Danai Kazantzidou-Firtinidou

• Senior Researcher
• Center for Security Studies (KEMEA), Greece

Danai Kazantzidou-Firtinidou (MSc) is a Civil Engineer (NTUA, Greece) with MSc in Earthquake Engineering (IUSS Pavia, Univ. of Patras). The past 8 years she works as Research Associate at the Center for Security Studies (Ministry of Citizen Protection) in Greece, where she is involved in projects related with natural hazards, civil protection and critical infrastructures protection. She has more than 10 years of research experience with participation in several European and national funded programs in Greece and other European countries, focusing on the scientific support of civil protection, disaster risk management (DRM) studies and critical infrastructure protection (CIP) activities and has worked as DRM consultant at the World Bank. More specifically, she has served as officer at the pilot Coordination Center for CIP in Greece, and she is experienced in the development of scientific-evidenced policies, planning, conduct and evaluation of multi-organizations exercises. She has moreover conducted several technical post-earthquake visits, studies of seismic vulnerability and risk and has contributed as national expert in risk assessment projects in Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Switzerland. She is trainer at CEPOL and CIVIPOL projects in the area of crisis management and CIP. She has more than 15 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and international conferences.