Nikolaos obtained his School Certificate(Apolyterion) from the 3rd General Lyceum of Agrinion, Greece with distinction. Afterwards, due to his special love for Mathematics and Physics and deep interest in the built environment, he decided to study Civil Engineering for his undergraduate Degree.
Nikolaos holds a Diploma (MEng) in Civil Engineering (5-year degree), conferred by the University of Patras, Greece (2017). During his studies, he was attracted by modules concerning Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering, Foundations, Soil Dynamics and Mechanics and Structural Analysis. Within the last four semesters of his studies, he specialized in Structural Engineering and undertook a thesis on investigating the seismic response of continuous girder bridges excited by horizontally propagating seismic waves (e.g. Rayleigh waves, non-vertically propagating body waves).
Furthermore, Nikolaos acquired a Master of Science Degree (MSc) in Geotechnical Engineering, from the University of Dundee (2018). At Dundee University, he obtained a lot of knowledge and experience in finite element analysis, offshore geotechnical engineering, advanced structural analysis and soil mechanics. The main scope of his Master thesis was to investigate topographic amplification by using the Finite Element Method [FEM] via PLAXIS 2D software. The objectives were to satisfactorily reproduce the expected accelerations from a previous lab research project, where a centrifuge model was used, and create different soil models with different soil layers and test them in different earthquake motions.
At the moment, he is a PhD student at Newcastle University, UK. His research focuses on wellbore stability for carbon sequestration in geological formations.