Dr. Marios Panagiotou, PE is a Structural Systems Engineer at Superblock, an essential facility for nuclear operations, of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is the founder of the Online School of Earthquake Resilient Design. He was (2015-2025) the Advanced Earthquake Engineering Leader at Nabih Youssef & Associates (NYA),  and Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering (2008-2015) at UC Berkeley (UCB). Dr. Panagiotou specializes in the advanced earthquake engineering of complex concrete and steel structures, in structural systems with isolation and energy dissipation devices, as well as in soil-structure-interaction (SSI). He has extensive expertise in earthquake engineering at near-fault sites as well as in the development of nonlinear analysis methods for reinforced concrete structures.

 

At NYA, Dr. Panagiotou was decisive in NYA’s performance-based seismic design (PBSD), and resilience-based seismic design efforts for the firm’s most complex projects, mostly at near-fault sites, including reinforced concrete and steel structural systems as well as systems that use seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices. Milestones of his NYA work were the: (1) resilience-based design of the new Long Beach Civic Center; (2) enhanced seismic design of the new Scholarship Tower for the Los Angeles Coliseum; (3) seismic design of the new UCSF hospital incorporating viscous dampers; (4) plan check of the Sofi Stadium; (5) PBSD Peer Review of Neom – The Line; (6) development of fixed-base and seismic isolation concepts for high-rise core wall towers for The Rise, Cupertino; (7) resilience-based seismic design of the Potrero Yard; (8) peer reviews of PBSDs of base isolated museums and various high-rise towers along the West Coast of US.

 

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 as well as on soil-structure interaction (SSI) and characterization of near-fault ground motions. He has designed and conducted some of the largest seismic experiments, including SSI (funded by Caltrans), 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 27 journal papers and numerous 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 and of 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 framework BTM in FE-MultiPhys for RC 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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