Faculty Profiles

Konstantinos Kalfas

Assistant Professor at Ingram School of Engineering, College of Science & Engineering

Award / Honor Recipient: NSF Travel Grant/Award: Attend the 2025 Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Summer Institute for Early-Career Faculty, NSF. 2025

Award / Honor Recipient: NSF Primary Travel Award: Attend the Natural Hazards Research Summit; College Park, MD; funds provided by the NSF, NSF. 2024

Award / Honor Recipient: 1st Prize Award for the Dynamics Student Paper Competition. Title: “Estimation of the design parameters of pressurized sand dampers from experiments”., ASCE EMI. 2022
Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the SMU Lyle School of Engineering, SMU. 2022
Award / Honor Recipient: 24th Young Researchers’ Conference, Institution of Structural Engineers (24 YRC IStructE): 2nd Prize Award for the best poster presentation. Title: “Pressurized sand damper as a sustainable solution for the response modification of structures”., Institution of Structural Engineers. 2022

Award / Honor Recipient: 2nd Prize award of a paper among more than 150 contributions to be part of the 50th Anniversary booklet; the booklet was released during the Global Engineering Congress (GEC2018), London, UK, Global Engineering Congress. 2018
Award / Honor Recipient: 1st Prize Winner of the session “My Thesis in 180s” during the 40th IABSE Symposium “Tomorrow’s Megastructures”; Nantes, FR., International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). 2018