• Πτυχίο Γεωλογίας, Α.Π.Θ. (2001)
• Μεταπτυχιακό Δίπλωμα Ειδίκευσης στη Γεωφυσική, Α.Π.Θ. (2004)
• Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα στη Σεισμολογίας, Α.Π.Θ. (2010)

• Βράβευση από την Ελληνική Μαθηματική Εταιρία (Ε.Μ.Ε.) για επιτυχίες στους Πανελλήνιους διαγωνισμούς Μαθηματικών «Θαλής», «Ευκλείδης», «Αρχιμήδης». (1995, 1996)
• Υποτροφία ΙΚΥ για συμμετοχή στο πρόγραμμα ERASMUS (1998).
• Υποτροφία από την Ευρωπαική Κοινότητα για συμμετοχή σε Workshop (Trieste - Italy) (2003).
• Υποτροφία REVOIL στα πλαίσια του θεσμού των ετήσιων υποτροφιών σε πτυχιούχους ΑΕΙ για τη μεταπτυχιακή τους εργασία (2005).
• Υποτροφία ΓΓΕΤ μέσω του Προγράμματος Ενίσχυσης Ερευνητικού Δυναμικού (ΠΕΝΕΔ) (2005).
• Πιστοποίηση από το Διαβαλκανικό Ινστιτιούτο Δημόσιας Διοίκησης .
• 5 Πιστοποιήσεις από το Εθνικό Κέντρο Δημόσιας Διοίκησης και Αυτοδιοίκησης (ΕΚΔΔΑ) .

• Μελέτη της σεισμικότητας και της σεισμικής επικινδυνότητας
• Μελέτη του πεδίου των τάσεων
• Ενεργός παραμόρφωση του φλοιού
• Μηχανισμοί γένεσης σεισμών
• Σεισμοτεκτονική μελέτη του Ελληνικού χώρου
• Κατασκευή σεισμικών καταλόγων
• Ανάλυση δεδομένων για τον υπολογισμό σεισμικών παραμέτρων
• Συλλογή δεδομένων από τοπικά προσωρινά ψηφιακά δίκτυα σεισμογράφων - Συμμετοχή σε 32 Ερευνητικά Προγράμματα

• - 18 εργασίες σε επιστημονικά περιοδικά – Τόμους (ελληνικά και ξένα) - 18 εργασίες σε τόμους πρακτικών Συνεδρίων (ελληνικά και ξένα) - 26 Ανακοινώσεις σε επιστημονικά συνέδρια (σε Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό) - 5 Τεχνικές Εκθέσεις - 1 Χάρτη
• Αναγνώριση επιστημονικού έργου με περισσότερες από 450 αναφορές

Panagiotis M. Hatzidimitriou was born in Mytilene, Lesvos in 1958. He graduated from Geological department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1980 and obtained hid Ph.D. (Seismogenic sources and seismic volumes of the Aegean and surrounding area) in 1984.

He was Lecturer of Seismology (1985-1989), Assistant Professor (1989-1994) and Associate Professor (1994-present) in the Geophysical Laboratory of the same University. During 1989 he was for post-doctoral studies at the University of Southern California, USA.

His research interests include the attenuation structure of the Aegean and surrounding area, seismicity and seismotectonics, aftershock sequences, earthquake source parameters, local site effects on seismic motions and seismic hazard.

Membership:

• Hellenic Association of Geologists
• Geological Society of Greece
• Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
• Hellenic Geophysical Union
• European Mediterranean Seismological Center, EMSC, (representative of Geophysical Laboratory of AUTH)

• B.Sc. In Geology, University of Thessaloniki , Greece (1982)
• Ph.D. Thesis in Seismology, University of Thessaloniki , Greece (1985)

• Institute IRIGM, Joseph Fourier University , Grenoble , France
• School of Environmental Sciences, East Anglia University , Norwich , UK
• Seismological Institute, Academy of Sciences , Tirana , Albania
• Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Frankfurt , Germany
• Laboratory of Electronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thrace , Greece .

• Seismotectonics
• Seismic sequences.
• Time dependent seismicity
• Earthquake prediction based on seismicity and probabilistic models.
• Magnitude scales – Compilation & homogenization of earthquake catalogs
• Intermediate term earthquake prediction

• Participated in 73 projects of seismology and applied geophysics.

• Participated in 40 international and national conferences, in most of them with presentations.
• Invited speaker in 4 of them.
• Member of the Organizing Committee in 2 of them.

• Published more than 110 research papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences.
• receiving more than 2000 references (self-references excluded).
• Co-author in 1 book and 2 special volumes.

General academic-administrative activity:

• Member of several Greek and international seismological-geophysical-geological unions (AGU, EGU, SSA, etc.).
• Member of the electoral body for several geophysical and geoscientist academic positions in Greek Universities and research Institutes.
• Participation in several coordinating committees responsible for reforming and project submission of the Geology Dept.
• Responsible for development of the computing infrastructure of the Geology Dept. (computer lab, etc.).
• Member of Aristotle University committees.
• Member (former president and vice-president) of the Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki IT committee.
• Coordinator of the day-to-day operation of the Seismological Network of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, member of its advisory committee, responsible for the data acquisition and dissemination, participation in the daily/weekly earthquake analysis shifts.
• Briefing of civil agencies (governmental and local-regional authorities) and the wider public (through the mass media) in Greece regarding important seismic activity in the broader Aegean area.
• Lecturer in public schools, professional organizations, municipalities, etc. on various topics, including general Geophysics, Seismology in Greece and Seismic policy.

