Dr. John Raftoyiannis...

...holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Athens, Greece. He also holds an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in stability, composite materials and computational mechanics from West Virginia University (WVU). After WVU, Dr. Raftoyiannis joined the Civil and Geological Engineering Department at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Dr. Raftoyiannis gained broad-based research and field experience through participation in many civil and mechanical engineering projects conducted in both the United States and Greece. His professional career has involved the analysis and design of concrete and fiber-reinforced plastic systems. In his academic career, Dr. Raftoyiannis has participated in research projects on steel structures, buckling, dynamics of structures and chaos, composite materials and finite element analysis. His credits include more than 20 scientific publications, and he has presented research work in national and international seminars and conferences.