved in the organization of the 1^st and 2^nd International Conferences on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure held in Chania, Greece in 2016 & 2019.

Motivation

As the world strives to reduce the impact of natural hazards to critical infrastructure, Maria sees her participation in INSPIRE as a great opportunity to produce high quality applied research and gain hands-on experience on the implementation of novel concepts for the efficient protection of infrastructure against earthquakes.

Hobbies

Maria loves travelling & live concerts. Well-spent days by the sea make her happy.

Publications

Kapasakalis, K., Mantakas, A. (ESR07), Kalderon, M. (ESR15), Antoniou, M. (ESR12), and Sapountzakis, E.J. Performance Evaluation of Distributed Extended KDamper Devices for Seismic Protection of Mid-Rise Building Structures., Journal of Earthquake Engineering (2022) (under review).

Mantakas, A. (ESR07), Kapasakalis, K.A., Antoniou, M. (ESR12), Kalderon, M. (ESR15), Antoniadis, I.A., Sapountzakis, E.J., Design of a Negative Stiffness Vibration Absorber for Seismic Upgrade of Residential Buildings on Rocking Foundations, 13th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Patras, Greece, 24-27 August 2022.

Mantakas A. (ESR07), Kapasakalis K.A., Kalderon M. (ESR15), Antoniou. M (ESR11), Antoniadis I.A., Sapountzakis, E.J., 3D Numerical Investigation of an Extended KDamper Absorber for Seismic Retrofitting of Low-Rise Buildings, 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2023), Athens, Greece, 12-14 June 2023. (Paper accepted)

Kapasakalis, K.A., Mantakas, A. (ESR07), Kalderon, M. (ESR15), Antoniou, M. (ESR12), Sapountzakis, E.J., “Performance Evaluation of Negative Stiffness-Based Vibration Control Devices for Seismic Protection of Building Structures”, 9th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2023), Athens, Greece, 12-14 June 2023. (Paper accepted)

Stories

Thoughts amid the COVID-19 outbreak