Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou

Name: Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou 

Academic Division: Civil Engineering

Research Group: Construction Engineering – Digital Roads  

Email: gh444@cam.ac.uk 

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OYiao20AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Georgios-Hadjidemetriou    

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgios-hadjidemetriou-02254171/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeorgiosHadjid1    

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6368-7976 

Research Interests

Georgios' research interests lie in applying data-science to infrastructure management. His interdisciplinary approach integrates methods and approaches from: construction and infrastructure management, data science and artificial intelligence, sustainability and resilience, and systems science. 

Strategic Themes

Transport and Urban Infrastructure: Green Transport; Future Cities 

Complex, Resilient and Intelligent Systems: Management for Resilience; Sensors 

Research Project

Digital Roads of the Future Initiative. The initiative is a University of Cambridge-industrial collaboration exploring how digital twins, smart materials, data science, and robotics can work together to develop a connected physical and digital road infrastructure system. Georgios is a lead for the Data Science aspect of the initiative. 

Biography

Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou is a Senior Research Associate (Research Assistant Professor) at the Division of Civil Engineering of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is leading the Data Science team in the Digital Roads of the Future (DRF) initiative. Previously, he was a Research Associate in Infrastructure Resilience and Asset Management in the Institute for Manufacturing, where he was leading and coordinating all tasks assigned to the University of Cambridge for the EU-funded research project “SAFEWAY - GIS-based infrastructure management system for optimised response to extreme events on terrestrial transport networks”. 

Georgios has received a MEng in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc, with distinction, in Project and Enterprise Management from University College London (UCL), and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Cyprus, in collaboration with Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge. He has, to date, authored 30 book chapters, journal and conference publications. He is a topic editor in the Sustainability journal. He has received multiple grants, scholarships and awards, including the “2020 IfM PostDoctoral Award for Research Excellence” and the “Marie Curie Scholarship - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme”.