Biographical Sketch




MAILING ADDRESS

Room 6131 Etcheverry Hall, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1740, USA

Telephone number: 1-510-642-3358

E-mail address: panos@me.berkeley.edu

URL: www.me.berkeley.edu/~panos


ACADEMIC RANK/TITLE

Professor of Mechanical Engineering


RELATED EXPERIENCE

7/1/04 - present : Professor, University of California, Berkeley

7/1/98 - 6/30/04 : Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley

7/1/92 - 6/30/98 : Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1/1/92 - 6/30/92 : Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley

8/1/91 - 12/31/91 : University Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley

1/1/88 - 8/31/91 : Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

8/1/87 - 5/31/90 : Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley


UNIVERSITY DEGREES

Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, December 1991

M.S. Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, May 1987

Dipl. Civil Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 1986


HONORS AND AWARDS

Gordon Bell Award, Special Category, 2004.

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1999

Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award, 1995

NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993

W. and H. Popert Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1989-1990

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, U.C. Berkeley, 1989


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Allocation Committee of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), 1997-2001.

Technical consultant for Sandia National Laboratories, 1998-2000.

Recording Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 1997-98.

Recording Secretary of the General Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 1996-97.

Manuscript reviewer for the following journals: AIAA Journal, ASME Journal of Tribology, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering , Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering , Computers & Structures, International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering , International Journal of Plasticity , International Journal of Solids and Structures , Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik.

NSF panel review participant.

Book reviewer for PWS-Kent, Cambridge University Press and John Wiley.


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

ASME, IACM, SIAM.