Marios Panagiotou (PhD, PE) is the Advanced Earthquake Engineering Leader at Nabih Youssef & Associates in Los Angeles, founder of Adstran and of the Online School of Earthquake Resilient Design. Dr. Panagiotou joined NYA in 2015, after serving seven years as an Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering at UC Berkeley (UCB). While at NYA, Dr. Panagiotou has been decisive in NYA’s performance-based seismic design (PBSD), and resilience-based seismic design efforts for the firm’s most complex and technically challenging projects including reinforced concrete and steel structural systems as well as advanced systems that use seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices.  He also specializes in nonlinear dynamic seismic analysis of large and complex structures. Milestones of his work include the: (a) earthquake-resilient design, first of its kind using concrete core walls for medium-rise construction, of the new Long Beach Civic Center; (b) enhanced seismic design using BRB frames for the renovation of the Los Angeles Coliseum; (c) development of fixed-base and seismic isolation concepts for high-rise core wall towers for the Vallco Town Center; (d) seismic design of the new UCSF hospital using steel frames with viscous dampers; (e) resilience-based seismic design of the Potrero Yard; (f) plan check of the Sofi Stadium; (g) peer reviews of base isolated museums and various PBSD high-rise RC towers along the Western Coast of U.S.

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During his academic tenure at UCB, he conducted computational and experimental research of concrete and earthquake resilient buildings and bridges that use seismic isolation and low-damage rocking components. He has designed and conducted some of the largest seismic experiments ever built worldwide. As part of his PhD studies at UC San Diego, he performed the seismic analysis, design, and shake-table test of a full-scale 7-story building which received the 2012 ASCE Alfred Noble Prize. He has published 26 journal papers, and over 70 conference papers and technical reports. He has taught graduate courses at UCB, UCLA, and USC. He was a member of the NIST-FEMA Functional Recovery Project and current member of 2026 NEHRP PUC IT-5 as well as ASCE/SEI 7-28 seismic subcommittee. His work is cited in ASCE 7, ASCE 41, and LATBSDC. He is a co-developer of the seismic analysis computational framework BTM in FE-MultiPhys for reinforced concrete structures as well as of the software BTM Component. He is also author of the Online Course on Earthquake Resilient Buildings.

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