Dr. Georgios Balomenos is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Postgraduate Program Quality Management and Technology (DIP) within the School of Science and Technology at the Hellenic Open University (Patra, Greece). Prior to this position, he was an Assistant Professor within the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, Canada). 

Before joining McMaster as a Faculty member, Dr. Balomenos was the Shell Center for Sustainability Postdoctoral Fellow with an appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA). At Rice, his work was co-advised by Professor Jamie E. Padgett and Professor Philip B. Bedient. His postdoctoral research focused on understanding and enhancing the sustainability of coastal infrastructure, through risk and resilience assessment of energy and transportation infrastructure subjected to hurricane hazards, with case studies in the Houston Ship Channel region. 

Dr. Balomenos received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada), where his research was focused on structural reliability using surrogate modeling and finite element analysis, and it was supervised by Professor Mahesh D. Pandey. Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Balomenos received two 5-year engineering Diplomas (the first in Environmental Engineering and the second in Civil Engineering) and a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Hydroinformatics from the Democritus University of Thrace (Xanthi, Greece). His research interests include fragility modeling, risk assessment and resilience quantification of infrastructure systems under multiple hazards; use of smart techniques for real-time monitoring, inspection and damage detection of bridges; identification of risk mitigation strategies; probabilistic finite element analysis and structural reliability. 

Dr. Balomenos is a voting member of the ACI Committee 348 (Structural Reliability and Safety), and an associate member of the ACI/ASCE Committees 343 (Concrete Bridge Design), 445 (Shear and Torsion), 447 (Finite Element Analysis of RC Structures).