Dr Elia A. Tantele is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics. She undertook her PhD studies as well as her Post-Doctoral Research in the area of optimisation of preventative maintenance strategies on reinforced concrete structures using genetic algorithm and bayesian updating, from the University of Surrey, Department of Civil Engineering (UK). Her PhD was sponsored by Highway Agency and Transport Research Laboratory (UK). She obtained a First Class BEng (Honours) Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK. She also obtained a First class HND Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Higher Technical Institute. Dr Tantele worked as a bridge engineer in the consulting firm PB (Parsons Brinckerhoff, UK) where she was specialised in the design, assessment, inspection and maintenance of various types of bridges.

She is a member of the National Sub-Committee of Eurocode 2, CYS/TC18/SC2, mirror committee of TC250/SC2 of the European Standardization Body (CEN), National  Member of Delegation of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) and member of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK).

She has been responsible for the establishment and operation of the research group “infrastructure2”. The infrastructure2research group comprises the following areas of international research strength:

• Optimum maintenance strategies for RC bridges,
• Structural reliability and risk assessment,
• Proactive health monitoring and integration with reliability-based maintenance optimization,
• Life-cycle cost optimisation for maintenance of deteriorating infrastructure,
• Monitoring based maintenance,
• Structural health monitoring,
• Corrosion of steel in concrete structures
• Performance, durability and reliability of structural members,
•  Sustainability issues for structures.