Elina Efthymiou, Ph.D.

Education

Ph.D., Structural Engineering, City, University of London, UK, 2019
MSc, Bridge Engineering, University of Surrey, UK, 2012
5-Year Diploma, Civil/Structural Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece 2011

2022 ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2022 Travel Grant/Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to attend the Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Summer Institute for Early-Career Faculty
Honorary award for an early career female scientist in STEM after PhD, WOMEN+ Symposium, 2021
Top 50 Women in Engineering: Returners and Transferrers, Women's Engineering Society (WES), 2018
2nd Prize winner of the poster competition at the 20 th Young Researchers’ Conference of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), 2018

Efthymiou E., N. Makris. 2022. “Pulse-period – moment-magnitude relations derived with wavelet analysis and their relevance to estimate structural deformations”. Earthq. Eng. & Struct. Dyn., Vol. 51(7): 1636–1656
Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2022. “Multi-angle and nonuniform ground motions on cable-stayed bridges”. Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 38(2): 1438–1462
Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2021. “Inelastic response of cable-stayed bridges subjected to non-uniform motions”. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Vol. 19(6): 2691–2710
Makris N., E. Efthymiou. 2020. “Time-response functions of fractional derivative rheological models”. Rheologica Acta, Vol. 59(12): 849–873
Camara A., E. Efthymiou. 2017. “Deck–tower interaction in the transverse seismic response of cable-stayed bridges and optimum configurations”, Engineering Structures, Vol. 124: 494–506

Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2021. “Ground motion spatial variability and cable-stayed bridges: Do we need to consider the asynchronous motion?”, IABSE Congress Ghent, September 22 – 24, 2021, Ghent (Belgium)
Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2018. “Spatial variability effects on long-span cable-stayed bridges”, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), June 18 – 21, 2018, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2018. “Cable-stayed bridges under spatially variable ground motions”, 20th Young Researchers’ Conference – Institution of Structural Engineers (20YRC-IStructE), April 10, 2018, London (UK) — 2nd Prize Winner – Poster Competition
Efthymiou E., A. Camara. 2017. “The Effect of multi-angle, spatially variable seismic motions on cable-stayed bridges”, 6th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN), June 15 – 17, 2017, Rhodes (Greece)
Efthymiou E., K. Kalfas, I. Flower. 2017. “Engineers for Overseas Development (EfOD): Inspiration and Development of Young Designers through Humanitarian Aid”, IABSE Conference Bath, April 19 – 20, 2017, Bath (UK)

Official Reviewer in Engineering Journals: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering; Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration & Active Control
Member of Scientific Committees in International Conferences: IABSE Congress Ghent, Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs; IABSE Congress Nanjing, Bridges and Structures: Connection, Integration and Harmonisation
Engineers for Overseas Development (EfOD), Member and Chair of the London Branch (2016 – 2019)
Women’s Engineering Society (WES), Elected Board Member (2018 - 2019)
IABSE British Group, Elected Member of the Executive Committee (2017 - 2019)

Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, York College of Pennsylvania, PA, USA (2021 – present)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southern Methodist University, TX, USA (2019 – 2021)
Assistant Bridge Engineer, Arcadis NV, London, UK (2018 – 2019)
Teaching Assistant and Laboratory Instructor, City, University of London, UK (2016 – 2019)
Civil Engineer, HYDROMON Consultants Llp, Athens, Greece (2012 – 2015)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE – Elected Member), 2020
Chartered Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, 2011
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE – Individual Member), 2013
IABSE Young Engineers Programme (YEP) Board (Elected Member), 2016
Women’s Engineering Society (Elected Board Member 2018 – 2019), 2018