ALAIN PECKER: Nonlinear Soil-Structure Interaction: Impact on the Seismic Response of Structures (T2)

BRIEF CV

Alain PECKER graduated from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) in 1972 and obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of California, at Berkeley in 1973. He is presently Chairman and Managing Director of Géodynamique et Structure, a French engineering consulting firm in Earthquake Engineering that he founded 28 years ago. His professional interest lies in soil dynamics, liquefaction, wave propagation, soil structure interaction and foundation engineering. He has been consultant to major worldwide civil engineering projects in seismic areas, most notably the Vasco de Gama bridge in Lisbon, the Rion Antirion bridge in Greece, the Athens metro, the Second Severn bridge in UK, the Chiloe bridge in Chile and several nuclear power plants in France, South Africa and Iran.

Alain Pecker is Past President of the French Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Honorary President of the French Association on Earthquake Engineering. He is serving several French and international technical committees on earthquake geotechnical engineering. He is a member of the drafting panel of Eurocode 8 and President of the French Committee for Seismic Codes. He is also Professor of Structural Dynamics at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and at the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (University of Pavia, Italy).

Alain Pecker has authored more than 150 technical papers, been invited as keynote speaker in conferences and received several awards for his work, most notably from the French National Academy of Sciences. He has been elected Member of the French National Academy of Technologies in 2000.

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