Pedro Arduino

Bio

Pedro Arduino is a professor at the University of Washington Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering since 1997. His primary research interests are in computational geomechanics with emphasis in constitutive modeling of soils, finite element analysis, and hazard analysis. Most of his current research is in the area of soil-structure interaction, performance-based earthquake engineering, and landslide and debris flow simulation. He conducts research for the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). He is a member of the ASCE EM Inelasticity and ER Earth and Retaining Structures committees and serves on the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering.   Prof. Arduino is a member of GEER and was part of the reconnaissance team that visited Chile after the 2010 Maule, Chile, and 2011 Great Japan earthquakes. He also serves as a consultant to private firms and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Education

• Ph.D in Civil Engineering., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. December 1996.
• M.S.C.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., July 1995.
• M.S.C.E. University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, P.R., June 1993.
• Civil Engineer (Prof. Degree)., Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina. , March 1988.

Appointments

• Associate Chair, Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, WA, U.S. 2010-present.
• Professor, Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Washington Seattle, WA, U.S., 2012-present.
• Associate Professor, Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Washington,Seattle, WA, U.S., 2003-2012.
• Assistant Professor, Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S., 1997-2003.
• Research Assistant, College of Civil and Env. Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S. 1993-1996.
• Research Assistant, Civil and Env. Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1990-1993.
• Instructor, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba, Argentina, 1988-1990.
• Research Assistant, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, 1988-1990.