On 26 October 2021 Nikolaos Tsokanas defended his PhD thesis

On 26 October 2021 Nikolaos Tsokanas defended his PhD thesis. “The main accomplishments of Nikolaos’ thesis are twofold. The first accomplishment corresponds to establishing new methods for conducting reliable hybrid simulations, while the second concerns on advancing the frontiers of the current state-of-the-art deterministic hybrid simulation practices to account for the stochastic nature of uncertain structural systems. Therefore, the major contribution of his dissertation is to provide a high-fidelity simulation tool that can be used to apply uncertainty quantification techniques to examine the dynamic response of uncertain systems operating under uncertain conditions, with the overreaching goal of dynamic validation and calibration of models used in engineering design.”