Emmanuel Gdoutos is Full Member of the Academy of Athens, the most prestigious academic institute in Greece in the chair of Theoretical and Experimental Mechanics (2016).  He is member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2001), European Academy of Sciences (2008), Academia Europaea (2008), International Academy of Engineering (2010), Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (2007) & the New York Academy of Sciences (2001).

He is Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering (2009), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2010), Russian Academy of Sciences (2016) & Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (2021). Honorary member of the Italian Society of Fracture Mechanics (2004), Polish (2009) & Serbian (2011) Societies of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Nis of Serbia (2013), the Russian Academy of Sciences (2010) & DUTH (2019). Fellow of the  American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1993),  the Society for Experimental Mechanics (2004), the  European Structural Integrity Society (2008), the European Society for Experimental Mechanics (2010), the International Congress on Fracture (2009) American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012). Honorary member of the Literary Society “Parnassos” (2020).  

He served as President of the Society of Experimental Mechanics (2013-2014), the European Structural Integrity Society (2006-2010), the European Society for Experimental Mechanics (2004-2007) and of the International Congress on Fracture (2023-2027). President of the Hellenic Society of Linguistic Heritage and the Theocaris Foundation. He received many awards from professional societies all over the world. He served as President of many national and international conferences. His research interest include problems of the theory of elasticity, use of complex functions for the solution of problems of mechanics, fracture mechanics, experimental mechanics (with emphasis in the optical methods), mechanics of composite materials, sandwich structures and nanotechnology (composite nanomaterials). In 2015 the journal Meccanica devoted a special issue in his honor. He is honorary citizen of the municipality of Lesvos (Greece).

 

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2018 Blaise Pascal Medallist in Engineering