Katerina Ziotopoulou, PhD, PE

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Position Title
Associate Professor

  • Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
3141 Ghausi Hall
Education and Degree(s)
  • 2022 Outstanding Dataset Award, NSF NHERI DesignSafe Cyber Infrastructure
Honors and Awards
  • 2022 UC Davis College of Engineering Comet Commendation
  • 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • 2021 Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • 2019 UC Davis ACCELERATE Teaching Fellow
  • 2019 UC Davis Wakeham Mentoring Fellow
  • 2018 Elsevier Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Outstanding Reviewer
  • 2017 Greek International Woman Award (GIWA) in Science
  • 2017 ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Outstanding Reviewer Recognition
  • 2017 UC Davis Engaged Learning Community Award
  • 2016 Virginia Tech Anonymous Thank You Letter Award
  • 2016 Virginia Tech CIDER Teacher of the Week
  • 2015 W(H)YDOC Young Doctors in Geomechanics Fellow
  • 2015 ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) ASCE Fellow
  • 2014 Geotechnical Graduate Student Society, UC Davis – Best Presentation Award
  • 2014 Geotechnical Graduate Student Society, UC Davis – Best Poster Award
  • 2013 Fugro West Graduate Fellowship
  • 2013 PEER Delegate – Travel Award for 10th Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering
  • 2012 Idriss Award for Excellence in Geotechnical Engineering
  • 2011 Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship
  • 2008-2011 International Fulbright Science and Technology Award
  • 2007 Ippokleides Vogiatzopoulos Award (Top of NTUA class of 2007)
  • 2007 Thomaideio Academic Award and Medal of Honor (Top of NTUA class of 2007)
  • 2007 Nikolaou Kritikou Award (Top of NTUA class of 2007)
  • 2002-2003, 2005-2006 Technical Chamber of Greece Scholarship for Excellence
  • 2002-2004 Excellence in Mathematics: C. Papakyriakopoulos Honor & N. Kritikou Scholarship
  • 2002-2003 Ioannis Chatsopoulos Honor for Excellence in Descriptive Geometry