Dimitrios Terzis
dimitrios.terzis@epfl.ch +41 21 693 53 98 https://twitter.com/twiTerzis
Birth date: 10.04.1990
EPFL ENAC IIC LMS
GC D0 425 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne
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Biography
Dimitrios Terzis received his Civil Engineering diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2014, having spent a year in the ESTP, Paris as an exchange student. In 2017, he graduated with a doctoral degree (PhD) in Mechanics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). His research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 200021_140246) and a scholarship of Academic Excellence of the Swiss Federal Government (No. 2014.0276), focused on the crystallisation of calcium carbonate in soils. With his thesis, Dimitrios contributed in the fields of advanced material characterisation through microscopy and X-Ray tomography techniques, predictive modelling and full-scale geotechnical applications. He’s the co-inventor of three EPFL patents and the author of more than 10 peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 6 (Scopus, as of 08/2020). He is the recipient of grants and awards which sum up to over CHF 1 Mn, among which an EPFL Innogrant Fellowship (2018), a Swiss National Science foundation BRIDGE grant (2019) and an Innobooster grant from the Gebert rüf Stiftung. Since 2019 he is the principal lecturer and responsible for the course Innovation for construction and the environment which is part of EPFL's Master's program in Civil Engineering.Mission
Teaching, Research, Innovation, Technology TransferPublications
Infoscience publications
A bio-chemo-hydro-mechanical model of transport, strength and deformation for bio-cementation applications
Acta Geotechnica. 2024-01-18. DOI : 10.1007/s11440-023-02172-0.Mechanics, Modeling, and Upscaling of Biocemented Soils: A Review of Breakthroughs and Challenges
International Journal Of Geomechanics. 2023-09-01. DOI : 10.1061/IJGNAI.GMENG-8446.Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment
Soils And Foundations. 2023-08-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.sandf.2023.1013320038-0806.Influence of pore-scale heterogeneity on the precipitation patterns in Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation (MICP)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9919.Microfluidic study in a meter-long reactive path reveals how the medium’s structural heterogeneity shapes MICP-induced biocementation
Scientific Reports. 2022-11-15. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-24124-6.Characterizing the Deformation Evolution with Stress and Time of Biocemented Sands
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 2022-07-20. DOI : 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002871.Mechanical performance and upscaling of bio-improved soils
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9990.Controlling the calcium carbonate microstructure of engineered living building materials
Journal Of Materials Chemistry A. 2021-10-29. DOI : 10.1039/d1ta03990c.Method and system for producing a carbonate-containing species-rich, nitrogen-containing species-free solution
US2023203374 ; EP4136245 ; CN115552024 ; WO2021234434 . 2021.Monitoring innovation metrics in construction and civil engineering: Trends, drivers and laggards
Developments in the Built Environment. 2021-12-02. DOI : 10.1016/j.dibe.2021.100064.Benefits and drawbacks of applied direct currents for soil improvement via carbonate mineralization
2020-10-16. 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020), Lisboa, Portugal, October 19-21, 2020. DOI : 10.1051/e3sconf/202019505007.Direct currents stimulate carbonate mineralization for soil improvement under various chemical conditions
Scientific Reports. 2020-10-12. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-73926-z.Microfluidic-Based Study on the Activation and Evolution of Calcite Bio-Mineralization for Geotechnical Applications
2020-02-21. Geo-Congress on Biogeotechnics, Minneapolis, MN, US, February 25-28. p. 74-82. DOI : 10.1061/9780784482834.009.System and method for ground consolidation
US11879227 ; EP3976886 ; EP3976886 ; US2022228340 ; EP3976886 ; WO2020240263 . 2020.A Full-Scale Application of Slope Stabilization via Calcite Bio-Mineralization Followed by Long-Term GIS Surveillance
2020. Geo-Congress 2020, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, February 25-28, 2020. p. 65-73. DOI : 10.1061/9780784482834.008.A decade of progress and turning points in the understanding of bio-improved soils: A review
Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 2019-03-04. DOI : 10.1016/j.gete.2019.03.001.Le biomimétisme (2/5): un biociment éco-responsable grâce au génie d’une bactérie
2019-03-19.Cell-free soil bio-cementation with strength, dilatancy and fabric characterization
Acta Geotechnica. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s11440-019-00764-3.GEOTEXTILE
EPFL: BR112019024734 ; AU2017417126 ; BR112019024734 ; ES2898772 ; JP6998071 ; CN110770400 ; EP3631094 ; US10895054 ; JP2020528975 ; BR112019024734 ; US2020157757 ; EP3631094 ; CN110770400 ; AU2017417126 ; WO2018219431 . 2018-12-06.3-D micro-architecture and mechanical response of soil cemented via microbial-induced calcite precipitation
Scientific Reports. 2018. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-19895-w.Kinetics, Mechanics and Micro-structure of Bio-cemented Soils
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8147.Quantitative analysis of the crystalline bond lattice of bio-improved soils using micro-computed tomography
2017. 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (Seoul), Seoul, South Korea, September 17-22, 2017.On the Application of Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation for Soils: A Multiscale Study
Advances in Laboratory Testing and Modelling of Soils and Shales (ATMSS). ATMSS 2017. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham; Springer, Cham, 2017. p. 388-394.Fabric characteristics and mechanical response to bio-improved sand to various treatment conditions
Geotechnique Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1680/jgele.15.00134.Effect of Microbially Induced Calcite Precipitation on soil thermal conductivity
Geotechnique Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1680/jgele.15.00125.Effect of treatment on the microstructural characteristics of bio-improved sand
2015. 6th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 15-18, 2015. p. 970-977. DOI : 10.3233/978-1-61499-601-9-970.Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Sahlab Ziad Nabil Elsayed Mohamed,Past EPFL PhD Students
Elmaloglou Ariadni , Harran Ray ,Courses
Innovation for construction and the environment
The course delves into how innovation in construction, seen as an engineering process, progresses through steps and stages. It focuses on three main areas: (1) introducing new materials, (2) integrating digital systems, and (3) measuring sustainability and environmental impact. We'll explore how