Employment & Education

Employment

ProfessorCivil and Environmental Engineering and the Princeton Materials InstitutePrinceton University2021 - Present
Adjunct ProfessorSchool of Civil and Environmental EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology2021 - Present
ProfessorSchool of Civil and Environmental EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology2015 - 2021
Program DirectorMechanics of MaterialsNational Science Foundation2009 - Present
Acting Program DirectorNano and Bio MechanicsNational Science Foundation2009 - 2010
Adjunct ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015 - Present
ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2005 - 2015
Faculty AffiliateDept. of Mechanical Science and EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2005 - 2015
Associate ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2001 - 2005
Assistant ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign1998 - 2001
Faculty FellowDept. of Theoretical and Applied MechanicsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2000 - 2015
FacultyComputational Science and EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2000 - 2015
FellowNational Center for Supercomputing ApplicationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2002 - 2003
Adjunct ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of California - Davis1998 - 2001
Assistant ProfessorDept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of California - Davis1995 - 1998
Faculty FellowGraduate Group in Applied Mathematics
 
University of California - Davis1997 - 1998
ConsultantOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge, Tennessee1995 - Present
ConsultantDehan Engineering NumericsIthaca, New York1995

Education

Ph.D.Civil Engineering
 
Cornell University1995
 Thesis: Novel formulations of the boundary element method for fracture mechanics and error estimation
M.S.Theoretical and Applied MechanicsCornell University1993
M.S.Civil Engineering (with Honors)PUC-Rio, Brazil1988
B.S.Civil EngineeringUniversity of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil1985