Professor
Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics

• t.onoufrioucut.ac.cy
• Tel.: +357 25 00 2547

Toula Onoufriou is a Professor in the department of Civil Engineering. She is a top graduate of the Civil Engineering Department (BEng, First Class Honours) of City University London, UK) and she was awarded the Renie Prize. She has a PhD in offshore structures and DIC in Structural Engineering from Imperial College London (London, UK). She joined the offshore oil industry and worked as Senior Consultant and Deputy Head of the Analysis and Development Department of Brown & Root. She played a leading role in developing and establishing the department and lead several projects providing services to external clients and to Brown&Root worldwide. In 1995 she joined the University of Surrey as Reader in Structural Engineering and served as Director of Research for the Civil Engineering Department. She established and led the Infrastructure Reliability and Management Research Centre IRMAC at the University of Surrey. She has served as a member of various national and international committees on structural safety and reliability and she is the author of several publications in the se areas. She was awarded the Stanley Gray Award by the Institute of Marine Engineers UK for the best paper in Marine Technology. Her research activities focus in the areas of advanced structural analyses and risk and reliability techniques as applied in design, assessment and whole life management optimisation of offshore structures and bridges.