• B.Sc. in Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1990)
• Ph.D. in Geophysics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1994)
• B.Sc. in Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1994, realized in parallel with the PhD studies)

• Crustal and upper mantle structure (mainly tomographic) studies.
• Wave propagation modeling and simulation of strong-motion using instrumental and macroseismic data.
• Site-effect studies using earthquake and noise data, including geophysical structure modelling using noise data.
• Development and application of Applied Geophysics techniques (seismic, electromagnetic, gravity, etc.) for the study of the near surface formations.
• Active crustal deformation studies.
• Seismotectonics and seismic hazard of the broader area of Greece and studies of seismic sequences.
• Time dependent seismicity and seismic hazard on the basis of seismicity and probabilistic models.
• Study of seismic waveform characteristics and their automatic processing
• Study of volcanic seismotectonics and related volcanic phenomena

Significant Research Achievements:

• Author of ~150 papers in journals, books and conference proceedings, ~2300 references without self-citations (h-factor=26 from Scopus without self-citations).
• Participant in more than 40 conferences (chairman at several sessions of ESC, IUGG, etc.) with more than 80 presentations, including invited talks.
• Invited speaker for lectures at several other European geophysical and seismological departments.
• Author of one book on Physics of the Earth's Interior (in Greek, used as standard textbook for this topic in Greece in all Geological Dept.), 2 macroseismic atlas and 2 maps of seismic-active faults and more than 50 technical reports.
• Author of the national report for Greece for the IASPEI International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology.
• Reviewer for E.U. and ESF, and several journals. Also reviewer for a large number of special volumes and books (TransMed Atlas, Developments in Volcanology, Active Volcanoes of the World, etc.).
• Member of the organizing committee of national and international conferences (IASPEI 1997, Greek Geophysical Union 1993, Greek Geological Society 2004, Carpathian-Balkan Geological Society 2010, etc.) and organizer of the workshop "EGELADOS-Exploring the GEodynamics of subducting Lithosphere using an Amphibian Deployment Of Seismodynamics" (Thessaloniki, 2007).
• Best reviewer award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for the Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth) in 2001.
• Associate Editor of the journals Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH), Geophysical Journal of the Balkan Geophysical Society and Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences.
• Award for best paper from young geoscientist by the Greek Geological Society 1996-1997.
• Former member of the Scientific board of the WEGENER subcommission of IUGG, former member of the board of the Institute of Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK) and former member of the board of Greek Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (OASP). Gen. Secretary of the Institute of Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano (ISMOSAV) and its scientific committee. Member of the coordinating board of the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network (HUSN). Former member of the board of the Greek Geological Survey (IGME).

VISITS AND COOPERATIONS WITH INSTITUTES:

1.  Laboratory of Geophysics of the Earth’s Interior of the University of Grenoble (France)
2.  Institute of Geophysics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia (Bulgaria)
3.  Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
4.  Institute of Physics of the Earth of the University Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris (France)
5.  National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, Rome (Italy)
6. Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
7. Laboratory of Geodynamics of the University Nice–Sophia Antipolis (France)
8. Joint Research Centre, Ispra (Italy)
9. Department of Geology, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
10. Institute of Geophysics of the Shanxi Province (China)
11. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY (USA)
12. GNS Science, Lower Hutt (New Zealand)
13. Seismological Bureau of Shanghai CSB (Shanghai – China)
14. Seismological Bureau of Shaanxi Province CSB (Xian – China)
15. Seismological Bureau of Hebei Province CSB (Shijazhuang – China)
16. Analysis and Prediction Center, CSB (Beijing – China)
17. Geophysical Institute, CSB (Beijing – China)
18. Department of Geophysics, University of Bologna (Bologna – Italy)
19. Institute of Geophysics, AGH University of Science and Technology (Krakow – Poland)
20. Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province (Chengdu – China)
21. Seismological Buraeau of Tangshan (China)
22. Faculty of Physics, University of Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
23. Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw (Poland)
24. Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee(India)
25. TUBITAK Marmara Research Center, Gebze (Kocaeli – Turkey)
26. Friedrich–Schiller–Universitat Jena (Germany)
27. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
28. Centre of Intergrated Geomorphology for the Mediterranean Area (Potenza, Italy)
29. Jordan University of Amman (Jordan)
30. University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus)
31. Geological Survey of Norway (Trondheim, Norway)
32. Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Institute of Geology (Freiber, Germany)
33. Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (Freiberg, Germany)
34. China Earthquake Administration, Anhui Province (Hefei, China)
35. Universita degli studi RomaTre (Roma, Italy)

MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS:

