Adda Athanasopoulos-Personal Page

Address: 443 Davis Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

e-mail: adda@berkeley.edu

Educational Background:

2004 – present : PhD student in Geoengineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University
                         of California at Berkeley. Advisor: Prof. R. B. Seed.

2003 –2004 :      Master of Science from the Geoengineering Program, Department of Civil & Environmental
                         Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. Awarded the 2004 Harry Bolton Seed Award.

1998 – 2003 :    Civil Engineering Degree from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Patras,
                        Greece, overall grade: 7.88/10, overall ranking: 2nd/178 (5 years mandatory program)

Selected Scholarships - Awards:

August 2004 – present: National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) Award

May 2006: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

January 2005: Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the University of California at Berkeley.

Course: CE270L: Advanced Soil Mechanics Laboratory, instructed by Prof. R. B.
Seed.

May 2004: Awarded the 2004 Harry Bolton Seed Award from UC Berkeley, Geoengineering

Group.

January 2004: Scholarship by the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, University of

California at Berkeley.

August 2003: Graduate Fellowship by the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department,

University of California at Berkeley.

August 2003: Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the University of California at Berkeley.

Course: CE175: Introduction to Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering,
instructed by Prof. J. Pestana.

March 1999 to 2002: Academic Performance Scholarship in the Department of Civil and Environmental

Engineering. Granted from the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (I.K.Y) -
Ranking: 2nd/178

Languages:

Greek (native language)

English (fluent)

French (fluent)

Spanish (Elementary Level)

Selected Teaching Experience

		Fall 2006: Graduate Student Instructor, CE 275 graduate level course “Geotechnical Earthquake
		Engineering” instructed by Prof. R. B. Seed.

		Spring 2006: Graduate Student Instructor, CE 270B graduate level course “Advanced Foundation
		Engineering” instructed by Prof. R. B. Seed

		Spring 2005: Graduate Student Instructor, CE 270L graduate level course “Advanced Soil Mechanics
		Laboratory” instructed by Prof. R. B. Seed and Prof. M. Riemer

		Fall 2004: Graduate Student Instructor, CE 270A graduate level course “Advanced Soil Mechanics”
		instructed by Prof. R. B. Seed.

		Fall 2003: Graduate Student Instructor, in the CE 175 upper-level undergraduate course “Introduction to
		Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering” instructed by Prof. J. Pestana.

Selected Activities in the Civil Engineering Field:

March 2005 : Webmaster of the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal

May 2003: Member of the organizing committee of the 2nd Hellenic Civil Engineering Students'

Conference in Volos, Greece

		May 2001: Founder and editor of the 1st Hellenic Civil Engineering Students' Conference in Patras,
		Greece. The conference included 35 students’ presentations from all Greek Civil

Engineering Departments with 700 participants.

Publications:

		R. B. Seed, R. G. Bea, R. I. Abdelmalak, A. G. Athanasopoulos, G. P. Boutwell, J. D. Bray, J.-L. Briaud, C.
		Cheung, D. Cobos-Roa, J. Cohen-Waeber, B. D. Collins, L. Ehrensing, D. Farber, M. Hanemann, L. F. Harder, K. S. Inkabi, A. M. Kammerer, D. Karadeniz, R.E. Kayen, R. E. S. Moss, J. Nicks, S. Nimmala, J. M. Pestana, J. Porter, K. Rhee, M. F. Riemer, K. Roberts, J. D. Rogers, R. Storesund, A. V. Govindasamy, X. Vera-Grunauer, J. E. Wartman, C. M. Watkins, E. Wenk Jr., and S. C. Yim, (2006), "Investigation of the performance of the New Orleans flood protection systems in hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005", Report No.UCB/CCRM – 06/01, July 2006, University of California at Berkeley, (http://www.ce.berkeley. edu/~new_orleans /)

		Zekkos, D. P., Athanasopoulos, A. (2004), “Milos island: Working with earth for more than 9000 years”.
		cover story in AEG News, magazine of the Association of Engineering Geologists, March 2004, Vol. 47, Issue 1. (.html and .pdf versions)

		Zekkos, D.P., Athanasopoulos, A.G., Athanasopoulos, G.A. (2004), “Deep supported excavation in difficult
		ground conditions in the city of Patras, Greece – Measured Vs. Predicted behavior”, 5th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. New York, NY, April 13-17, 2004.

		Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos, A., Manousakis, J., (2003), “Geotechnical Engineering Experiences in the
		Homeric Poems”, Newsletter of the Technical Chamber of Greece, issue 2231, January 20th, 2003.

		Diploma Thesis (2003) “Rion – Antirion Bridge: The foundation system of the Antirion approach viaduct
		and results of axial and lateral loading tests on 2m – diameter steel pipe piles”, under the supervision of

Prof. G.A. Athanasopoulos (Patras – June 2003, Greece).

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