Pedro Lomonaco joined Oregon State University in August 2014 from the Environmental Hydraulics Institute, University of Cantabria, in Spain, where he was the Head of the Hydraulics, Coasts and Offshore Laboratory from 2007-2014. Previously, Dr. Lomonaco was a Research Officer of the National Research Council’s Canadian Hydraulics Centre, in Ottawa, where he designed and executed physical model testing of hydraulic, coastal and ocean structures.

Dr. Evans is an enthusiastic teacher with interests in both fundamental and applied topics. He teaches courses on topics such as granular mechanics, numerical methods, unsaturated soil mechanics, laboratory methods, and alternative energy.

Matt Evans joined Oregon State University in 2012 from the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University where he was an Assistant Professor from 2006-2012. Dr. Evans was a practicing engineer working on alternative approaches for waste encapsulation before pursuing his graduate degrees.

Scott Ashford’s career with Oregon State University began in the early 1980s, when he was a civil engineering undergrad hired to stack rocks for a riprap study at the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Now, as Kearney Dean of Engineering, he oversees the 7th largest college of engineering in the nation, with nearly 400 faculty and staff and serving nearly 12,000 students. He considers this to be a lot more gratifying than stacking rocks.

I’m a Research Associate in Structural Engineering at Oregon State University working with Prof. Michael H. Scott. My research focuses on the nonlinear fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using the particle finite element method (PFEM). All the work are implemented in the OpenSees framework.

Dr. Yim has been at Oregon State University since 1987 and is currently the Glenn Willis Holcomb Professor of Structural Engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering. He is the principal investigator of the 10-year NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Tsunami Research Facility Site Operation Project. His research focuses on fluid and structural mechanics in the marine environment using high-performance computing based multi-physics, multi-scale and multi-domain systems methods.

Harry Yeh joined the faculty of Oregon State University in 2003, and is a Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering. His expertise is in the field of hydrodynamics associated with natural hazards, especially those in a wide variety of tsunami-related problems. His extensive experience of field studies includes the 1992 Nicaragua tsunami, the 1992 Flores tsunami, the 1993 Okushiri tsunami, the 1994 Shikotan tsunami, the 1996 Peru tsunami, the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, the 2004 Great Indian Ocean tsunami, and the most recent 2011 Tohoku tsunami in Japan.