1. Hellenic Association of Geologists
2. Geological Society of Greece
3. Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
4. Hellenic Geophysical Union
5. European Union of Geosciences
6. Seismological Society of America
7. American Geophysical Union
8. European Geophysical Society

• B. Sc. In Geology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1981)
• Ph. D. Thesis in Seismology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1984)

• Greek, English, French, and Russian

• Institute of Physics of the Earth of the University Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris (France)
• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY (USA)

1. Long–term earthquake prediction in the broader area of Greece on the basis of seismicity and probabilistic models.
2. Studies of seismic sequences
3. Seismotectonics of the broader area of Greece.
4. Fault plane solutions and stress patterns.
5. Source parameters by synthetic seismograms.
6. Time dependent seismicity by the application of the Time Predictable Model.
7. Fractal analysis of the global seismicity and the seismicity of the broader area of Greece.
8. Stress evolution by the use of Coulomb Failure Function changes.
9. Statistical Seismology.
10. Seismic hazard assessment.

Participation in National and International Committees:

• Member of the National Committee for the Estimation of Seismic Hazard in Greece .
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization of Greece (OASP) [2002-2005].
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (ITSAK) [2003-2005].
• Member of the Management Committee of the European COST Project (Action 625: 3D monitoring of Active Tectonic Structures).
• Leader of the Working Group on “Active Tectonics” of COST Action 625

Supervision of MSc theses and PhD theses Member of the:

• European Union of Geosciences
• European Geophysical Society
• Seismological Society of America
• American Geophysical Union
• Hellenic Association of Geologists
• Geological Society of Greece
• Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
• Hellenic Geophysical Union

• Simulation of strong ground motion using advanced techniques
• Rupture propagation and slip distribution of strong earthquakes
• Seismic source studies – moment tensor inversion
• Regional Tectonics in the Aegean Sea and the surrounding lands
• Crustal Deformation
• Quantification of earthquakes
• Attenuation structure of the Aegean and surrounding area
• Finite element modeling of subduction zones

Participation in Conferences:

• Presentation of papers in more than 50 conferences held in Greece and abroad, in many of those as an invited speaker and in a lot, as a member of the Organizing Committee.

MEMBER:

• Hellenic Association of Geologists
• Geological Society of Greece
• Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
• Hellenic Geophysical Union

• B. Sc. In Geology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1981)
• Ph. D. Thesis in Seismology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1988)

• Greek, English and Russian

• Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY (USA)

1. Long – term earthquake prediction in the broader area of Greece on the basis of seismicity and probabilistic models
2. Studies of seismic sequences
3. Seismotectonics of the broader area of Greece
4. Fault plane solutions and stress patterns
5. Tsunamis and tsunami hazard
6. Fractal analysis of the global seismicity and the seismicity of the broader area of Greece
7. Stress evolution by the use of Coulomb Failure Function changes
8. Statistical Seismology
9. Seismic Hazard Assessment

1. Laboratory of Geophysics of the Earth ' s Interior of the University of Grenoble ( France )
2. Institute of Geophysics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia ( Bulgaria )
3. National Institute of Geophysics of Rome ( Italy )
4. Institute of Geophysics , ETH Z u rich ( Switzerland )
5. Institute of Geophysics of the Shanxi Province ( China )
6. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University , NY ( USA )
7. Seismological Bureau of Shanghai CSB ( Shanghai – China )
8. Seismological Bureau of Shaanxi Province CSB (Xian – China )
9. Seismological Bureau of Hebei Province CSB (Shijazhuang – China )
10. Analysis and Prediction Center , CSB ( Beijing – China )
11. Geophysical Institute, CSB ( Beijing – China )
12. Department of Geophysics, University of Bologna ( Bologna – Italy )
13. Institute of Geophysics , University of Mining and Metallurgy (Krakow – Poland )
14. Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province ( Chengdu – China )
15. Seismological Bureau of Tangshan ( China )

MEMBER:

• Hellenic Association of Geologists
• Geological Society of Greece
• Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
• Hellenic Geophysical Union
• European Union of Geosciences
• Seismological Society of America
• European Geophysical Society

COOPERATIONS WITH INSTITUTES:

• Seismological Laboratory of Oceanologic Institute of Moscow
• Seismological Institute of Erevan (Armenia).
• Disaster Prevention Research Institute (University of Kyoto, Japan ).
• Geology Dep. of the American University of Beyrut (Lebanon).
• Seismological Bureau of Shaanxi Province CSB (Xian - China)
• Seismological Bureau of Hebei Province CSB (Shijazhuang - China)
• Analysis and Prediction Center, CSB (Beijing - China)
• Geophysical Institute, CSB (Beijing - China).

• B. Sc. In Geology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1981)
• Ph. D. Thesis in Seismology – University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1984)

1. Studies of seismic sequences
2. Seismotectonics of the broader area of Aegean.
3. Earthquake prediction in Greece using statistical methods
4. Fault plane solutions and stress patterns.
5. Study of parameters in the seismic focal.
6. Study of the seismic circle
7. Earthquake prediction using the Time dependent seismicity model.
8. Study of seismicity and seismic hazard
9. Accelerating seismic deformation