Selected Professional Activities
Technical Committees
• ASCE-GEOINSTITUTE Technical Committee on Geoenvironmental Engineering,
member (2006-present)
• Member, Joint Technical Committee (JTC6) on Ancient Monuments/Historical
Sites (2006-present)
Reviews
• Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
(2006, 2007).
• Reviewer, Geosynthetics International Journal (2006).
• Reviewer, 4th decennial Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil
Dynamics Conference (GEESD) organized by the EESD Committee of ASCE's Geo-
Institute, Sacramento, May 18-22 2008.
• Reviewer, 42nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium & 2nd U.S.-Canada Rock
Mechanics Symposium, June 29 - July 2, 2008, San Francisco.
• Reviewer, 6th Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Case Histories, August
11-16, 2008, Arlington, VA.
• Reviewer, “The challenge of Sustainability in the Geoenvironment”, Annual
Congress of the Geo-Institute of the ASCE, March 9-12, 2008, New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA.
Conference - Workshop Organization
• Chair of the Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Waste
Mechanics, March 11-13 2008, New Orleans.
• Session Chair, “Waste Mechanics Session II”, ASCE-GI Geocongress 2008,
March 9-12, 2008, New Orleans.
• Organizing Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Recent
Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics and symposium
in honor of Professor I. M. Idriss San Francisco, CA (USA), Spring 2010.
• International Advising Committee Member, 12th International Conference of
the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics,
1-6 October 2008.
• Organizing Committee Member, 6th Conference on Geotechnical Engineering
Case Histories, August 11-16, 2008, Arlington, VA.
• Organizing Committee Member, Workshop “Geotechnical Earthquake
Engineering related to monuments and historical sites” as part of the 4th
International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineeering, Thessaloniki, 25-
28 June 2006.
• Chair of the Organizing Committee of Workshop: “International Journal of
Geoengineering Case Histories: Case Histories in the Information Technology Age”,
as part of the Geocongress 2006 Annual ASCE Geo-Institute Conference (February
26 – March 1, 2006), Atlanta, Georgia. Co-organizers: Prof. S. Prakash, A.
Athanasopoulos.
Other Initiatives
· May 2004 – today: Founder and Managing Director of the International Journal
of Geoengineering Case Histories.
· May 2001 – today: Founder and Managing Director of Geoengineer.org: A
center for Information Dissemination on Geoengineering.
· August 2006-present: Founder and Chair, Steering Committee of the Berkeley
Geoengineering Alumni Association
· 7-8 May 2001: Founder and President of the 1st Hellenic Civil Engineering
Students Conference in Greece. The conference included 35 students’ presentations
from all Greek Civil Engineering Departments with 700 participants.
· January 2000 – today: Founder and Managing Director of "TheCivilEngineer.
org: A Center for Information Dissemination on Civil Engineering.
· August 2000 – today: Founder and Moderator of e-mail discussion lists in the
Civil and Geotechnical Engineering fields aiming to facilitate interaction and
information exchange among engineers.
· Establishment of a Technical Bibliography Record sponsored by the Civil
Engineering Department of the University of Patras. The bibliography was published
in 150 issues and was distributed for free to the students. You can access an online
edition of the bibliography in Greek here.
Professional Membership – Affiliations
· Technical Chamber of Greece, member
· Berkeley Geoengineering Society, member
· American Society of Civil Engineers, member
· Association of Engineering Geologists, member
· Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, young professional member (No.
8478)
Other contributions
· Speadsheet for Deterministic Shallow foundation design using the Standard
Penetration Test. Available by the Geoengineer Website for free.
Technical Profile of Dimitrios Zekkos
