Dimitrios Terzis
Nation/Region-nominated Member
Switzerland
Name: Dimitrios Terzis
Position: Research and Teaching Associate, EPFL; Member supervisory board, EPFL; Leaders4Impact, Board Member, Géotechnique Suisse
Birthdate: April 1990
Email: dimitrios.terzis@
Dimitrios Terzis is a Research and Teaching Associate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His research spans geomechanics, materials science, biotechnology and multiphysical modelling. Between 2023 and 2026 he secured competitive funding as Principal Investigator through the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Innovation Agency, worth a combined CHF 3.3 million, directing an interdisciplinary team of six researchers to advance biomineralization toward material design and industrial production.
Through international collaborations and PhD co-supervision, he has investigated the mechanical behaviour of biocemented soils and the influence of pore-scale heterogeneity on mineralization in geomaterials. He was invited to contribute to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and received the 2024 Rodolphe & Renée Haenny Foundation Award and the 2018 ENAC Doctoral Research Award. His next invited keynote lecture will be at DFI Grout 2027.
He serves on the editorial boards of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment and Scientific Reports, and on the governing board of the Swiss Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. He has also served on the scientific committees of major international geotechnical conferences, including ICSMGE 2026 (Vienna) and ECSMGE 2024 (Lisbon).