Dpl. Civil Engineer, MS Risk Manager, PhD researcher

Dpl. Civil Engineer, MS Risk Manager, PhD researcher

September 2009 – Present
Instructor (Civil Protection), Hellenic National Centre for Public Administration.

January 2008 – Present
PhD researcher, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France.
- Development of a process model-driven and risk-based methodology for performance analysis of industrial internal and external emergency plans.
- Development and assessment of industrial internal and external emergency plans. Organization and assessment of technological major accident response exercises.
- Instruction of courses: Emergency planning & emergency response, Technological accident consequence analysis, Quantitative risk analysis. Coaching students in various projects

January – December 2007
French Red Cross. European Civil Protection Project “Best practices and life support kits for self protection of European Union citizens in households, in case of a daily or disastrous emergency”.
- Knowledge of the European Union & EU Member States Civil Protection Mechanisms.
- Experience in working in an international environment.

February – December 2007
Trainee Risk Manager, Fire and Rescue Service of Val d’Oise, France. Revision of the Risk Analysis and Coverage Plan of the Fire and Rescue Service.
- Major risk analysis in a regional scale.
- Statistical analysis of the risks encountered by the Fire and Rescue Service.
- Knowledge of the French public administration system.

October 2005 – July 2006
Military Service, Hellenic Air Force.
- Assigned to the Installations Department of military air base.
- Study of modernization of the installations and infrastructure of the military air base.

October 2003 – February 2004
Trainee Civil Engineer, H. Vasiliou S.A., Patras, Greece.
- Supervising construction works in various construction sites.

July 2001
Trainee Civil Engineer. Rion-Antirrion Bridge Project (VINCI – France).
- Q.C. during the construction of main bridge pylon (No 3) in wet dock

July-August 2000
Trainee Civil Engineer. Rion-Antirrion Bridge Project (VINCI – France).
- Design of short span bridge with 3D articulated supports

July 1999
Trainee Civil Engineer. Rion-Antirrion Bridge Project (VINCI – France).
- Supervising construction site establishment works

2006
Diploma in Civil Engineering. University of Patras, Greece

2008
Master’s in Disaster Risk Management. Ecole Internationale des Sciences de Traitement de l’Information, Cergy-Pontoise, France.

12/2010 (expected)
PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France. PhD thesis subject “Internal and External Industrial Emergency Plan performance evaluation methodology”.

2001 – 2010
Various conferences and seminars on Civil Engineering and Disaster Management.

ENGLISH
Proficient (Cambridge Proficiency – Grade A – 2001)

FRENCH
Proficient (Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française – 2000)

GERMAN
Basic knowledge

GREEK
Mother tongue

COMPUTER USE
Windows, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, AutoCAD, SAP2000NL, Plaxis, Mathematica, Origin, CAMEO/ALOHA (NOAA/EPA Instructor).

Registered professional engineer (Greece)
Registered professional risk manager (France)

Articles

Karagiannis, G.M., Piatyszek, E., Flaus, J.M., 2010. Industrial emergency planning modeling: A first step towards a robustness analysis tool. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 181(2010), 324-334.


Conferences

Karagiannis, G.M., Piatyszek, E., Flaus, J.M., 2010. Méthodologie pour l’analyse de robustesse des plans de secours industriels. Actes du 17e Congrès sur la Maîtrise des Risques et Sûreté de Fonctionnement – λμ17 : 5-7 octobre 2010, La Rochelle, France [in French].

Karagiannis, G.M., Piatyszek, E., Flaus J.M., 2010. Robustness Analysis of Industrial Emergency Plans: a model-based methodology. Risk Analysis 2010: November 13-15, 2010, Algarve, Portugal.

Karagiannis, G.M., Piatyszek, E., 2009. Consequences of earthquakes and operational needs after an earthquake disaster: an overview. 1st National Conference “Natural Disaster Management – First Hours: November 13-15, 2009, Patras, Greece [in Greek].