Renmin Pretell
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- Email: rpretell@unr.edu
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Dr. Renmin Pretell is an assistant professor of geotechnical engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the 推荐杏吧原创. Dr. Pretell holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a B.S. in civil engineering from the National University of Engineering (UNI), Peru. Prior to graduate school, Dr. Pretell worked as a consulting engineer for five years with Golder Associates (currently WSP) at the Lima and Denver offices, and as a postdoctoral scholar with the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining the University. Dr. Pretell’s research aims to advance the performance assessment of geotechnical systems and infrastructure by integrating data, numerical simulations and analytics. His research interests include seismic site response and ground motions, soil spatial variability and subsurface uncertainty, mine tailings and soil liquefaction effects.
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2022
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2019
- B.S., Civil Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), National University of Engineering (UNI), Peru, 2012
- EERI Young Members Committee (EERI YMC) , 2023 – 2025 Co-Chair
- United States Society on Dams & International Commission on Large Dams
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER)
- Site response
- Ground motions
- Subsurface spatial variability
- Mine tailings
- Soil liquefaction and cyclic softening
Selected publications
- Pretell, R., Abrahamson, N. A., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2023). “” Earthquake Spectra 39(3): 1502-1533. Open Access.
- Pretell, R., Abrahamson, N. A., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2023). “” Earthquake Spectra 39(3): 1473-1501. Open Access.
- Pretell, R., Ziotopoulou, K., and Abrahamson, N. A. (2022). “” Earthquake Spectra 38(3): 2235–2259.
- Basu, D., Pretell, R., Montgomery, J., and Ziotopoulou, K. (2022). “” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 156(2022): 107243.
- Pretell, R., Ziotopoulou, K., and Davis, C. A. (2021). “.” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 147(2): 05020014.