Dr Odysseus Galanis

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8056-3388
Scopus Author Identifier: 6505946011
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Personal information

Full name: Odysseus Galanis
Date of birth: 1974/12/04
Place of birth: Thessaloniki, Greece
Nationality: Greek

Contact information

Telephone: +30 23109 9 1421, +30 6973058155
e-mail: ogalanis [at] geo [dot] auth [dot] gr
Skype: odysseus.galanis

Education

2001/12 – 2010/06: PhD in Seismology, A.U.Th.

The title of my Doctoral Dissertation was "Contribution to the development and implementation of algorithms for earthquake location and seismic tomography" and my supervisor was C. Papazachos, Professor of Physics of Lithosphere, Seismology & Applied Geophysics with A.U.Th. I received the research grant "Heraclitus" from the Operational Programme for Education and Initial Vocational Training from 2002/11/8 to 2005/5/7.

1998/10 – 2000/12: MSc in Geophysics, School of Geology, A.U.Th.

The title of my Master's Thesis was "Probabilistic determination of the seismicity of the areas of Mexico, Central and South America with the Bayes method". My supervisor was Theodoros Tsapanos, Professor of Seismology with A.U.Th. I was awarded an MSc in Geophysics with grade 8.75/10 (ECTS: A, U.S.: A)

1992/10 – 1998/03: BSc in Geology, School of Geology, A.U.Th.

My grade was 7.12/10 (ECTS: B, U.S.: B). During March-May 1996 I visited the Hans Ramberg Tectonic Laboratory, Department of Geodynamics and Tectonics, Uppsala University, Sweden, under the Erasmus exchange program.

Professional experience

2000 - present day: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Seismological Station

2016-present day (Laboratory Teaching Staff) and 2006-2016 (Private Law Open-ended Contract Staff):

My main duties, apart from teaching, scientific-research work and administrative tasks, are: Configuration, maintenance and operation of systems for real-time data exchange between the seismological network of the Department of Geophysics of A.U.Th. and our domestic and international partners. Configuration, maintenance and operation of systems for real-time automatic earthquake location and earthquake magnitude estimation. Configuration, maintenance and operation of systems for automatic dissemination of SMS and e-mail messages with information on current seismicity to selected recipients. Participation in 12h analyst shifts and weekly duty seismologist shifts at the Seismological Station. This includes: Determination of earthquake locations and magnitudes, in cooperation with the Monthly Seismicity Bulletin team. Briefing the Authorities, the Press and citizens on seismicity, in the framework of the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network. Basic quality control of the seismological network and the data collection and processing systems. 24h stand-by and determination of earthquake locations and magnitudes in cases of occurrence of felt earthquakes during days and times not covered by the 12h shifts. Participation in guided tours of the Seismological Station for school and university students as well as other visitors, and in other public outreach activities for the Seismological Station, the School of Geology and A.U.Th.

2000-2006 (research associate):

As a research associate I participated in research projects, in assisting the teaching of exercises and laboratory courses for undergraduate students of the School of Geology and in the 12h and weekly shifts at the Seismological Station.

2012 - 2016: Orfeus Data Center, KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands

Seismologist - Developer:

I was responsible for the daily operations of the Data Center, such as the configuration, maintenance and operation of the data collection system, in cooperation with the member organizations of Orfeus (60 - 70 seismological networks at the time, mostly in Europe and the surrounding areas). I was also responsible for the development, maintenance and operation of web services for providing seismological data. I participated as a representative of the Orfeus Data Center in technical meetings with seismologists and developers from member organizations of Orfeus.

