Meet the 3DMBC Team!
Konstantinos (Kostas) Daniel Tsavdaridis is Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Science & Technology (SST) at City, University of London and the Director of 3DMBC. He holds an MEng and a PhD from City, University of London and an MSc (DIC) from Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), a Chartered Civil Engineer in the UK (CEng) and Europe-FEANI (EUR ING), a Chartered Structural Engineer and Member of The Institution of Structural Engineers (MIStructE), The European Council of Civil Engineers, and an Associate Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (MASCE). His research expertise is in structural product development that embraces resilience and sustainability. Particularly the development of innovative seismic-resistant design of connections, through testing large and full-scale structural systems and using advanced modelling techniques. He has published over 200 scientific articles, technical reports and international conference papers.
Professor Tsavdaridis also worked as a Principle Structural Stress Specialist engineer for Pell Frischmann in London, on developing sophisticated high fidelity computational models for optimising the design of an EPR Nuclear Plant Station developed by AREVA_SIEMENS. He is an active member of several standardisation committees: BSI (B/525/9) Structural use of Aluminium, BSI (B/525/8) Structures in Seismic Regions, fib (CEB-FIP, COM7-TG:7.6) Resilient Structures, IStructE – Sustainability Panel, IASS (WG:8) Metal Spatial Structures, and a member of several international scientific committees such as the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork, the International Federation for Structural Concrete, the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), the Hellenic Steel Structures Research Society (EEME), the Hellenic Association for Earthquake Engineering (ETAM), and the Hellenic Institute for the Fire Protection of Structures (ELIPYKA). In 2019, he was awarded with the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Senior Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering for his work in steel modular construction, followed up by a Royal Society Award in 2021 for further expanding on this front and collaborating closely with policy makers to introduce regulation and assist parliamentarians in realising the transformation of the construction sector.
Dan-Adrian Corfar
PhD Candidate
Currently in the third year of his PhD in Structural Engineering at City, University of London under the supervision of Professor Tsavdaridis, he is also part of the KDT research group. His main research interests focus on the development of smart and resilient inter-module connections (IMCs) for passive damage control of hot-rolled steel modular building systems (MBSs).
Zhengyao Li
PhD Candidate
Currently a PhD student in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds (UK) under the supervision of Professor Tsavdaridis, she is also being part of the KDT and Materials and Structures research groups. Prior to this, she studied Engineering Mechanics (BSc) at the Zhengzhou University (China) and Innovative Structural Materials (MSc) at the University of Bath (UK).
Meysam Bayat
PhD Candidate
Meysam Bayat is a PhD student in the School of Science & Technology (SST) at City, University of London. Under the supervision of Professor KD Tsavdaridis, his research focuses on steel connections and perforated beams. Before this, he joined Jarf Ideh Zaman Civil Engineering Company, and his primary responsibility was the design of reinforced concrete and steel structures and execute them.
George Psyrras
PhD Candidate
George Psyrras is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering at City, University of London under the supervision of Professor KD Tsavdaridis. He holds a Diploma (M.Eng.) in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. His research interests lie in the fields of seismic design of steel and composite structures, design automation and model optimization of structural finite element models, software development, and artificial intelligence applications on structural engineering towards developing more sophisticated and robust solutions.
Kimia Saffarzadeh
PhD Candidate
Kimia Saffarzadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Engineering at City, University of London. She holds a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Structural Engineering from the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Her expertise includes developing seismic loading patterns to perform quasi-static tests using the MATLAB programming language. She is also specialising on linear and non-linear structural analysis using OpenSees, Abaqus, and Ansys.
Fahad Almutairi
PhD Candidate
Fahad Almutairi is a PhD candidate in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds (UK) under the main supervision of Professor Tsavdaridis. He is also part of the KDT and 3DMBC research groups. His research project focuses on seismic steel-concrete bolted reduced web section (RWS) connections.
Ahmed Alali
PhD Candidate
Ahmed Alali is a PhD candidate in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds (UK) under the supervision of Professor Tsavdaridis. He is also part of the KDT research group. His research project focuses on studying the flexural behaviour and sustainability of the recently developed Prefabricated Ultra-Shallow Steel-Concrete Composite Slabs (PUSS). PUSS is aimed for use in steel frames with large spans as well as for modular building systems.
