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Dr.  Sideris is an Associate Professor and holder of the E.B. Snead '25 Career Development Professorship I in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Dr. Sideris was an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also served as the Director of the Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory. He received his Master's (2008) and Ph.D. (2012) in Civil Engineering from the University at Buffalo - SUNY. He also holds a diploma in Civil Engineering (2005) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Prior to joining the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Sideris was appointed as Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the University at Buffalo - SUNY (September 2012 - May 2013). 

Dr. Sideris is dedicated to impactful teaching and novel research. He has taught courses on Experimental Methods, Structural Dynamics, Reinforced Concrete Design, Statics, Mechanics of Solids, Applied Mathematics and Numerical Methods, and Computer Programming. His research focuses on advancing structural resilience and sustainability through integration of novel dynamics (e.g., rocking and sliding connectivity), new and sustainable materials (polymers, bio-polymers, hempcrete) and new construction methods (e.g., segmental construction, construction 3D printing). Dr. Sideris’ research group has been conducting research on construction 3D printing for structural applications, including affordable housing. His group investigates printing with cementitious materials, both conventional (e.g., mortars/concretes) and new (e.g., hempcrete), which are intended to achieve both resilience and sustainability. His group further focuses on design methods for printed structures, topology optimization, constitutive modeling and computational simulations, and experimental validations. Dr. Sideris’ research group also studies the resilience of coastal structures as well as the performance of bridges under service conditions, including aging, and extreme events, such as earthquakes. Dr. Sideris’ research group further develops advanced simulation models for reinforced concrete members.  As part of his research endeavors, Dr. Sideris has conducted large-scale shake table and quasi-static testing of bridges and nonstructural components, material characterization testing, and seismic performance assessments of structures, ad has developed various computational models for the analysis of structures. These efforts have been supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Education (DOEd), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). 

Dr. Sideris serves as voting member of the ACI 564 Committee on 3D Printing with Cementitious Materials, Secretary of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) 564-0B sub-committee on Structural Design and Testing, and member of the ASCE/EMI Computational Mechanics Committee. He is also the former Chair of the ASCE/SEI Seismic Effects Committee. He also serves as a reviewer for several journals, including the Journal of Structural Engineering, Journal of Bridge Engineering, and Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 

A list of Awards and Honors for Dr. Sideris are included here...