Dr. Manolis Chatzis

Biography

Professor Manolis Chatzis graduated from the National Technical University of Athens in 2007 with a Diploma in Civil Engineering and obtained an MSc in Structural Engineering from the same university in 2008. He completed his PhD in 2012 at Columbia University's Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Smyth, defending a thesis on ‘The Dynamics of Rigid Bodies Moving Through Deformable Media’. Following his doctorate, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, focusing on System Identification and data fusion. In 2013, he was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and is also a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College. His research interests center on Dynamic Systems with Non-Linearities, particularly in Structural Health Monitoring and Vibration Monitoring, where he investigates the properties of systems and damage detection using dynamic responses. His group aims to improve the robustness of System Identification algorithms and their applications in monitoring infrastructure such as bridges and wind turbines, and he is involved in developing real-time hybrid testing frameworks for component identification.

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