DAN M. FRANGOPOL
A.  PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION 
Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, Civil Engineering, Dipl-Ing., 1969.
University of Liege, Belgium, Structural  Engineering, Ph.D.  in Applied Sciences, 1976.

B. APPOINTMENTS
1988 (Aug) -present	Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder.
1998 (June-Aug)	Visiting Prof., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1998 (April-May)	Visiting Researcher, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
1997 (June-July)	Visiting Prof., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1995 (May-June)	Visiting Professor, University of Trento,  Trento, Italy.
1994 (July-Aug)	Visiting Scholar, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
1991 (May)	Visiting Research Prof., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
1991 (June, July) and 1992 (June) 	Visiting Senior Scientist, Fellow of Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Univ. of Trondheim (NTH), Trondheim, Norway.
1989 (Oct)	Visiting Professor, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan.
1989 (June-July)	Visiting Prof., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1983 (Mar) - 1988 (July) 	Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder.
1979 (Sept) - 1983 (March)	Project Engineer, A. LIPSKI Consulting Engineers, Brussels, Belgium.
1977 (Jan) - 1979 (Aug) 	Associate Professor, Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
1976 (Sept)	Visiting Research Associate, LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal.
1974 (Jan) - 1976 (Dec)	Research Structural Engineer, University of Liege, Belgium.
1969 (Sept) - 1974 (Jan) 	Assistant Professor, Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.

C. PUBLICATIONS
(i) Publications most closely related to the proposed project
Frangopol, D.M., Kong, J.S., and Gharaibeh, E.S. (2001). “Reliability-based life-cycle management of highway bridges,” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE,  15(1), 27-34.
Frangopol, D.M. (2000). “Advances in life-cycle reliability-based technology for design and maintenance of structural systems,” Chapter 16 in Computational Mechanics for the Twenty-First Century, B.H.V. Topping, ed., Saxe-Coburg Publ.,  Edinburgh, 311-328.
Estes, A.C., and Frangopol, D.M. (1999). “Repair optimization of highway bridges using system reliability approach,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 125(7), 766-775.
Frangopol, D.M. (1998). “Probabilistic structural optimization,” Progress in Structural Engineering and Materials, 1(2), 223-230.
Frangopol, D.M., and Moses, F. (1994).  "Reliability-based structural optimization," Chapter 13 in Advances in Design Optimization, H. Adeli, ed., Chapman & Hall, London, 492-570.

(ii) Other significant publications
Bazant, Z.P., and Frangopol, D.M. (2002). “Size effect hidden in excessive dead load factor,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE , 128 (1), 80-86.
Imai, K., and Frangopol, D.M. (2001). “Reliability-based assessment of suspension bridges: Application to the Innoshima bridge,” Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 6(6), 398-411.
Imai, K., and Frangopol, D.M. (2000). “Response prediction of geometrically nonlinear structures,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 126(11), 1348-1355. 
Frangopol, D.M., Gharaibeh, E.S., Kong, J.S., and Miyake, M. (2000). “Optimal network-level bridge maintenance planning based on minimum expected cost,” Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Transportation Research Record, 1696(2), National Academy Press, 26-33.
Teigen, J.G., Frangopol, D.M., Sture, S., and Felippa, C.A. (1991). “Probabilistic FEM for Nonlinear Concrete Structures. I: Theory,” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 117(9), 2674-2689.

D. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Contributions to providing a probabilistic framework for incorporation of new information into existing bridge management systems using Bayesian updating, recognized by the 2001 ASCE “J. James R. Croes  Medal”.
Contributions to the integration of lifetime system reliability and life-cycle cost through optimization, recognized by the 2001 “Research Prize in the area of System Reliability and Optimization” of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR).
Contributions to advancements in high performance concrete technology for bridges, recognized by the 1998 FHWA “Award of Appreciation”.
Development of innovative teaching in probabilistic methods and optimization in structural engineering, recognized by the 1996 “Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award” of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Service to the engineering community as president and co-founder of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and Past-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the ASCE  Structural Engineering Institute,  Technical Activities Division.

E. COLLABORATORS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS
(i) Collaborators
Amadei, B., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Augusti, G., Univ. of  Rome "La Sapienza", Italy; Bazant, Z.P., Northwestern Univ.; Bond, L.J., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Casas, J. R., Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain; Ciampoli, M., Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy; Das, P.C., Highways Agency, UK (Retired); Furuta, H., Kansai Univ., Japan; Ghosn, M., City College of New York; Hearn, G., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Maute, K., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Nowak, A., Univ. of Michigan ; Raj, R.,Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Shing, B., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Spacone, E., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Thoft-Christensen, P., Aalborg Univ., Denmark; Willam, K., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Xi, Y., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

(ii) Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Massonett, Ch.,  Univ. of Liege, Belgium (deceased), Ferry-Borges, J., LNEC, Portugal (deceased)

(iii) Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor (over the last five years)
Almeida, A., unknown address; Enright, M.P., Southwest  Research  Institute ; Estes, A.C., West Point Military Academy; Gharaibeh, E.S., Mutah University, Jordan; Imai, K., Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority, Japan; Kepler, W.F., U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Kong, J., Univ. of Colorado at Boulder; Noh, J., HNTB Consultants, New York; Hanai, T., Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Authority, Japan; Miyake, M., Expressway Research Institute; Dean, F., Wiss Janney Elstner, Wheat Ridge, Colorado; Kim, H., Seoul National University, Korea; Nakamura, H., Yamaguchi University, Japan; Biondini, F., Politecnico of Milan, Italy.; Recek, S., French Institute of Advanced Mechanics, IFMA, France; Shigeyuki, M., Anan National College of Technology ; Takada, T., University of Tokyo.

Total number of graduate students advised: 64 (25 Ph.D. and 39 M.S.) 
Total number of postdoctoral scholars sponsored: 7