Bahareh Maleki
PhD Candidate
Bahareh Maleki is currently a PhD student in the department of civil and environment engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) under the supervision of Dr Albert De La Fuente Antequera and Dr Maria del Mar Casanovas Rubio. The main focus of her thesis is about tall buildings in Dubai, UAE as well as high-rise prefabricated residential buildings in London. Following field studies and detailed examination of the two buildings in London, the results of the sustainability of these buildings are similar to the numerical standard of BREEAM.
Affiliate members
Dr Agathoklis Giaralis
Associate Professor (Reader)
Dr Agathoklis Giaralis is Associate Professor (Reader) in Structural Dynamics in the Department of Engineering at City, University of London, where he is spearheading research on Smart Structures and Structural Health Monitoring. He holds a Diploma in Structural Engineering and an MSc in Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures from the Department of Civil Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and received his PhD from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA partly funded by a Fulbright Exchange Scholarship.
Dr Zixiao Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Currently works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at City, University of London. Before this, he studied at the University of Regina (Canada) with a scholarship and then at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), obtaining his BASc (Hons) and MEng degrees in civil/structural engineering in 2010 and 2012, separately.
Dr Andrés Alonso Rodriguez
Lecturer
Dr Andrés Alonso Rodriguez is a Lecturer in Structural Engineering at the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy at The University of Exeter. He holds a diploma in Civil Engineering from the Pontifical Xaverian University of Bogotá, Colombia, graduating as the best of his cohort. His main interest is exploring ways to make infrastructure more resilient and sustainable through the development of early warning systems and novel modular and prefabricated solutions that allow for quick reconstruction in the aftermath of natural catastrophes.
Dr Afshin Moslehi Tabar
Assistant Professor
Afshin Moslehi Tabar received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 1997. Then after, he got his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the same university in 1999 and 2006, respectively. His research interests consist of seismic rehabilitation and structural dynamic and stability analysis. Moreover, he is proficient in the formulation of nonlinear numerical structural analyses using both civil-engineering practice tools and high-fidelity finite element model implementations like CSi solutions, ABAQUS and ANSYS. He has worked on the modelling and implementation of different steel connections like RBS and RWS.
Dr Honeyeh Ramezansefat
Researcher
Dr. Honeyeh Ramezansefat is Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University, Mechanical and Construction Engineering Department, and at Newcastle University, Geotechnical and Structural Engineering group. Prior she joined the University of Leeds as a Post-doctoral Research Associate working in the formulation of reuse operations for steel modular building systems.
Kashan Khan
PhD Candidate
Mr. Kashan Khan is a full-time Ph.D. student at Tianjin University, the first contemporary science and technology university in China. He is supervised by Professor Zhihua Chen (Vice President) and Professor Tsavdaridis (External supervisor). In addition, he is a member of the research teams of Professor Chen’s Tianjin Steel Structure Association and Professor KDT’s 3DMBC (3D Modular Building Connections). Before this, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology (Pakistan) and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering from Tianjin University (China).
Amirhossein Emamikoupaei
Teaching Associate
Amirhossein Emamikoupaei holds a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and a master’s in Civil-Earthquake Engineering at the Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. His research interests include developing Finite Element modelling in Python, seismic vulnerability assessment, development of incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) and appropriate probabilistic seismic demand model (PSDMs) for performance-based methods, and earthquake duration.
Ali Bigdeli
PhD Candidate
Ali Bigdeli works as a Structural Engineer in the Yeganeh-Mehraz consulting company. Prior to this, he studied Hydraulic Structures Engineering (MSc) at Tarbiat Modares University (Iran), obtaining his degree in 2020. His current research interests and expertise include the structural and seismic response of modular steel buildings under the supervision of Professor Konstantinos Daniel Tsavdaridis, structural health monitoring, and performance-based design.
Collaborating Researchers
Academic
University of Surrey, UK
Imperial College London, UK
Tianjin University, China
Università della Calabria, Italy
IROAST, Kumamoto University, Japan
Hong Kong Technical University, China
DTU, Denmark
Northumbria University, UK
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
RMIT University, Australia
Northumbria University, UK
Non-Academic
Steel Construction Institute (SCI)
Jacobs
SC4
Expanded | Laing O’Rourke
Hybrid Structures
TechniTex
3D-Alchemy
Knowledge Transfer Network, KTN
TARRC