Stella Pytharouli

Dr Stella Pytharouli obtained her Civil Engineering Diploma, MSc in Civil Engineering and Ph.D in Dam Deformation analysis at the University of Patras (Greece). Since October 2009 she has been appointed as a Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde. Between September 2007 and 2009, she held a NERC Research Fellowship at the same Department. Through her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Geodesy Lab. in Patras she was greatly involved in the monitoring of ground and structure deformations and the optimum, in both practical and economical sense, design of monitoring systems for engineering projects i.e. dams, landslides, wind power generators, pylons. Her work also involved analysis and interpretation of monitoring data collected from a wide range of civil engineering applications such as landslides, tunnel excavations, seismic faulting, ground deformation due to earthquakes etc. Her post-doctoral research was in the field of geophysics and geomechanics; she focused on the analysis and the modelling of the temporal evolution of seismicity and permeability within faults based on high quality shallow seismicity data. Her current research interests are focused on the investigation of the use of nanoseismics in engineering applications and aim to the monitoring of the mechanical evolution of the rock mass surrounding underground waste repositories. Since 2007 she is a member of Faults and Fluid Flow (FAFF) group based in Glasgow.