Publications

• Galanis, O., Probabilistic determination of the seismicity of the areas of Mexico, Central and South America with the Bayes method, MSc Thesis, School of Geology, A.U.Th., Thessaloniki, Greece, 2000, 97p. (in Greek)
• Savvaidis, A., Papazachos, C., Soupios, P., Galanis, O., Grammalidis, N., Saragiotis, Ch., Hadjileondiadis, L. and Panas, S., Implementation of Additional Seismological Software for the Determination of Earthquake Parameters Based on MatSeis and an Automatic Phase-detector Algorithm, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 73, No 1, January/February 2002
• Galanis, O.C., Tsapanos, T.M., Papadopoulos G.A. and Kiratzi, A.A., Bayesian extreme values distribution for seismicity parameters assessment in South America, Journal of the Balkan Geophysical Society, vol. 5, No 3, p. 77-86, August 2002
• Tsapanos T.M., Galanis, O.C., Koravos, G.C and Musson R.M.W., A Method for Bayesian Estimation of the Probability of the Local Intensity for some Cities in Japan, Annals of Geophysics, vol. 45, No 5, p.657-671, October 2002
• Tsapanos T.M., Papadopoulos, G.A. and Galanis, O.C., Time Independent Seismic Hazard Analysis of Greece deduced from Bayesian Statistics, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 3, No 1, p. 129-134, 2003
• Tsapanos, T.M. and Galanis, O.C., A Probabilistic Estimation of Strong Earthquakes' Occurrence in Aeghion Area, Central Greece, Earthquake Research in China, vol. 17, No 3, p. 286-296, 2003
• Kiratzi, A., Sokos, E., Ganas, A., Tselentis, A., Benetatos, C., Roumelioti, Z., Serpetsidaki, A., Andriopoulos, G., Galanis O., Petrou, P., The April 2007 earthquake swarm near Lake Trichonis and implications for active tectonics in western Greece, Tectonophysics 452, p. 51-65, 2008
• Galanis, O., Contribution to the development and implementation of algorithms for earthquake location and seismic tomography, PhD Thesis, School of Geology, A.U.Th., Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010, 317p. (in Greek)
• Cauzzi, C., Sleeman, R., Clinton, J., Ballesta, J.D., Galanis, O. and Kästli, P., Introducing the European Rapid Raw Strong-Motion Database, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 87, No 4, July/August 2016
• Evangelidis, C.P., Triantafyllis, N., Samios, M., Boukouras, K., Kontakos, K., Ktenidou, O.-J., Fountoulakis, I., Kalogeras, I., Melis, N.S., Galanis, O., Papazachos, C.B., Hatzidimitriou, P., Scordilis, E., Sokos, E., Paraskevopoulos, P., Serpetsidaki, A., Kaviris, G., Kapetanidis, V., Papadimitriou, P., Voulgaris, N., Kassaras, I., Chatzopoulos, G., Makris, I., Vallianatos, F., Kostantinidou, K., Papaioannou, C., Theodoulidis, N., Margaris, B., Pilidou, S., Dimitriadis, I., Iosif, P., Manakou, M., Roumelioti, Z., Pitilakis, K., Riga, E., Drakatos, G., Kiratzi, A. and Tselentis, G.-A., Seismic Waveform Data from Greece and Cyprus: Integration, Archival, and Open Access, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 92, No 3, May 2021
• Karakostas, V., Papazachos, C., Papadimitriou, E., Foumelis, M., Kiratzi, A., Pikridas, C., Kostoglou, A., Kkallas, C., Chatzis, N., Bitharis, S., Chatzipetros, A., Fotiou, A., Ventouzi, C., Karagianni, E., Bonatis, P., Kourouklas, C., Paradisopoulou, P., Scordilis, E., Vamvakaris, D., Grendas, I., Kementzetzidou, D., Panou, A., Karakaisis, G., Karagianni, I., Hatzidimitriou, P., Galanis, O., The March 2021 Tyrnavos, central Greece, doublet (Μw6. 3 and Mw6. 0): Aftershock relocation, faulting details, coseismic slip and deformation, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, vol. 58, p. 131-178, August 24, 2021
• Papadimitriou, E., Karakostas, V., Papazachos, C., Foumelis, M., Kiratzi, A., Pikridas, C., Bonatis, P., Kostoglou, A., Kourouklas, C., Scordilis, E., Bitharis, S., Paradisopoulou, P., Panou, A., Galanis, O., Karagianni, E., Vamvakaris, D., Karagianni, I., Kkallas, C., Chatzis, N., Chatzipetros, A., Fotiou, A., Ventouzi, C., Grendas, I., Kementzetzidou, D., Karakaisis, G., Hatzidimitriou, P., The seismogenic structure of March 2021 Tyrnavos (central Greece) doublet (Μw6.3 and Mw6.0), constrained by aftershock locations and geodetic data, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 235, issue 1, p. 644-689, October 2023

