Leaders

Dr. Victor Saouma

is a Full Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder and specializes in the probabilistic-based nonlinear safety assessment (ageing and seismic) of concrete dams and nuclear containment structures. As a faculty he has taught a battery of structural analysis courses (introductory, matrix analysis, finite element, nonlinear analysis of frames) as well as fracture mechanics and continuum mechanics. His research has focused on theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects of infrastructure safety assessments. It has been funded by: National Science Foundation, US Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His academic web page can be found here.

Dr. Jan Červenka

is the executive director at Červenka Consulting, and has a strong research as well as practical oriented experience in application of advanced simulation technology in engineering problems such as: advanced numerical modeling of brittle and heterogeneous materials, simulation of engineering structures, grid/cloud/parallel computing of engineering problems, modeling of smart/intelligent structures/buildings. His professional goal is to strive for new development in these methods and bring them closer to practicing engineers and to extend the applicability of these modern methods in engineering practice.

Dr. M. Amin Hariri-ardebili

is a Research Associate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His main research interests are performance-based earthquake assessment of major structures (concrete dams, nuclear containment structures, and towers), coupled systems mechanics, mathematical modeling and life prediction of alkali-silica reaction. He has a great experience in modeling and simulation of engineering structures with strong academic background. He has published over 75 peer-reviewed journal articles. He also severed as an adjunct lecturer for several graduate level courses such as Earthquake Engineering and Advanced Mechanics of Materials. He is a regular reviewer for Elsevier, ASCE, ACI and Springer journals, as well as editor for 6 journals among them “Shock and Vibration”, and “Infrastructures”. He is also serving as YP Vice Chair for Dam Safety Committee in USSD. His academic webpage can be found here.