 | Nicos Makris (Nikolaos Makris) |
Foreign member
Department of Technical Sciences
Field of study
Civil technology, earthquake engineering, applied and theoretical mechanics
Education
BSc (1988) National Technical University, Athens, Greece; MSc in civil engineering (1990) State University of New York in Buffalo, PhD (1992).
Career
Research Assistant, Senior Research Scientist at the State University of New York at Buffalo; Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame; Assistant Professor, University of California at Berkeley (1996-1998), associate professor (1998-2002), full professor (2002-2005); University of Patras, Greece, full professor(2003-2019); University of Central Florida, full professor (2014-2018); Southern Methodist University, honorary professor (since 2018).
Accession speech
“From Hooke’s ‘Hanging Chain’ and Milankovitch’s ‘Druckkurve’ to a Variational Formulation: The Adventure of the Thrust Line of Masonry Arches”, April 2025
Membership of other academies
Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, Academia Europaea
Membership of specialist associations
American Society of Civil Engineers; The International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), The Society of Rheology
Awards and recognitions
The T.K. Hsieh Award from the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK (1997)
NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, USA, (1996)
The Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil for an outstanding paper in the field of civil engineering (2001)
Southern Methodist University Prize for an outstanding professor (2020)
George W. Housner Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers (2023)