Ioannis Vayas reaches 60
Prof. Dr.-Ing Dr. h.c. Ioannis Vayas, professor for steel structures at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, celebrated his 60th birthday on 26 October 2013.
Prof. Vayas is an outstanding researcher and an excellent engineer. He has always been able to combine these two fields in the best possible way. As researcher he is always looking for problems that are relevant for the engineering practice and as engineer he successfully applies new ideas and the knowledge coming from research work. As design engineer he has been invol - ved in the design of residential, office and industrial buildings, composite bridges, towers, masts and other structu - res. He has employed all his experience from the research and engineering work in a number of books published in Greek, German and English.