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Dimitrios Zekkos is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on infrastructure resilience, informatics, and geotechnical engineering, with particular emphasis on landslides, unmanned aerial vehicles, earthquakes, and natural hazards. Zekkos employs innovative experimental approaches in both laboratory and field settings, utilizing computational methods to provide new insights that inform improved models of earth material response to static and dynamic loads. He has received several prestigious awards for his work, including the Outstanding Innovator Award from the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 2015, the ASCE Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award in 2012, and the ASCE Collingwood Prize. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, and has contributed significantly to the fields of geoenvironmental engineering and earthquake engineering.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and conducting research in the field of civil and environmental engineering.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.