Dr. Andreas CHRISTOFE

Education: Andreas Christofi holds a BSc/MSc degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (1996). During his studies as well as his dissertation work, he was granted a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y). He is a member of the Remote Sensing and Geo-Environment Lab (ERATOSTHENES Research Centre) of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, and is currently a PhD candidate in the field of corrosion and durability of reinforced concrete using remote sensing and GIS technologies.

Professional background: After graduating, he was employed by Athinodorou Super Beton Ltd (1997-2008) as chief civil engineer in the field of design, production and quality control of ready-mix concrete. During his employment, he focused on importing and introducing new technologies for ready-mix concrete to improve the use of raw materials and enhance production capabilities. He is a licensed contractor from the Council for the Registration and Control of Contractors in Cyprus since 2008 and he worked as a general manager in R&A Constructions Ltd dealing with large infrastructure projects. He had also worked as a senior consultant in the areas of Crisis and Disaster management as well as in Seismic Design of large infrastructure projects. In 2012- 2013, he was employed in the Department of Secondary Technical and Vocational Education of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and he was teaching several courses in civil and structural engineering.

Research: Since 2013, Andreas has joined CUT, and he participated in many research projects. Some of them are the Anagennisis project funded by the EU’s FP7 programme in the field of Innovative Reuse of All Tyre Components in Concrete and the STEELCOR project funded by EC structural funds, which dealt with the corrosion in concrete steel reinforcement.  He currently participates in the PVrosion Integrated Project funded by the Research Promotion Foundation in the field of accelerated corrosion blind spots Inherent to photovoltaic Systems. Finally, Andreas applied for IP advice through the IPBooster-META group for developing a patent, and he is in process of obtaining stage 3 (Comprehensive IP evaluation/ due diligence). The proposed technology is an efficient and low-cost system that identifies and quantifies corrosion on concrete structures.

Selected publications:

1. Neocleous, K., Christofe, A., Agapiou, A., Evagorou, E., Themistocleous, K., and Hadjimitsis, D.G.: Digital mapping of corrosion risk in coastal urban areas using remote sensing and structural condition assessment: case study in Cyprus, Open GeoSciences, 8, 662-674, https://doi.org/10.1515/geo-2016-0063, 2016
2. Abdulaziz Alsaif, Reyes Garcia, Fabio P Figueiredo, Kyriacos Neocleous, Andreas Christofe, Maurizio Guadagnini, Kypros Pilakoutas , Fatigue performance of flexible steel fibre reinforced rubberised concrete pavements, Elsevier, Engineering Structures, 193, 170-183, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.05.040, 2019
3. Christofe A., Neocleous K., Thomaida P., Kkolos A., Hadjimitsis D., Self-compacting concrete reinforced with tyre recycled steel fibres, Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Construction Materials for Sustainable Future, Zadar, Croatia (19 – 21 April 2017), ISBN: 978-953-8168-04-8, pp 927-933
4. Renos A Votsis, Elia A Tantele, Nicholas Kyriakides, Andreas Christofe, Christis Z Crysostomou, Framework for an integrated system for enhancing the energy efficiency and structural performance of buildings, Proc. SPIE 10773, Sixth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2018), 107731W (6 August 2018); https://doi.org/10.117/12.2501951.
5. Christofe A., Danezis C., Hadjimitsis D., ASSESSING AGING IN REINFORCED CONCRETE USING NOVEL REMOTE SENING TECHNIQUES, Proceedings of the Third European and Mediterranean Structural Engineering and Construction Conference Limassol, Cyprus, August 3-8, 2020., https://doi.org/10.14455/ISEC.res.2020.7(1).MAT-32.