Conference Presentations

• Galanis, O.C., Tsapanos, T.M., Papadopoulos G.A. and Kiratzi, A.A., An Alternative Bayesian Statistics for Probabilistic Earthquake Prediction in Mexico, Central and South America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, Vol. XXIV/4, 1485-1491, Proceedings of the 9th International Congress, Athens, September 2001
• Tsapanos, T.M., Galanis, O.C., Mavridou, S.D. and Helmi, M.P., Bayesian probabilities for occurrence of large Earthquakes in the Seismogenic Sources of Japan and Phillipine during the Period 1998-2017, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, Vol. XXIV/4, 1619-1625, Proceedings of the 9th International Congress, Athens, September 2001
• Galanis, O.C., Papazachos, C. B., Hatzidimitriou P. M. and Scordilis E.M., Application of 3-D Velocity Models and Ray Tracing in the Double Difference Earthquake Location Algorithms: Application to a data set from the Mygdonia Basin (Northern Greece), Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, Thessaloniki, April 2004
• Galanis, O.C., Papazachos, C.B., Scordilis, E.M. and Hatzidimitriou, P.M., Seismic Tomography of the Mygdonia Basin (Northern Greece) using Earthquakes Located with a Double-Difference Algorithm, XXIX General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC), Potsdam, September 12-17, 2004
• Manakou M., Raptakis D., Chavez-Garcia F., Apostolidis P., Pitilakis K., Hatzidimitriou P., Papazachos K., Vargemezis G., Karagianni E., Roumelioti Z., Galanis O., Tournas D., Kassaras I., Makropoulos K., Makra K., Anastasiadis A., Margaris V., Theodoulidis N., Savvaidis Bard P.-Y.. Design of a complex 3D geological - geotechnical structure combining geotechnical, geophysical and seismological data. The case of Mygdonian basin - Greece. International Symposium GEOLINE 2005.
• Galanis, O., Papazachos C., Scordilis E. and P. Hatzidimitriou, Improved Earthquake Locations in Greece Using the DD Algorithm and a 3D Velocity Model. First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (a joint event of the 13th ECEE & 30th General Assembly of the ESC), Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 September 2006
• Galanis, O., Papazachos, C., Scordilis, E. and Hatzidimitriou, P., Location of earthquakes in Greece and the surrounding areas using absolute and differential arrival times and a 3D velocity model. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008
• Sleeman, R., Galanis, O., van Eck, T., van den Hazel, G.J., Spinuso, A. and Trani, L., ORFEUS Data Center Operations. September 19-24, 2012. ESC 2012 Moscow. (poster)
• Sleeman, R., Trani, L., Galanis O., van Eck, T., Spinuso, A., van den Hazel, G.J. and Steenbakker, N., New developments in data quality services at ORFEUS Data Center. September 19 2012, ESC 2012, Moscow
• Trani, L., Spinuso, A., Sleeman,R., Ramos Garcia, C., Galanis, O., van Eck, T., ODC: developments to meet the future data challenges. IAHS - IAPSO – IASPEI Joint Assembly, 22-26 July 2013, Gothenburg. Sweden .
• Godey, S., Frobert, L., Mazet-Roux, G., Clinton, J., Kaestli, P., Sleeman, R., Galanis, O., Zednik, J., Semrad, J., Guegen, P., Towards a unique station inventory for Europe. IAHS - IAPSO – IASPEI Joint Assembly, 22-26 July 2013, Gothenburg. Sweden. (poster).
• Sleeman, R., Cauzzi, C., Ballesta, J. D., Käestli, P., Galanis, O., Clinton, J., & Dolfin, E. B., The Rapid Raw Strong–Motion (RRSM) Database. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. August 24-29 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Cauzzi, C., Clinton, J.F., Sleeman, R., Domingo Ballesta, J., Kaestli, P., Galanis, O., RRSM: The European Rapid Raw Strong-Motion Database, AGU Fall Meeting 2014, December 15-19 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA (poster)
• Galanis, O., Papoutsoglou, M., Angelis, E., Analysis of the Cross Validated Q&A community, Proceedings of the 32nd Panhellenic Statistics Conference, 30/05-01/06 2019, Ioannina, Greece, p. 90-104 (in Greek)
• Karakostas, V., Papazachos, C., Papadimitriou, E., Foumelis, M., Kiratzi, A., Pikridas, C., Kostoglou, A., Kkallas, C., Chatzis, N., Bitharis, S., Chatzipetros, A., Fotiou, A., Ventouzi, C., Karagianni, E., Bonatis, P., Kourouklas, C., Paradisopoulou, P., Scordilis, E., Vamvakaris, D., Grendas, I., Kementzetzidou, D., Panou A., Karakaisis, G., Karagianni, I., Hatzidimitriou, P., Galanis, O., The 2021 Tyrnavos (central Greece) doublet (Mw6.3 and Mw6.0): Aftershock relocation, coseismic slip and deformation, September 19-24, 2021. ESC 2021. (poster)
• Paradisopoulou, P., Karagianni, E., Karagianni, I., Panou, A., Galanis, O., Vamvakaris, D., Karakostas, V., Kementzetzidou, D., and Papadimitriou, E., Cascading occurrence of moderate magnitude seismicity in the active fault system of Thiva (central Greece), EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-11763, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11763, 2023. (poster)

