Theodore Stathopoulos
Professor
Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
Concordia University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Stathopoulos received his Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He joined the Centre for Building Studies, Concordia University in 1979. His work in the area of wind engineering and building aerodynamics has received national and international recognition and forms the basis for wind design of low-rise buildings in the 1990, 1995 and 2005 National Building Code of Canada. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1982 and to the rank of Professor in 1987. He has been Associate Director of the Centre for Building Studies for the period 1983-1995. In 1993, he was appointed Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, a position he held until 1998, when he became Director of the Centre for Building Studies for the period 1998-2001. Since the beginning of 2003, he has been Associate Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Concordia University. Dr. Stathopoulos has established an excellent teaching record at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has also been active in the development of educational models. In 1997, he received the Concordia Council on Student Life Teaching Excellence Award and in 2006, the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has an outstanding research record with more than 350 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His work in the area of wind engineering and building aerodynamics has received national and international recognition. It forms the basis for wind design of low-rise buildings in the 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2005 National Building Code of Canada, and it has been partly included in the 1982 American National Wind Standard (later ASCE 7-88, 93, 95, 98, 02, 05) and in other standards as well.
Research Interest
Dr. Ststhopoulos's research interests include Wind effects on buildings, Building aerodynamics, Wind environment, Dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment and Computational wind engineering.
