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Norman Abrahamson

  • Adjunct Professor

  • Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos

  • Associate Professor

  • Jonathan D. Bray

  • Faculty Chair in Earthquake Engineering Excellence

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    Steven D. Glaser

  • Professor Emeritus

  • Robert Kayen

  • Professor, Adjunct Faculty Senior Scientist, U. S. Geological Survey

  • James W. Rector

  • Professor

  • Michael Riemer

  • Adjunct Professor

  • Yoram N. Rubin

  • Professor

  • Nicholas Sitar

  • Edward G. Cahill and John R. Cahill Professor of Civil Engineering

  • Kenichi Soga

  • Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering Chancellor's Professor

  • Dimitrios Zekkos

  • Professor

  • Latest Research News


    15th Annual Material Point Method Workshop

    Dear Colleagues, We hope you're doing well. This is a friendly reminder to submit your abstract and register for the 15th Annual MPM Workshop hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, on September 5th-6th, 2024. Call for Abstracts: We invite you to submit an abstract for consideration for oral presentation at our event. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase and share your latest research findings and contribute to advancin ...

    Laboratory Testing RnD engineer position opening at UC Berkeley Geosystems!

    The Geosystems group at UC Berkeley is excited to circulate this new career opportunity for an R&D Engineer 3 to support our laboratory testing and field testing capabilities of the Geotechnical Engineering Testing Laboratories, the Geosystems Sensing and Analytics Laboratory (GeoSAL) and the large-scale testing of our Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI). A detailed description of the position is provided here. If you are aware of i ...

    Dimitrios Zekkos to deliver 14th annual GZA lecture of the ASCE Metropolitan section on Seismic Response of Ports

    Professor Dimitrios Zekkos will present the 14th Annual GZA Lecture hosted by the ASCE Metropolitan Section Geo-Institute of ASCE on the topic:  “Seismic Performance of Ports during the 2014 Cephalonia Earthquake: reconnaissance, field testing and numerical modeling"  The lecture will be held virtually on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 6:00pm ET with 1 PDH offered. More information can be found here. You can regist ...

    Athanasopoulos-Zekkos featured in The Geotechnical Engineering Podcast (TGEP)

    Prof. Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos was a guest at The Geotechnical Engineering Podcast (TGEP) hosted by Jared Green and supported by the Engineering Management Institute.  Prof. Athanasopoulos-Zekkos covered several topics, including the critical issues surrounding the liquefaction of gravelly soils and the importance of equity in earthquake resilience as well as what inspired her to become a geotechnical engineer! You can listen at ...

    The 2023 Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was a success!

    The seventh annual UC Berkeley Geotechnical Engineering Research Symposium was held on November 17, 2023, at the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. The symposium showcased current research works in the GeoSystems Engineering group at UC Berkeley and bridged academic and industry communities.   The keynote speakers for the event were five Ph.D. researchers in the GeoSystems Engineering program. They presented their resea ...

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