Ken Elwood

MBIE Chair in Earthquake Engineering

Director, QuakeCoRE

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Auckland, Newmarket Campus, B906-235,314-390 Khyber Pass Road

Director, Member of Scientific Committee, International Joint Research Laboratory of Earthquake Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China.

Bio:

Ken joined the University of Auckland in July 2014 after 11 years on faculty at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Ken was drawn to New Zealand to pursue the numerous opportunities for research and implementation in earthquake risk reduction. He is actively involved in research related to the seismic response of existing concrete and masonry buildings. Ken received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995, and BASc from the University of British Columbia in 1993. Ken is a member of several national and international code committees including the seismic provisions of the American Concrete Instititute Building Code (ACI 318). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and Chair of the EERI Learning from Earthquakes program.

Email: k.elwood@auckland.ac.nz