Dr Antonis Zervos CivEng/NTUA PhD/NTUA FHEA
Associate Professor in Geomechanics, Deputy Head of the Infrastructure Research Group
Dr Antonis Zervos is an Associate Professor in Geomechanics within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Antonis Zervos graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, with a 5-year degree in Civil Engineering. In the same year he joined the Doctoral Programme of NTUA’s Department of Mechanics, from where he obtained a PhD in 2001. His research was sponsored by Schlumberger Cambridge Research through a research assistantship at their Cambridge facilities between 1996 and 2001. After obtaining his PhD he worked as a consultant before joining the University of Southampton in 2002.
He has served as Editorial Board member for Géotechnique (2009-2012) and Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment (2014-2017), as Vice-chair of UK’s Association for Computational Mechanics - UK-ACM, at the time called ACME (2009-2010), and as external evaluator on behalf of the Romanian National Research Council and the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Granular Matter, of the UK-ACM Executive Board, the Board of Directors of the ALERT/Geomaterials European network of geomechanics experts, and the EPSRC Peer Review College. He also serves as external evaluator for the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency.
In 2017 he was a co-recipient of ICE's Baker Medal for a paper titled "Thermo-poro-mechanical analysis of landslides: from creeping behaviour to catastrophic failure", published in Geotechnique (DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.15.LM.006). He was also co-recipient of the 2017 BGA Medal for a paper titled "A behavioural framework for fibre-reinforced gravel", also published in Geotechnique (DOI: 10.1680/jgeot.16.P.023)
His Web of Science ResearcherID record is A-8609-2008.
His ORCID ID is 0000-0002-2662-9320