Project Personnel

Principal Investigator (PI)

Amr S. Elnashai William J. and Elaine F. Hall Professor
Director of the Mid-America Earthquake Center
Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 265-5497
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: aelnash@illinois.edu
Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/faculty/aelnash/

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PIs)

Billie F. Spencer, Jr. Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
Director, Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2213 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
205 North Mathews Ave
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-8630
Fax: (443) 646-0675
Email: bfs@illinois.edu
Laboratory website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/sstl/

Daniel A. Kuchma Assistant Professor
Operations Director, NEES@UIUC Simulation Facility
2114 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-1571
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: kuchma@illinois.edu
Personal website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/kuchma/

Staff

Gregory C. Pluta Operations Manager
2142 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-7522
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: gpluta@illinois.edu

Michael Bletzinger System Administrator
2142 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-7522
Fax: (217) 265-8040
Email: mbletzin@illinois.edu

Tim Prunkard Supervisor, Technical Services, CEE Shop
1135 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-6913
Email: prunkard@illinois.edu

Grzegorz Banas Senior Research Engineer, Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory
1120c Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2352 Phone: (217) 333-5019
Email: gbanas@illinois.edu