Teaching includes Stochastic Finite Element Methods, Structural Reliability Methods, Estimation of Rare Events and Failure Probabilities, Elements of Machine Learning, Prognostics and Health Management. Key publications are within the research areas mentioned above.
Research Experience
Since 2019: Akademischer Rat at the Engineering Risk Analysis Group, TU München (tenured since 2021); 2011-2019: Research Associate and Lecturer at the Engineering Risk Analysis Group, TU München; 2010: Visiting Researcher, University of California, Berkeley.
Education
2007-2012: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the Chair of Computation in Engineering, TU München (Funded by SOFiSTiK AG); 2005-2007: M.Sc. (Hons.) in Computational Mechanics, TU München; 1999-2005: Diploma in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
Background
Research interests: Uncertainty quantification of numerical models of engineering systems, reliability assessment and reliability-based optimization of engineering systems, reliability analysis of network systems, Bayesian updating of engineering models with data, uncertainty-based sensitivity analysis, probabilistic modeling and machine learning, random field models of spatially variable properties, uncertainty analysis and reliability assessment of high-dimensional systems, geotechnical reliability assessment.