Dan Mircea Frangopol is an American civil engineer and the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Education, career, and academic positions Frangopol received his Diploma in Engineering from the Institute of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, in 1969 and his doctorate of Applied Sciences from the University of Liège, Belgium in 1976. His doctoral thesis, entitled Probabilistic Study of Structural Safety, was supervised by and . After receiving his diploma in 1969, Frangopol held a position as assistant professor at the Institute of Civil Engineering in Bucharest until 1974 when he moved to Belgium to become a Research Structural Engineer (structural reliability, analysis and design of inelastic structures, structural optimization) in the Department of Mechanics of Materials and Structural Engineering, University of Liège. In 1977 Frangopol returned to Romania as an associate professor at the Institute of Civil Engineering in Bucharest and moved to Belgium in 1979 working as a project engineer at A. Lipski Consulting Engineers in Brussels. In March 1983 he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder as an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. He was promoted to full professor in 1988 and become an emeritus professor in 2006. In 2006 he moved to Lehigh University as Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture. Since January 2008 he has been a Visiting Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei and since September 2009 he is an Honorary Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. Frangopol is an experienced researcher and consultant to industry and government agencies, both nationally and abroad. His work has been funded by NSF, FHWA, ONR, NASA, USACE, AFOSR, ARDEC, NCHRP, US DOT UTC, CDOT, FDOT, PennDOT, ASCE, NATO, and by numerous other agencies including Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, ArcelorMittal, Modjeski and Masters, Progeny Systems Corporation, Henry Luce Foundation, U.K. Highway Agency and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. He has authored or co-authored 4 books, 64 book chapters, over 450 articles in archival journals (including 14 prize-winning papers from ASCE, IABSE, Elsevier, and EC3 (European Council on Computing in Construction), and 130 articles in ASCE journals), and more than 600 papers in conference proceedings. As of February 2023, his h-index =