Dr. Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow & Sessional Lecturer
Seismic retrofit strategies for low-rise unreinforced masonry, Ecofriendly Ductile Cementitious Composite (Earthquake-Resistant Concrete or EDCC), structural engineering, earthquake engineering, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), vibrations of structures, structural rehabilitation, building condition assessment, civil infrastructure repair & strengthening, innovative construction materials, advanced concrete technology, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), high performance materials,
Brett Gilley, MSc.
Associate Professor of Teaching
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides, Tsunami, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Disasters, Education, Science Education, Two-stage exams, Exams, Geology, Rocks, Minerals,
Matthew Yedlin, PhD
Associate Professor
Earthquakes, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear weapons, flipped classroom pedagogy, geophysics, digital signal processing, electroencephalography
Dr. Tony T.Y. Yang, PhD, PEng
Professor
Seismic behaviour and design of steel, concrete and composite structures, seismic behaviour and design of tall buildings,
Michael Hooper
Associate Professor
Urban planning, displacement, disasters, densification, participatory planning, post-disaster reconstruction, comparative politics, urban politics, public policy,
Cristiano Loss
Assistant Professor in Timber Engineering
Associate Chair of UBC Wood Building Design and Construction
Timber Engineering, Timber Design, Mass Timber Assemblies, Engineered Wood Products, Sustainability, Reliability-Based Design, Seismic Design, Dynamic of Structures, Design by Testing, Design for Deconstruction,
Carlos Molina Hutt, PhD, PE, C Eng
Assistant Professor
Structural and earthquake engineering, performance-based seismic design, seismic resilience, risk analysis, tall buildings
Mahdi Taiebat, P.Eng.
Professor
Theoretical and computational geomechanics, constitutive modeling of engineering materials, physics and mechanics of granular materials, geotechnical earthquake engineering, static and dynamic soil-structure interaction
Simon Peacock
Professor
Earthquake, geology, education, STEM education, science education, tsunami, earth science
Dharma Wijewickreme, PhD
Professor
Buried pipelines engineering, soil pipe interaction, earthquake liquefaction of soils, geotechnical earthquake engineering, foundation engineering, soil mechanics
Shahria Alam, PhD
Professor
Seismic analysis and design of buildings and bridges, seismic retrofitting, smart materials and its structural applications
Michele Koppes, PhD
Associate Professor
Climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases
Ahmad Rteil
Assistant Professor
Effect of concrete deterioration and steel corrosion on the behaviour of concrete structures, repair and strengthening existing structures using composite materials, post-consumer waste products in concrete
Carlos Ventura
Professor
Director, Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF)
Structural engineering, earthquake engineering, vibrations of structures, buildings, bridges, dams, structural health monitoring, seismic risk
Michael Bostock, PhD
Professor
Structure of the Canadian upper mantle
Dr. Minghao Li
Associate Professor
timber engineering, mass timber, structural design, cross laminated timber, seismic resilience,
Dr. Trevor Carey, PhD
Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Liquefaction, Earthquake Engineering, Natural Hazards, Cascadia, Earthquakes,
Dr. Nemy Banthia, PhD, PEng, FACI, FCSCE, FICI, FCAE, FRSC
Professor
Distinguished University Scholar and Sr. Canada Research in Infrastructure Rehabilitation
Civil infrastructure, bridges, concrete, repair, strengthening, rehabilitation, recycling, industrial by-products, environment, sustainable development