Prof. Dr. Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni

Assoc. Professor Dr. Denise-Penelope N. Kontoni is Greek. She received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (Grade of Diploma: excellent, ranked 1st). She received her Ph.D. in Structural Engineering (Doctor of Civil Engineering) from the University of Patras, Greece (Grade: excellent, Ph.D. Thesis Title: “Dynamic Elastoplastic Analysis by the Boundary Element Method”). She was an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Greece. She has also served as Head of this Department. Since 07-05-2019, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the “University of the Peloponnese”, Greece, specializing in Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering, Finite Element Method (FEM), Boundary Element Method (BEM), Computer-Aided Structural Analysis, and Computer Programming in Civil Engineering. She is also the Departmental Erasmus+ Coordinator. She has also taught for 21 years at the Hellenic Open University, Greece where she now supervises M.Sc. Theses. She has also been a member of many M.Sc. and Ph.D. examining committees. She is the author of two-hundred (200) Scientific Articles in refereed International Journals and in Proceedings of International Scientific Conferences, which have received many Citations from other researchers.