Dr Chryssis G. Papaleontiou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He teaches undergraduate civil engineering courses in analysis and design of structural steel and prestressed concrete structures, a course in numerical modeling and computer programming for structural analysis, and recently a course in legal aspects and technical laws. He also teaches a postgraduate course in modeling, behavior and design of earthquake resistant steel structures in accordance with EN1998. He has received a BS (High Hons), MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has specialized in linear and nonlinear dynamic analyses and computer modeling and programming in time and frequency domain of building structures subjected to combined horizontal and vertical earthquake excitations and has relevant publications.

Further to his studies in the USA he has worked for several years as a full time Research Engineer for the Center for Transportation Research in Texas, USA, a US leading research Institution in highway engineering affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin, and has relevant publications related to the design, construction, maintenance and testing of highway projects. During his employment he undertook five graduate statistics courses at the University of Texas specializing in the area of statistical design of experiments and collaborated in the research projects with Purdue University mathematics Professor Virgyl Anderson who was one of the statistical designers of the AASHO Road Test, Illinois which till today serves as the basis of highway design throughout the world. Dr Papaleontiou has conducted extensive research in the area of skid resistance and road materials and was the basic contributor of the statistical design of the experiment which at the time was the most comprehensive research undertaken in the US in the area of skid resistance. He also worked for five years as a Structural Engineering Consultant and Project Manager for J-Q Consultant Engineers in Austin, Texas and was responsible for the structural design, construction administration and project management of multi-million dollar building projects in reinforced and prestressed concrete and structural steel. During his work at J-Q and as a subconsultant to Woodward-Clyde International who was the leading company in dam construction and maintenance in the USA, he specialized in three-dimensional finite element studies for the stabilization of several existing concrete dams on the Colorado River in Texas (Wirtz Dam, Tom Miller concrete hollow Dam, Buchanan Dam, etc.), work that lead to dam anchoring with post tensioning tendons. The work was recently published in the ASCE Journal in the USA. In Cyprus he was a member of the structural engineering team for the design (before the BOT contract) of the New International Larnaka and Pafos Airport Terminals, auxiliary steel buildings and the air traffic Control Towers of the two Airports, the concrete structure of the New Library and Resource Center “Stelios Ioannou” of the University of Cyprus, the Leventis Gallery Building Tower in Nicosia and several other building projects in Cyprus. He worked for a number of years as a Structural Engineering Consultant for the Internal Audit Service of the Government Cyprus for the inspection of major building and civil works projects co-financed by the European Union and the Cyprus Government.

His research interests are in dynamic analysis, behavior and modeling of structures subjected to horizontal and vertical earthquake motions, the influence of high frequencies on earthquake response, the seismic response, applicability and economics of low energy dissipation building structures, and practical design and building modeling aspects such as the modal spectral design method and the application of new construction techniques in the building industry in Cyprus using post tensioning and structural steelwork.