Grigorios Tsinidis
Grigorios Tsinidis
Associate Professor
Tel: +30 2421 07 4163
Email: gtsinidis@uth.gr
Office hours:
Monday 11:00 – 13:00
Wednesday 09:00 – 11:00
Academic Advisor’s Office Hour: Monday, 11:00–12:00
Undergraduate courses:
Computational Geotechnical Engineering
Computational Geotechnical Engineering II
Postgraduate courses:
Risk, vulnerability and resilience of infrastructure systems against natural hazards
Dr. Grigorios Tsinidis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece, with a specialization in Computational Geotechnical Engineering – Soil–Structure Interaction, and a member of the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Division. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering (2007), an MSc in Seismic Design of Technical Works (2008), and a PhD in Civil Engineering (2015), all from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests focus on computational geotechnical engineering and soil–structure interaction, investigated through advanced numerical analyses and experimental studies in both laboratory and field environments. His research also addresses the assessment of the response, vulnerability, and resilience of infrastructure systems subjected to seismic and other natural hazards, with particular emphasis on underground structures and tunnels, as well as bridge foundations. He has participated as a researcher in numerous national and international research projects and has served as Principal Investigator of two research projects. His scientific output includes more than 81 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of the international journals Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (Elsevier) and Geotechnics (MDPI). In addition to his academic and research activities, Dr. Tsinidis has professional experience in engineering consultancy. He has worked for internationally active engineering consulting companies based in Vienna, Austria (FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH and Vienna Consulting Engineers ZT GmbH). His professional experience covers a broad range of engineering projects, including the design of bridge foundations, excavations in densely built urban environments, retaining structures and embankments, seismic design of buildings, and the design of railway infrastructure isolation systems for mitigating noise and vibrations generated by trams, metro systems, and trains.
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Webpage of research project: INFRARES
Education
Diploma in Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2007)
MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Structures, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2008)
PhD in Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2015)
Recent publications
Karatzetzou A, Stefanidou S, Tsinidis G (2026) INFRARES tool: A fully parametrized, interactive tool for multi-hazard resilience assessment of bridges and tunnels in transportation networks. Sustainability, 18(12): 5854
Abedini F, Xie Y (T), Tsinidis G (2026) Comparative seismic fragility assessment of tunnel infrastructure embedded in soil versus rock. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 200: 109849
Tawalo A, Tsinidis G, Urciuoli G (2025) Numerical framework for risk assessment of buried natural gas pipelines subjected to landslide-induced deformations due to rainfall infiltration: The Miscano Landslide case. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 129: 105776
Tsinidis G, Koutas L (2025) Geotechnical and Structural Damage to the Built Environment of Thessaly Region, Greece, Caused by the 2023 Storm Daniel. Geotechnics, 5(1):16
Tsinidis G, Stefanidou S, Karatzetzou A (2024) New limit states for the seismic fragility assessment of circular tunnels: Application in case of tunnels in clayey soil deposits. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 154:106129
Tsinidis G, Karatzetzou A, Stefanidou S (2024) On the effects of salient parameters for an efficient assessment of seismic response and fragility of circular tunnels in clayey deposits. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 178:108490