Konstantinos holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2010) and an MSc with merit in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management from the University College London (2011). Following the completion of his MSc studies, he worked as a Discipline Engineer for the oil & gas engineering consultancy DeepSea UK within their Subsea Structures group. In June 2013 he joined the Institute of Steel Structures at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), where he obtained his PhD (2018). He then served as a Research Associate at NTUA jointly with his Postdoctoral research activities at the University of Thessaly. Upon the award of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, he joined École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as a Postdoctoral scientist. He has also conducted postdoctoral research with the Chair of Seismic Design and Analysis at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) and the University of Birmingham (UoB). His consulting/professional experience is focused on the risk assessment of steel structures and community critical industrial facilities and bridges. He is the recipient of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship (2019), the EuroTech Postdoc Fellowship (2020) and the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars and Artists (2020). He has also participated in several research projects, funded by the EU Research Executive Agency, the EU Research Fund for Coal and Steel, the Hellenic General Secretariat for Research and Technology and the Swiss Federal Commission for Scholarships.