Matías is currently a Ph.D. Student at PUC. He is working on epistemic uncertainty of finite elements models in seismic response of free plan reinforced concrete buildings

Claudio is currently a PhD student at PUC and Adjoint Researcher of the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Engineering at PUC. He started his PhD in 2014 and is working on seismic scenario generation of [...]

Nelson is currently a PhD candidate at PUC and professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile. Link to his personal webpage.

After obtaining his MSc on Structural and Geotechnical Engieering at PUC, Sebastián started his PhD studies at PUC on 2015 under a thesis titled "Design of seismically protected structures with inelastic behavior". He is also a part-time academic at Universidad del [...]

Rosita obtained her PhD at PUC (2016) and she is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Engineering at PUC. She has three ISI papers published to the date. Her PhD thesis addressed the [...]

Rene finished his PhD at PUC in 2014 on the subject of structural vibration control using MR-dampers. Rene is currently working at SIRVE Engineering, has one ISI paper published and another ISI paper accepted for publication. He is currently in the […]

Carlos obtained his PhD degree at PUC on 2007 with a thesis titled "Torsion in systems seismically isolated with elastomeric dispositives" ["Torsión en sistemas aislados sísmicamente con dispositivos elastoméricos", in Spanish].

José Luis finished his PhD at PUC in 2001, and since then has been a professor at the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Engineering at PUC. He has several ISI publications, and conducts teaching and [...]

Ángeles started her MSc at PUC in 2014. She is being co-supervised by professor Edmundo Kronmüller from the School of Psychology at PUC, and is working on the description of the human agents’ behavior and their interaction with the structures [...]

MSc student at PUC.

Claudio conducted research as undergraduate student on 2015 before entering the MSc (2016) program the following year at PUC. He is currently working on seismic protection technologies.

ME student at PUC

Felipe obtained his MSc in 2015 after working as researcher at CIGIDEN. Felipe collaborated with Alan Poulos in his thesis titled “Study of an evacuation drill in Northern Chile”, and was co-supervised by professr Judith Mitrani-Reiser from The Jonhs Hopkins University […]

Joao obtained his MSc degree with a thesis titled “Modeling aspects of free-plan buildings” [“Aspectos de modelamiento en edificios de planta libre”, in Spanish].

Jorge finished his MSc at PUC in 2015 and since then he is been working as a full-time researcher at CIGIDEN. His thesis titled “Nonlinear modeling of reinforced concrete shear walls using an improved fiber element” was also turned into […]

Julio obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2015 with a thesis titled “Analysis of a kinematic prestressed seismic isolator”.

Roberto obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2014 with a thesis titled: “Caracterización del comportamiento axial de elastómeros magnetoreológicos” (in Spanish).

Felipe obtained his MSc degree on 2014 with a thesis titled “Inelastic-brittle behavior of shear wall building during the Chile, 2010 earthquake” [“Comportamiento inelástico-frágil de Edificios de muros durante el terremoto de Chile, 2010”, in Spanish].

Alan finished his MSc at PUC in 2014 and since then is working as a full-time researcher at CIGIDEN. His thesis titled “Risk model of human evacuation under earthquake loads”, and was co-supervised by professr Judith Mitrani-Reiser from The Jonhs [...]

ME at PUC

Juan obtained his MSc degree on 2013 at PUC with a thesis titled “Diseño óptimo de núcleos de hormigón armado para edificios de planta libre” (in Spanish).

Javier obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2013 with a thesis titled “Development of a new frictional piezoelectric semi-active energy disipator” [“Desarrollo de un nuevo disipador de energía friccional piezoeléctrico semi-activo”, in Spanish]. He published his work at Earthquake Engineering […]

Benjamín finished his MSc at PUC in 2013. Thesis title: “Analysis, design and testing of an hourglass-shaped ETP-Copper energy dissipation device”.

Sofía obtained her MSc degree at PUC on 2013 with a thesis titled “Evaluation of the development of undergraduate research competences at the School of Engineering at PUC” [“Evaluación del desarrollo de competencias de investigación en pregrado en la Escuela de […]

Santiago finished his MSc at PUC in 2012. Thesis title: “Comportamiento sísmico de estructuras de puerto” [“Seismic behavior of port structures” in English].

Juan José finished his MSc at PUC in 2012. Thesis title: “Effective design procedure of buildings with energy dissipation devices”.

Catalina obteined her MSc degree at PUC on 2012, with the thesis titled “Synthetic hybrid broadband seismograms based on insar coseismic displacements”.

