Faculty

Bernard Amadei, Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Rock mechanics, geological engineering, Earth Systems Engineering, Engineering for Developing Communities.
Shideh Dashti, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.
John S. McCartney, Barry Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin. Geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, hydraulic and mechanical properties of unsaturated soil-geosynthetic systems, dynamic properties of reinforced soils, centrifuge modeling, reliability-based design.
Ronald Y.S. Pak, Professor, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. Soil dynamics, earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, wave propagation, continuum mechanics, impacts and vibrations, analytical and numerical methods, centrifuge modeling.
W. Tad Pfeffer, Professor, Ph.D. University of Washington. Dynamic glaciology; heat and mass transfer in snow, ice and porous media; mechanics and thermodynamics of continuous media; fluid dynamics; numerical and experimental methods.
Richard A. Regueiro, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University. Theoretical and computational solid mechanics as applied to geologic materials; discrete, length-scale dependent failure modeling; finite deformation inelasticity; generalized continua; mixture theory; finite element and meshless methods.
Stein Sture, Professor, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. Soil and rock mechanics, constitutive relationships, numerical methods in geomechanics, dynamics, laboratory modeling.
Dobroslav Znidarcic, Professor, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder. Soil mechanics, earth structures, flow processes in soils, contaminant transport, unsaturated soil mechanics, centrifuge modeling, numerical modeling.