Teaching

I have been participating in teaching in the School of Geology of A.U.Th. since academic year 1998-1999. Specifically, I have taken part in

Undergraduate Courses

• Foreign Language Geological Terminology I
• Foreign Language Geological Terminology II
• Statistics

Postgraduate Courses

• Computing for Geophysicists

Undergraduate Exercises and Laboratory Courses

• Field Training
• Theory of Mechanical Oscillations and Elastic Waves
• Introduction to Seismology
• Geological Data Analysis
• Applied Seismology and Environment
• Physics of the Lithosphere
• Statistics

Other Skills

Computing

Administration: Administration of systems running Linux, Unix, Windows and, to a lesser degree, other OSs.
Programming: Programming in a number of languages, mostly Python, C, FORTRAN, Perl and, to a lesser degree, C++, Java, Basic and Pascal, Unix/Linux shells, MS-DOS shell (batch programming). Programming in specialized languages such as SQL for databases and R for statistical processing, as well as the languages of the applications Matlab, Mathematica and awk.
Applications: Most applications included in a typical Unix/Linux system, and mostly the ones used for software development (vim editor, various compilers, make), version control (Git), typesetting (Tex, Latex), and maps and graphs (GMT). I have been using the MS Office suite for more than 25 years. Other commercial software such as Matlab, Mathematica and SPSS.
Web Development: Creation of dynamic webpages with the use of HTML, CSS, PHP or Perl and JavaScript. Basic web administration with Apache.
Specialized Software: Configuration and use of specialized software for seismological data processing, real-time exchange and providing seismological data via web services, as well as a large number of related tools. A lot of experience with SeisComP and to a lesser degree with Naqs Server and the Atlas analysis software, and some experience with Antelope.
Hardware: Hardware tasks, such as assembly, disasembly, part or device replacement in PCs.

Languages

Greek: Native
English: Full Professional Proficiency
Dutch: Limited Working Proficiency