He left the life the seismologistResearch Manager of ICAK Research Unit of the Anti -Seismic Planning & Protection Organization (OASP) Christos Papaioannou.
“The Anti -Seismic Planning & Protection Organization with great sadness has been informed of Christos Papaioannou’s expertise. Honoring his offer and memory to the Organization, he decided to express his warm condolences to his relatives, to deposit a wreath at his funeral, to deposit a sum of money, to attend a delegation of the Organization in the exodus, “he said in a resolution on his website.
“Christos (Christakis, as my father used to say), has been working for more than 25 years in ISAK and more than 10 years ago at the Geophysics Employment of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, being one of the main founders of modern research in the seismic danger and historical seismology.” Professor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Kostas Papazachos, announcing that the funeral sequence and burial of Christos Papaioannou will be held at the Lord’s Resurrection Cemeteries in Thermi on Friday, May 2 at 10:30.
Christos Papaioannou was born in Thessaloniki 1958. Graduate of the AUTH Geological Department. Holder of a doctorate from the Department of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He did postdoctoral studies: at ICTP Trieste, LGIT Grenoble, Risk Engineering (USA), Catholic University (USA). Imgv (rome, it). Bodosaki Foundation Fellowship (1982-1984. He visited seismological institutes in Europe, USA and Asia.
He has worked at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1988-1995) and since 1995 as a researcher at the Institute of Seismology & Earthquake Constructions (ITSAK) in Thessaloniki, holding a Research Director since 2010.
His main scientific interests were in the field of “Seismology – Technical Seismology”, namely in the fields: Seismic danger, seismic seismic studies & earthquake, seismicity and probable long -term earthquake prognosis, influence of local territories, Historical Seismology.
He wrote either autonomously or in collaboration with 100 scientific work and 4 editions with 1980 references. He participated in 99 international and national conferences and in the organization 15 of them. He had participated in the work of the field of strong earthquakes in Greece and Cyprus.