Professor SAMPS
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Georgios Exadaktylos was born on 20th of December 1961. He has obtained his diploma of Mining & Metallurgical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in 1985. Next, in 1988 he has obtained a Master of Science Diploma in Mineral Resources Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU), USA. In the next year 1989, he has acquired the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mining Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. On 1993 he was appointed faculty member (Assistant Professor) at the Mineral Resources Engineering Department of the Technical University of Crete. Until 31/8/2021 was Professor of Rock Mechanics & Mining Engineering at the Technical University of Crete and Director of two Laboratories namely the Mining Engineering Design Laboratory and the Rock Mechanics Laboratory. On 1/9/2021 he was appointed Professor of the Department of Mechanics, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
He has published more than one hundred papers in Greek & International scientific Journals, refereed national and international conferences, and book chapters. He is also the editor together with I. Vardoulakis of a book entitled Bifurcation, Instabilities and Degradation in Geomechanics, Springer. Apart from conducting applied research in a number of national projects funded by the private quarrying and mining sectors, he was also scientific and administrative responsible in ten competitive collaborative RTD European Projects of Framework Programmes (FP’s) 4th to 7th. He has also been Project Coordinator in two European Commission collaborative RTD Projects in the areas of Rock and Fracture Mechanics, Mechanics of Structures and Rock characterization related to Protection of Cultural Heritage, and Work-Package leader referring to “Tunneling Design and Ground Characterization” in the largest European Commission IP-FP6 Project in Tunneling ever (http://www.ifb.tugraz.at/ tunconstruct/. In the frame of 5-years of TUNCONSTRUCT he has closely cooperated with Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sandvik, Herrenknecht, Hochtief, Amberg, TUGraz, RU Bochum, Leoben etc. In the year 2010 he has been also nominated as an Expert of INSPIRE EC-Directive in the Technical Committee of “Natural Risk Zones” http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/ index.cfm/pageid/2/list/30. In the period 2011÷2012 he has been appointed by European Commission as an Expert Reviewer of proposals referring to large scale CO2 storage. Also from 2012-2015 in the EU funded research project "Thales-GEOMECS" in cooperation with other three Greek research institutions (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Patras, and the Center for Research and Technology Hellas). The aim of the "Thales-Geomecs" project was to investigate the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology and its possible outcomes of a Greek-based implementation in a unifying manner, taking care of all mechanical, chemical, physical, biological and geological phenomena in order to be able to scientifically examine its value for the economy and the environment. He has also delivered lectures in 2014-2015: Operational Programme “Education and Lifelong Learning” Continuing Education Programme for updating Knowledge of University Graduates: “Modern Development in Offshore Structures”, funded by EU, NSRF and Greek government. On July 2016 he has been nominated member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.