Dimitrios Lignos

Dimitrios Lignos is a Full Professor and Department Chair of the Civil Engineering Institute at EPFL, where he has been since 2016. Previously, he served as a tenured Associate Professor at McGill University (2010-2016) and held postdoctoral positions at Kyoto University and Stanford University. He earned a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering (2008) and an M.S. in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (2004) from Stanford, along with a 5-year Diploma in Civil/Structural Engineering (2003) from NTUA.

Prof. Lignos specializes in seismic design and assessment of steel and composite-steel concrete structures. His research integrates multi-scale experimental testing, data-driven techniques, and physics-based nonlinear modeling to advance collapse prediction and low-damage structural systems. He contributed to Eurocode 8 revisions (2025) and serves on standards committees for CSA S16 and SIA-263.

His work emphasizes seismic risk assessment, resilient design, and computational mechanics, with articles focused on steel beam-column behavior, panel zone hysteresis, and stiffener spacing requirements. His lab, RESSLAB, develops open-source tools like EaRL for earthquake risk quantification.

Scientific Awards:

• 2025 AISC Special Achievement Award
• 2022 ASCE Raymond Reese Prize
• 2019 ASCE Walter Huber Prize
• 2014 McGill Christophe Pierre Early Career Award

Advising: Supervises PhD students and Master’s projects on topics like seismic retrofitting, residual stress modeling, and low-damage systems.