Kosmas Dragos
Dipl.-Ing. Kosmas Dragos, M.Sc., is a licensed structural engineer and an external research associate of the Laboratory of Strength of Materials. He is a doctoral candidate and works as a scientific assistant for Hamburg University of Technology as of March, 2021 [1]. He studied Civil Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki between 2001 and 2007, specializing in Structural Engineering. After completing his military service, he worked as a work site assistant and work site supervisor between 2009 and 2011, as well as in 2013, coordinating work site activities in several construction projects in Northern Greece (Thessaloniki, Serres) and in South Aegean (Paros). In 2011, he enrolled in Aristotle University’s master’s program “Earthquake-Resistant Design of Structures”, where he received his master’s degree in December, 2012. He started his doctoral research at Bauhaus University Weimar in July, 2014, as a member of Research Training Group “GRK-1462” [2], which supported interdisciplinary research in “Evaluation of Coupled Numerical and Experimental Partial Models in Structural Engineering” from 2008 to 2017. He completed his work at GRK-1462 in June, 2017, and continued his research as an external doctoral candidate at Bauhaus University Weimar and, currently, at Hamburg University of Technology. Between January, 2019, and February, 2021, he worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer for BETA CAE Systems SA in Thessaloniki.
Kosmas Dragos’s doctoral research centers around structural health monitoring (SHM) and the use of embedded computing for implementing modeling and simulation approaches on board wireless sensor networks to meet SHM objectives. The first phase of his research encompassed the evaluation of embedded modeling approaches existing in literature; the evaluation being placed under the umbrella of GRK-1462. The second phase, being part of research program “Resilient infrastructure based on cognitive buildings” supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) [3], focuses on developing physics-based modeling approaches for wireless SHM systems, which are expected to integrate emerging concepts, such as cognitive structures and infrastructure resilience, into traditional SHM.
As a doctoral candidate, Kosmas Dragos has participated in collaborative research projects with international institutes, such as the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto. As a scientific assistant at Bauhaus University and at Hamburg University of Technology, he has been participating in teaching master-of-science classes on structural health (smart) monitoring as well as on scientific working in computational engineering. Furthermore, he has been supervising several master theses and student projects. With respect to publications, during his doctoral studies he has authored and co-authored more than 30 scientific texts, including scientific journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and research grant proposals.
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