Contact Details
- E:idokas:at:civil.duth.gr
- T:+30 25410 79678
- A:Civil Engineering Department, Polytechnic School, DUTH, Vas. Sofias 12, 67100, Xanthi Greece
Activities
Editorial Roles
- Since 2020: Editorial Board Member, Safety Science, Elsevier
- Guest Editor: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IGI Global) Special Issue On: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in the Mediterranean Countries
Committee Memberships in International Associations
- Since 2012: Member of the Publications and Academic Standards Committee of the ISCRAM association
- March 2024 – present: Member of IFIP WG5.15 - Work Group on IT in Disaster Risk Reduction
International Conference Organizer
- ESWC 2024, 11th European STAMP Workshop and Conference, Alexandroupolis, Greece, October 2-4, 2024
- ISCRAM 2023, 20th Annual Global Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Omaha, NE, USA, May 28 - May 31, 2023
- ISCRAM-Med 2017, Xanthi Greece – 18-20 October 2017
Program/Planning Committee Member of International Conferences
- 4th Panhellenic Conference on Health and Safety at Work, November 28-29, 2024, Athens Concert Hall
- Itdrr2024, 9th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, Krems an Der Donau, Austria, October 14-16, 2024
- 10th European STAMP Workshop and Conference, Gdańsk University of Technology, 29-30 September 2022
- Itdrr2022, Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 12-14 October 2022
- 7th European STAMP Workshop 2019, Helsinki Finland, September 2019
- EANN 2019, 20th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Crete Greece, 24-26 May 2019
- The 7th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Athens Greece, 15-19 October 2019
- ICSC 2017, the 2nd Cross-industry Safety Conference (ICSC) Amsterdam 1-3 November 2017
- 5th European STAMP Workshop 2017, Reykjavik Iceland, September 2017
- 4th European STAMP Workshop 2016, Zurich University of Teacher Education (PHZH), Switzerland, 13-15 September 2016
- SafeEvros2016, New Technologies at the service of Civil Protection, Alexandroupolis Greece – 22-25 June 2016
- 3rd European STAMP Workshop, The Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 4th – 6th October 2015
- 2015 STAMP Conference, MIT, Boston Ma, USA, March 23-26 2015
- 4th International ICSC Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering, Thessaloniki Greece, May 2009
Invited Talks and Seminars
- 2024: 1st Balkan Health and Safety at Work Thessaloniki Congress, March 4, 2024, Porto Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki
- 2023: TEDxSITIA – A Holistic Approach to Resilience, Sitia 10-22-2023
- 2023: GEOTEE Thrace Information Event, "Risk Management and Climate Crisis", 5-12-2023, Komotini
- 2022: 3rd Hellenic Conference on Occupational Health and Safety, 10 & 11 November, Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
- 2017: 5th Security Project, 26-27 May 2017 - Athens, Divani Caravel: 'Cooperation Between Security Professionals and Universities: Benefits and Prospects'
- 2017: 6th STAMP/STPA WORKSHOP at MIT, Boston, USA: 'Towards a STAMP-Based Safety Plans Approach for Construction Projects'
- 2017: 1st Panhellenic Conference of Students of Civil Engineering Departments: 'Accidents in Engineering Systems - Scientific Methods and Tools'
- 2017: Academy - Lifelong Learning Structure of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Region Regional District of Komotini: 'Accidents in our Life: Causes and Consequences'
- 2016: 35th Refineries Cooperation Meeting on Health and Environmental Health Issues: 'STAMP: A Systemic Approach to Accidents and its Applications to the Oil and Gas Industry'
- 2015: Information and Seminal Day for Engineers, Prefecture of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace: 'Safety Culture in Construction Works'
- 2013: 2nd STAMP/STPA WORKSHOP at MIT, Boston, USA: EWaSAP: 'An Extension of STPA for the Identification of Early Warning Signs'
- 2012: The Intel Ireland Research Conference 2012, Dublin, Ireland: 'A SaaS Based Early Warning System for Water Treatment Plant Safety'
- 2012: First STAMP/STPA WORKSHOP at MIT, Boston, USA: 'EWaSAP: An Early Warning Sign Identification Approach Based on STPA'
- 2011: ISCRAM Summer School 2011, Tilburg, The Netherlands: 'Systems Safety and Early Warning Systems'
- 2010: Irish EPA National Research Conference, Dublin Ireland: 'Developing an Early Warning System for Drinking Water Treatment Plants'
- 2010: S4 ENVISA 2010 Colloquium on Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis, Cork Ireland: 'The SCEWA Project: A Short Description'
- 2010: Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland: 'Sociotechnical Early Warning Systems'
- 2009: HSE – Irish Health Service Executive, Population Health Water Group, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin Ireland: 'Towards an Early Warning Safety Management System for Water Treatment Plants'
