Elpida Georgiou is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). In 2023 she was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Geo-Engineering research group at the Department of Geoscience and Engineering of Delft University of  Technology (TU Delft). Additionally, Elpida is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at Neapolis University Pafos. She holds a PhD in “Seismic Retrofitting of RC Frames with RC Infilling” from the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at CUT. She completed her bachelor’s  degree in civil engineering at CUT in 2011 and earned her master’s degree in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management from University College London (UCL) in 2012.

As part of her doctoral work, she studied numerically the contribution of dowels connecting the wall to the bounding frame for the seismic strengthening of RC  frames with RC infill walls through nonlinear response-history analyses. She performed numerical simulations by varying the number and arrangement of dowels connecting the wall to the bounding frame. She developed a finite element model for numerical simulations that was calibrated using the experimental results of a full-scale specimen under the SERIES European 7th Framework Program. During her postdoctoral work, she participated in the vulnerability assessment of existing buildings in Cyprus and risk management in the case of natural hazards affecting the structural environment within the European Research Program ISTOS. She numerically modelled and studied the behaviour of existing RC frame buildings retrofitted with RC infill walls under different earthquake inputs at various levels of acceleration to examine the impact on fragility curves. Furthermore, she conducted numerical studies on offshore structures and their monitoring within the EMERGE Research Centre. Additionally, as part of the Dutch project “Protecting Heritage from Space”, she assessed cultural heritage site subjected to land subsidence using computational modelling and remote sensing, integrating computational modelling and remote sensing to protect build heritage. Her research interests include the seismic risk assessment and retrofitting of existing structures, the numerical simulation of structures using finite element analysis, and disaster risk reduction. Further, her research aims include the integration of remote sensing with computational modelling as a potential monitoring technique for buildings and soil-structure interaction modelling.

She is a member of the Technical Chamber of Cyprus (ETEK), the Society of Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics in London (SECED) and the Society of Civil Engineers of Cyprus (SPOLMIK).