He holds a 5-year Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with specialization in Structural Engineering. He also holds an MSc from NTUA on "Structural Design and Analysis of Structures", a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and a PhD from the School of Civil Engineering of NTUA. His research work focuses mainly on the Finite Element Method, Static and Dynamic Analysis of Structures, Earthquake Engineering, Optimum Design of Structures, Reliability and Probabilistic Analysis of Structures and Neural Networks and their Applications in Engineering. His published work includes more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, edited books and others.