Claudio obtained his MSc at PUC on 2011, with the thesis “Multiphysics modeling and experimental behavior of viscous fluid dampers”.

Javier received his MSc degree at PUC on 2011 with a thesis titled “Modelación simplificada de edificios altos de planta libre incluyendo el efecto flexural de la losa” (in Spanish).

Benjamín obtained his MSc degree on 2011 with a thesis titled “Part I: Response of reinforced concrete buildings in concepcion during the Maule earthquake” and “Part II: Self-centering frictional damper”. His work assessing the performance of RC buildings after the […]

Alan received his MSc degree on 2011 with a thesis titled “Multi-physics model of a magneto-rheological damper and experimental validation”. He published his work at Engineering Structures in collaboration wiht Rene Zemp at an article with the same title.

César obtained his MSc degree on 2011 with the thesis titled “Empirical model for preliminary estimation of seismic response in nominally symetric free-plan buildings using ANFIS” [“Modelo empírico para estimación preliminar de respuesta sísmica de edificios de planta libre nominalmente […]

José Tomás obtained his MSc degree on 2011 at PUC with a thesis titled “Energy dissipation partition walls”.

ME at PUC

Jaime received his ME at PUC on 2010, with a thesis titled “Comportamiento experimental y diseño del aislador PPP” (in Spanish).

José finished his MSc at PUC in 2009. Thesis title: "Insar compatible ground motions for northern Chile".

Felipe received his MSc degree at PUC on 2008 with a thesis titled “Evaluación del comportamiento cíclico de conexiones prefabricadas ‘Viga-Columna’ con disipación de energía” [“Evaluation of the cyclic behavior of pre-fabricated beam-column connections with energy disipation”, in English].

Gabriel is a Structural Engineer and Master of Engineering class of 2007. Afterwards, he completed his PhD at the University of California Berkeley at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he studied the seismic response of earth retaining […]

Ian obtained his MSc degree on 2006 with his thesis titled “Performance based design of structures with energy dissipation devices”.

Rodrigo obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2006 with a thesis titled “Torsional balance of structures with MR dampers”.

Marcos obtained his MSc at PUC on 2005, with the thesis titled “Torsional balance of asymmetric structures with viscoelastic dampers”.

Gilda obtained her MSc degree at PUC on 2004, with the thesis titled “Integración de la respuesta dinámica de estructuras utilizando splines cúbicos” (in Spanish).

Maurice received his MSc degree at PUC on 2003 with a thesis titled “Análisis dinámico de estructuras usando elementos con plasticidad concentrada” (in Spanish).

Ignacio obtained his MSc degree on 2003 with a thesis titled “Torsional balance of Plan-Asymmetric structures with frictional dampers: Analytical and experimental results”. He currently works at SIRVE Engineering.

Óscar finished his MSc at PUC in 2003. Thesis title: “Análisis estático de estructuras con grandes desplazamientos y relaciones constitutivas no lineales, utilizando elementos finitos” (in Spanish).

Carlos obtained his MSc at PUC on 2002, with a thesis titled “Análisis y diseño de estructuras con disipadores metálicos de cobre” (in Spanish).

Patricio obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2002 with a thesis titled “Seismic isolation of structures based on hybrid rubber and alloys system: analysis, experimentation, and design” [“Aislación sísmica de estructuras en base a sistemas híbridos de goma y […]

Thomas obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 2001, with the thesis titled “Evaluación y predicción de daños sísmicos en estructuras convencionales y con SRV: Marco teórico” (in Spanish).

Mario received his MSc degree at PUC on 2001 with a thesis titled: "Evaluación y predicción de daños sísmicos en estructuras convencionales y con SRV: Implementación numérica" (in Spanish).

Néstor obtained his MSc degree on 2000 with a thesis “Modeling and simulation of a six-degree mechanism with structural interaction” [“Modelación y simulación de un mecanismo de seis grados de libertad con interacción estructural”, in Spanish].

ME at PUC.

Ricardo obtained his MSc degree at PUC on 1998 with a thesis titled “Passive energy dissipation systems to reduce vibrations on structures: analysis and design” [“Sistemas Pasivos de Disipación de Energía para la Reducción de Vibraciones en Estructuras: Análisis y Diseño”, […]

Current TPD student at PUC.

IoP student at PUC, 2013

IoP student at PUC, 2008

IoP student at PUC, 2006.

IoP student at PUC, 2006.

IoP student at PUC, 2006.