Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2350 Hayward, 2356 GG Brown
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2008
- M.Sc., University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2004
- Ptychion, University of Patras, Greece, 2003
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Award. 2004-2007
- Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California at Berkeley, 2006
- Harry Bolton Seed Award, University of California at Berkeley, 2004
- Associate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE),
- Member of United States Society of Dams (USSD),
- Member of GEER (http://research.eerc.berkeley.edu/projects/GEER/Organization.html),
- Member of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) (http://www.eeri.org/site/),
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Berkeley Geoengineering Alumni Association http://berkeley.geoengineer.org/,
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal, website development (http://earthquake.geoengineer.org).
Static and dynamic response and performance of levee systems and dams, soil liquefaction engineering, static and seismic response of soft soils and organic soils in the laboratory and the field, soil-structure interaction and numerical modeling.
J.D. Rogers, G.P. Boutwell, D.W. Schmitz, D. Karadeniz, C.M. Watkins, A. Athanasopoulos- Zekkos, and D. Cobos-Roa, (2008) “Geologic Conditions Underlying the 2005 17th Street Canal Levee Failure in New Orleans”, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol.134(5), 583-601.
R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, R. I. Abdelmalak, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J.-L. Briaud, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. Ehrensing, A. V. Govindasamy, L. F. Harder, K. S. Inkabi, J. Nicks, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, K. Rhee, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, J. Wartman, (2008) "New Orleans & Hurricane Katrina: I - Introduction, Overview, and the East Flank", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol.134(5), 701-717.
R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. Ehrensing, L. F. Harder, J. M. Pestana, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman, (2008) "New Orleans & Hurricane Katrina: II - The Central Region and the Lower Ninth Ward", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol.134(5), 718-739.
R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, L. F. Harder, R. E. S. Moss, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman, (2008) "New Orleans & Hurricane Katrina: III - The 17th Street Drainage Canal", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol.134(5), 740-761.
R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, A. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, C. Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, J. Cohen-Waeber, B. D. Collins, L. F. Harder, R.E. Kayen, R. E. S. Moss, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, M. F. Riemer, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, X. Vera-Grunauer, and J. Wartman, (2008) "New Orleans & Hurricane Katrina: IV - The Orleans East Bank (Metro) Protected Basin", ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Vol.134(5), 762-779.
Athanasopoulos-Zekkos A., Zekkos D. and Matasovic N., “Validation of generic municipal solid waste material properties for seismic design of landfills”, (2008), 4th Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference, Sacramento, CA, May 18-22, 2008.