Meet our Chair
Chair: Nicholas Kyriakides
Dr Nicholas Kyriakides is an Assistant Professor at the Civil Engineering and Geomatics Department of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a PhD in the field of “Earthquake Risk Assessment of buildings” from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield with an Oversees Student Award Scholarship and a Scholarship from the A. G. Leventis Foundation. He also holds a 1st class BEng degree with Honours from the University of Nottingham. His research interests include the assessment of existing buildings under seismic loading and the enhancement in response after conventional and innovative retrofitting. He has participated in both European and locally funded projects concerning the seismic risk assessment of structures in Cyprus and the Middle East.
Further to his research activities he is very active in policy making committees. Indicatively he has been formally appointed through an evaluation process as a Moderator of the Group for the Protection of Critical Energy Infrastructure (PCEI) of the European Defence Agency, as a Member of sub-committee CYS TC 18-Eurocodes for EC8, a Member of the Committees for the Assessment of Existing Buildings and for Research of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK) and an External expert for the NAT/750-EESC study group to Strengthen EU’s civil Protection response –rescEU. The latter one involves the review of the Commission’s proposal for a new Mechanism for Civil Protection for Europe and enriches his experience and knowhow on the topic of National Risk Assessment for Natural and Technological Hazards.
He was appointed by the Civil Defence Authority as the coordinator of the National Risk Assessment (NRA) Study for Cyprus, which involves the assessment of ten hazards both natural and technological and was also involved in the formulation of the ‘Egelados plan” concerning the response after earthquake events. He acted as the assistant Team Leader in a project for the preparation of an Evaluation report for Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Capacities in Lebanon, which was funded by UNDP and followed the Sendai framework. In 2019 he also coordinated the drafting of the Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Cyprus, which is based on the SENDAI framework of the United Nations. He is also the Vice President B of the Cyprus Association of Civil Engineers.
He is also a member of the executive committee and the educational coordinator of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence A new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) that has been established through the ‘EXCELSIOR’, H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 project. The newly established centre has been created as a result of upgrading the existing Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Lab, which has been operating within the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology since 2007. The vision of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence is to become a world-class Digital Innovation Hub for Earth Observation, space technology and Geospatial Information and to be the reference Centre in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa.
Nicholas is married and has two children, one of whom is currently enrolled at The English School.
Dr Nicholas Kyriakides is an Assistant Professor at the Civil Engineering and Geomatics Department of the Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a PhD in the field of “Earthquake Risk Assessment of buildings” from the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield with an Oversees Student Award Scholarship and a Scholarship from the A. G. Leventis Foundation. He also holds a 1st class BEng degree with Honours from the University of Nottingham. His research interests include the assessment of existing buildings under seismic loading and the enhancement in response after conventional and innovative retrofitting. He has participated in both European and locally funded projects concerning the seismic risk assessment of structures in Cyprus and the Middle East.
Further to his research activities he is very active in policy making committees. Indicatively he has been formally appointed through an evaluation process as a Moderator of the Group for the Protection of Critical Energy Infrastructure (PCEI) of the European Defence Agency, as a Member of sub-committee CYS TC 18-Eurocodes for EC8, a Member of the Committees for the Assessment of Existing Buildings and for Research of the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK) and an External expert for the NAT/750-EESC study group to Strengthen EU’s civil Protection response –rescEU. The latter one involves the review of the Commission’s proposal for a new Mechanism for Civil Protection for Europe and enriches his experience and knowhow on the topic of National Risk Assessment for Natural and Technological Hazards.
He was appointed by the Civil Defence Authority as the coordinator of the National Risk Assessment (NRA) Study for Cyprus, which involves the assessment of ten hazards both natural and technological and was also involved in the formulation of the ‘Egelados plan” concerning the response after earthquake events. He acted as the assistant Team Leader in a project for the preparation of an Evaluation report for Strengthening Disaster Risk Management Capacities in Lebanon, which was funded by UNDP and followed the Sendai framework. In 2019 he also coordinated the drafting of the Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Cyprus, which is based on the SENDAI framework of the United Nations. He is also the Vice President B of the Cyprus Association of Civil Engineers.
He is also a member of the executive committee and the educational coordinator of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence A new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence of the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) that has been established through the ‘EXCELSIOR’, H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 project. The newly established centre has been created as a result of upgrading the existing Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Lab, which has been operating within the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics of the Cyprus University of Technology since 2007. The vision of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence is to become a world-class Digital Innovation Hub for Earth Observation, space technology and Geospatial Information and to be the reference Centre in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa.
Nicholas is married and has two children, one of whom is currently enrolled at The English School.
