Paul G. Marinos
marinos@central.ntua.gr
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AT THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment
INDEPENDENT CONSULTING ENGINEER
Dr Paul Marinos received a Mining Engineering degree from the School of Mines of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1966, a postgraduate degree in Applied Geology from the University of Grenoble, France, and his Doctorate in Engineering Geology from the same University in 1969. He worked for French and Greek design and construction companies until 1977 and then was elected as Professor at Democritus University in Northern Greece. Since 1988 Dr Marinos has been Professor of Engineering Geology in the School of Civil Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens and has served as head of the Geotechnical Section of the School for several years. From 2001 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2008 he was the Director of a Graduate Course in Tunneling and Underground Construction. He was a visiting Professor in the Geology Department of the University of Grenoble (1987) and of the School of Mines in Paris (2003). He is a doctor honoris causa of the Democritus University of Thrace.
Dr Marinos is a member of AEG and GSA and fellow of the Geological Society of London. He is a past President of the International Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG), Past president of the Geological Society of Greece, past president of the Greek Tunnelling Society and honorary member of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).
Dr Paul Marinos has received several awards, including the Hans Cloos medal of IAEG, and the Andre Dumont medal of the Geological Society of Belgium. He was selected for the presentation of named lectures, including the 6th Glossop Lecture in London (2002), the 19th Rocha Lecture in Lisbon (2002), the 33rd Cross Canada Lectures Tour (2005), the Rock Mechanics annual Lecture in Madrid (2006), an invited lecture tour in 5 major cities in Australia by the Australian Geomechanics Society and as the 2010 Jahns distinguished Lecturer of the Geological Society of America and the Association of Engineering Geologists. In 2013 he presented by invitation workshops in tunneling and dam geology in 6 countries in SE Asia. In 2013 he was awarded by the French Republic as “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques”
Dr Marinos and his team conduct research on a variety of applications of geology to engineering, mainly rock mass characterization, weak rock properties and behavior, karstic terrain, with special emphasis to engineering design and construction of tunnels and underground works. His work also covers landslides and dam geology. His other significant interest is the protection of historic monuments and archeological sites. Dr Marinos has authored or co-authored over 300 papers in journals or major conference proceedings. He was a key or invited lecturer in more than 50 conferences or special events.
He has given lectures to University Courses or Workshops, among them the University of California Berkeley, MIT, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Univ of Texas Austin, Purdue University, to the ASCE in USA, at the Federal Technical University (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Polytecnico of Turin, Italy, the University of Durham, U.K., the University of Coimbra, Portugal, the University of Kobe, Japan, the Black Sea University Romania, the Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece, the Griffiths University, Australia. In 2013 he presented training courses for tunneling and dams in Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
He has edited proceedings published by international publishers. Dr Marinos is editor in chief of the journal “Geotechnical and Geological Engineering” and also a member of the Editorial Board of a number of prominent journals as “Engineering Geology”, “Bulletin of the International Association of Geology”, Landslides”, “Environmental Geology”, “Rock Mechanics” and from 2009 “Environmental and Engineering Geosciences”.
Dr Paul Marinos has extensive industrial experience having served as consultant, independent reviewer and member of consulting boards or panel of experts on major civil engineering works and water resources projects in Albania, Burundi, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, France, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Laos, Rwanda, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Zambia.
