Abstract

Dimitri Papastamatiou, a member of the Society for over 25 years and a prominent engineering seismologist in Europe, died in Athens on 4 July 2000, after a short illness. Dimitri graduated with a Ph.D. from the Imperial College Engineering Seismology Section in 1971 under the supervision of Professor N. N. Ambraseys. The subject of his thesis was “Ground Motion and Response of Earth Structures to Strong Earthquakes.” Dimitri continued at Imperial College until 1974 and then worked for six years as Senior Engineer in the Advanced Technology Group of Dames & Moore in London. During this time, he also acted as a UNESCO consultant to the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Between 1980 and 1981, Dimitri was a Director of Geognosis Ltd. in London, responsible for the development of numerical …

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