People

Principal Investigator

Prof. Ketson R. M. dos Santos

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics (Columbia University/USA)

  • M.Phil  in Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics (Columbia University/USA)

  • M.S. in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering) (University of São Paulo/Brazil)

  • B.S. Civil Engineering (Federal University of Alagoas/Brazil)

Graduate students

Miao Liu 

  • Ph.D. student (Fall 2025-Current)

  • M.S. in Structural Engineering (Wuhan Institute of Technology/China)

  • B.S. in Civil Engineering (Chongqing Jiaotong University/China)

 

João Gabriel Duarte 

  • Ph.D. student (Fall 2023-Current)

  • B.S. in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Alagoas/Brazil)

 

Undergraduate student

Shaunak Mehal

  • Mechanical Engineering (University of Minnesota)

 

Postdoc

Wanderlei M. P. Júnior

  • (Fall 2025 - Current)

  • Ph.D.  in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Goias/Brazil)

  • M.S. in Civil Engineering (Federal University of Goias/Brazil)

  • B.S. in Civil Engineering (State University of Goias/Brazil)

Visiting scholars

Qianqing Wang 

  • Visiting scholar at UMN (Summer 2023)

  • Ph.D. student EPFL (Switzerland) (co-supervision)

  • B.S. École des Ponts ParisTech (France)

  • B.S. Tongji University (China)