PEER Annual Meeting 2023 Speaker Bio: Dr. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2020. She received her Ph.D. and MSc. in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and 2004 and a BSc/MSc in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece in 2003. She has received the NSF CAREER award (2013), the 2015 ASCE Arthur Casagrande Award and the 2015 ASCE Thomas Middlebrooks Award, the 2016 Chi Epsilon (XE) Outstanding Teaching Award, and the 2020 TC203 Young Research Award from the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Her research focuses on soil liquefaction, seismic slope stability, and the response of flood protection systems and soil structures under extreme loading like hurricanes and earthquakes as well as new technologies and methodologies to design, monitor and reinforce them. Updated July 2023.