- 2009: IBM Innovation Centre Mulhuddart Dublin Ireland, 'Early Warning Services for Complex Socio-Technical Systems'
- 2009: IBM Innovation Centre Mulhuddart Dublin Ireland: 'Towards Development of an Early Warning Service for Water Treatment Plants'
- 2008: Tyndal Institute, Cork Ireland, 'Early Warning Systems for Water Treatment Plants: Analysis and Design Issues'
- 2007: University College Galway, Ireland: 'Knowledge Representation: A Brief Example from Solid Waste Management Operations'
- 2006: Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Cork Ireland: 'Early Warning System in Solid Waste Management Operations'
- 2005: Institut für Informatik Universität Paderborn Germany: 'Designing Web-based Expert Systems: A Case Study'
Reviewer in Journals
- Safety Science (Elsevier) - Tactical Reviewer since 2013
- Waste Management and Research (Sage) - Since 2008
- Ergonomics (Taylor & Francis)
- Artificial Intelligent Review (Springer)
- Human & Ecological Risk Assessment (Taylor & Francis)
- International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (Interscience Publishers)
- Cognition, Technology and Work (Springer)
- International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (Academic Journals)
- Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
- Sustainability (MDPI)
- Advances in Civil Engineering (Hindawi)
- Safety and Reliability (Taylor & Francis)
Research Projects
- 2020–2023: Principal Investigator/Coordinator: "Risk and Resilience Assessment Center –Prefecture of East Macedonia and Thrace -Greece." Grand Code (MIS 5047293) funded by the Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation" (NSRF 2014-2020) and co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund). Budget: 1.999.827,40€
- 2021-2023: Principal Investigator/Coordinator – Support for Cooperation and Development - SCD, Cooperation Programme "Interreg V-A Greece Bulgaria 2014-2020, Grand No. B6.3a.27, Budget: 171.098,23€
- 2008-2012: Principal Investigator/Coordinator: Supporting the Concept of Early Warning Analysis, Grand No 2007-DRP-2-S5, Irish Environmental Protection Agency, Budget: 795,000 €
- 2005-2007: Knowledge-Based System for Operational Risk Assessment of Solid Waste Management Facilities, Greek Ministry of Education, Programme PYTHAGORAS ΙΙ, In cooperation with prof. D., Ch., Panagiotakopulos, Budget: 50.000€
Life Long Learning Programs
- 2022 to present: Director of the life-long learning program "Introduction to the Process of Public Works for Engineers (Preparation of Documents - Tendering - Bidding - Supervision)"
Invention Declaration
- I.M. Dokas, F. Foping, S. Imran, J. Feehan, "A Web-Based Early Warning System For Water Treatment Plants", University College Cork, Ireland, IDF - UCC 10-52, 2010
Workshop Organiser
- October 24, 2024: Career Days, Department of Civil Engineering DUTH
- October 18, 2024: The Secrets of Resumes and Interviews, Department of Civil Engineering DUTH
- 13-14 May 2019: Two-day Seminar on "Occupational Health and Safety in Construction Sites" in cooperation with the consultant company "Management Force", Civil Engineering Department, DUTH, Xanthi, Greece
- 21 June 2016: Engineering Systems Safety. Systemic Methods and Tools, Hotel ELISSO, Xanthi, Greece
Distinctions and Awards
- 2023: Guest Speaker at TEDxSITIA – A Holistic Approach to Resilience
- 2022: Paper "Safety bounds in human-robot interaction: A survey" ranked among the 8 most cited articles in Safety Science Journal in the past 3 years
- 2019: 'Distinguished Services Award' for outstanding support to the ISCRAM Community
- 2016: Paper "Introducing RiskSOAP to communicate the distributed situation awareness of a system about safety issues" selected as a candidate for the "Liberty Mutual Award"
- 2008: Paper "Fault tree analysis and fuzzy expert systems: Early warning and emergency response of landfill operations" ranked 12th in "Top 25 hottest articles" of Environmental Modelling and Software
- 2007: Awarded the STRIVE Programme 2007 – 2013, ERC Research Fellowships Scheme by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency
- 2007: Awarded an EU Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Grant
- 2006: Received the Miltiades Empiricos Price from the Academy of Athens
- 2004: Awarded an EU Marie Curie Research Training Network Grant
- 2000: Received a prize from the Technical Chamber of Greece for being among the top 10 students graduating from the Civil Engineering Department of D.U.Th.
- 1997: Received a prize from the city of Xanthi for the student project "Sustainability Study of KTEL in Xanthi"
COST Actions Member
- 2009 – 2012: Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS)
- 2007-2008: Towards the MAturation of Information Technology USability Evaluation (MAUSE)
