Prof. Kardomateas has conducted extensive research in the Mechanics of Aerospace Structures and Materials, both conventional (metallic) and advanced (composite).  He is the author (together with R.L. Carlson) of the book: An Introduction to Fatigue in Metals and Composites, published by Chapman and Hall, 1996, the author (together with L.A. Carlsson) of the book Structural and Failure Mechanics of Sandwich Composites, published by Springer in 2011 and the author (together with R.L. Carlson and J.I. Craig) of the book Mechanics of Failure Mechanisms in Structures, published by Springer in 2012.  He is also the editor of five volumes on the topic of Failure Mechanics of Composite and Sandwich Structures as well as the author of about 200 papers published in refereed journal or as parts of books. Dr. Kardomateas has delivered about 200 conference and seminar presentations and short courses, including many Plenary/Keynote lectures. Dr. Kardomateas’s extensive and well cited research spans a wide range of Aerospace Structures topics, including Composite and Sandwich Structural Behavior, Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Behavior, Stability, Mechanics of Nano-structured Materials, Mechanics of Piezo-Electro-Magneto-Elastic Solids, Thermal and Environmental Effects, etc.  Dr. Kardomateas’ research has been published in highly respected journals in the Mechanics area, such as the Journal of Applied Mechanics, the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the AIAA Journal, the International Journal of Fracture, the International Journal of Solids and Structures, the Philosophical Magazine, etc. Several of his papers have been the most downloaded papers from the journals’ websites.  The extensive list of his scholarly contributions includes a novel highly accurate nonlinear structural theory, the Extended High Order Sandwich Panel Theory (EHSAPT) for the static and dynamic analysis of sandwich aero-structures; the benchmark 3D Elasticity solutions to structural buckling/wrinkling of advanced composite and sandwich structures; the benchmark dynamic elasticity solutions for blast response of sandwich composite structures; a new mixed-mode fatigue growth law for delaminations in layered composite aero- structures (and related experiments);  the introduction of a new, highly efficient finite element for sandwich structures;  the closed form solutions for the energy release rate and mode mixity of face/core disbonding in sandwich composites in support of the FAA led Composite Materials Handbook CMH-17 new chapters on the topic; the small fatigue crack growth experiments and prediction approaches in aluminum and titanium alloys in support of the FAA helicopter damage tolerance program; a novel inelastic discrete asperities closure model in metallic fatigue crack growth embedded in metal fatigue codes; the discovery of new singularities for Mixed Mode I and II interface cracks in piezo-electro-magneto-elastic anisotropic bi-materials; the novel  nonlocal elasticity solutions for multi-walled carbon nanotubes, etc Dr. Kardomateas’s research has been sponsored by major aerospace and other funding agencies and industry, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Rotorcraft Technology Center (NRTC), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Army Research Office (ARO), the US Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Sikorsky Aircraft, Lockheed-Martin, Airbus Helicopters, General Motors,etc. Dr. Kardomateas has served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics and the AIAA Journal, as a Contributing Editor of the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics and as a guest editor of the International Journal of Solids and Structures and the Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures. Dr. Kardomateas is a Fellow of the ASME and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He has served as the Technical Chair of the 2014 ASME Congress, the General Chair of the 2015 ASME Congress and the Steering Committee Chair of the 2017 ASME Congress and the Chair of the Applied Mechanics Division Composites Committee of the ASME, the Program Representative of the Aerospace Division Structures and Materials Committee of the ASME; he has also served as a Member of AIAA Technical Committee on Structures and the Stability Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of the ASCE.   Dr. Kardomateas has also served in many other panels and committees and he is currently serving as the Chair of the AIAA Daniel Guggenheim Medal Board of Award and also in the AIAA Associate Fellows Review Panel.  Moreover, he has served as Session Chair/Vice-Chair in numerous Conferences, has organized numerous Symposia in the field of Composite and Sandwich Structures at ASME, AIAA and AHS forums and has served on the Organizing Committee of the Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh International Conferences on Sandwich Structures, on the Executive Committee of SECTAM XXII, and as the Topical Organizer of the Structures and Materials Committee of the Aerospace Division of the ASME.  He has also served on external evaluation committees for many academic programs. As an aerospace engineering educator, Dr. Kardomateas has been the PhD advisor of many very successful students, including students in very high positions in the aerospace industry (such as Bell Helicopter, Sikorsky Aircraft etc) and students that are very successful faculties in universities in the USA and abroad.  In addition he has hosted several visiting scholars.  Furthermore, he has chaired many internal committees at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and as Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Structures and Materials Behavior discipline in the 1990s,  Dr. Kardomateas led the transition from quarter to semester curriculum.