Alexandros Taflanidis

About

Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Alexandros Taflanidis is Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences. Taflanidis received his Ph.D. in 2008 in Civil Engineering with a minor in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology. Subsequently he conducted postdoctoral research at Duke University. He joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame in 2008. Dr. Taflanidis currently oversees the operation of the High Performance system Analysis and Design (HIPAD) laboratory. He is also part of the University of Notre Dame team (Engineering2Empower) that is committed to scholarship and service for Haiti following the devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Thematic Interests

Natural hazard risk assessment, civil infrastructure maintenance, and post-disaster recovery in developing countries; simulation-based engineering science for disaster risk reduction (DRR)

Current Research

Challenges for natural hazard risk assessment and mitigation in megacities and developing countries; empowerment models for residential housing in the developing world.

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Journal Articles

Coauthors. "The Haitian housing dilemma: can sustainability and hazard-resilience be achieved?" Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 10, 3 (2012)

Coauthors. "Empowerment Model for Sustainable Residential Reconstruction in Léogâne, Haiti, after the January 2010 Earthquake" (with Mix, D., and Kavanagh, R. ) Leadership Manage. Eng. 12, 4 (2012)

Coauthors, "Assessment of Residential Housing in Léogâne, Haiti, and Identification of Needs for Rebuilding after the January 2010 Earthquake" (with Dustin Mix), Earthquake Spectra 27, 1 (2011)

Book Chapters

“Soft computing applications in simulation based natural hazard risk assessment” in Tsompanakis, Y, and B.H.V. Topping eds., Soft Computing Methods for Civil and Structural Engineering (Saxe-Coburg Publications, 2011)

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate teaching - 2014

Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching - 2018-19

Grant Year: 2018-2019 Toward a Global Inventory of Climate Adaptations Based on Local Ways of Knowing: A Study of Adaptive Capacity Among Vulnerable Populations in Bangladesh and Haiti Grants to Support Faculty Fellows' Research

Grant Year: 2014-2015 Retrofitting “The Bridge to Nowhere”: Redefining Post-Disaster Sheltering Programs for the Developing World Grants to Support Faculty Fellows' Research

Grant Year: 2012-2013 In-Situ Technology Incubators to Accelerate Sustainable Development Solutions: Can the Communities We Serve Become Their Own Engines of Innovation? Grants to Support Faculty Fellows' Research

News

Three Faculty Fellows Honored for Undergrad Teaching

May 22, 2019

Three faculty fellows at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies are among 20 University of Notre Dame faculty members to receive Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

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Kellogg Welcomes Largest-ever ISP Class

Sep 17, 2018

The Kellogg Institute for International Studies is welcoming its largest-ever cohort of Kellogg International Scholars to campus this semester, following record interest in the Institute’s signature program for undergraduates.