About
Dr Georgantzia is Teaching Fellow in Structural Engineering in the School of Engineering at University of Southampton. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Member of Women’s Engineering Society (WES). She is engaged in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and working in Infrastructure Research Group.
Her principal research interests lie in the areas of structural testing, numerical modelling and the development of design guidance for aluminium and composite aluminium-concrete structures. Considering that nowadays there is an increasing emphasis on green building construction and the fact that the aluminium alloys (aluminium is known as “green” metal) are one of the most energy-efficient and sustainable construction materials, her current research and future research plans aim to contribute proactively to the outstanding research of the Department into key societal needs around sustainability in design, construction, operation and decommissioning of urban infrastructure and civil engineering systems.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Aluminium structures
- Composite Aluminium-Concrete structures
- Steel structures
- Composite Steel-Concrete structures
- Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Steel structures
Publications
Teaching
Dr Georgantzia's approach to teaching is to convey passion and enthusiasm to students so they can achieve the best results and in-depth understanding they can.
FEEG1002 Mechanics, Structures and Materials
CENV2031 Structural Analysis
CENV2036 Structural Design
CENV3067 Structural Stability and Finite Element Analysis
CENV3015 Design 3
CENV6134 Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Steel Buildings
CENV6086 Advanced Structural Engineering
Biography
Dr Georgantzia joined the University of Southampton as Teaching Fellow in September 2022. She received her PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in December 2022. Particularly, her PhD research focused on the development and use of advanced computational and experimental techniques for structural assessment and evaluation of aluminium structures. New design methods and modifications of European design standard (Eurocode 9) were also suggested towards a more safe, accurate and thereby economically design process. She holds a first-class with distinction MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Structures with distinction from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2019. During her MSc studies she worked as a research assistant and her thesis was part of the research project Sustainable Preconstructed Innovative Module (SUPRIM), which was co-financed by the EU and Greek national funds (project code: T1EDK-03042). She earned her first-class MΕng degree with distinction in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2017. During her MEng studies she specialised in the structural engineering, and she completed them with an overall grade of 9/10. It is also noteworthy that this mark ranked her in the 17th position among 6500 graduates since the establishment of the Civil Engineering Department in 1955.
Dr Georgantzia is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2022. During the final year of her PhD studies, she worked as a Lecturer in Hugh Baird College situated in Liverpool. Her role there was to deliver part of the Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment. Through these sessions she recruited post-16 learners for continuing their studies in Higher Education providing suitable fundamental knowledge and skills.
During her PhD studies she has also served as the Post Graduate Year Representative for the School of Civil Engineering Built Environment and worked hard towards the improvement of the academic environment for all the postgraduate students in the School. She has been mentoring a group of new postgraduate researchers to settle into MPhil/PhD study and university life. For this reason, she received training through the Institute of Leadership and Management and Liverpool John Moores University Development Programme in Coaching and Mentoring. Finally, having the dual role of the Vice Chair of the ICE (NorthWest) Graduate and Student (G&S) Committee as well as the LJMU Student Representative in the ICE (NorthWest) – Merseyside Branch, she was assisting in identifying events, speakers and venues as well as promoting branch activities and regional events.