Panos Dakoulas received his diploma in Civil Engineering at the NTUA, Greece, in 1980 and his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, in 1985, where subsequently, he worked as research associate in charge of the soil dynamics laboratory. In 1987 he moved to Rice University, Houston, USA, where he served as assistant professor and, after 1993, as associate professor. In 2001 he joined the University of Thessaly, Greece, where he is currently an associate professor. His research is in the area of soil dynamics and focuses on the seismic behavior of earth dams, experimental soil behavior, liquefaction, constitutive modeling of cohesive and cohesionless soils, modeling of the behavior of liquefiable soils, seismic behavior of waterfront structures, and numerical methods in geomechanics. He has served as chair of the Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Committee of the Geotechnical Division of ASCE from 1992 to 2000, and as member of the Editorial Board of the J. of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering. He received the Prakash Award in 1995. He has served as consultant on several major projects related to earth dams, bridges, natural gas pipeline systems, offshore foundations, etc.