Amjad J. Aref

Biography

Dr. Amjad J. Aref pursued his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Birzeit in the year 1987. Later he carried out her Master degree in the year 1991 from New Jersey Institute of Technology in the department of Civil Engineering. In the year 1997 he carried out her Ph.D work in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. He started his career as Teaching Assistant in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil Engineering. Later in 1993 he was appointed as Research Assistant. In 2003 he became Assistant Professor in University of Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. In late 2003 he was promoted to Associate Professor. In the year 2009 till date he is working as a Professor University at Buffalo, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. In 2012 he was assigned as Deputy Director, Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulations Laboratory. After which he became Director, Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulations Laboratory (SEESL), and Principal Investigator of NEES at Buffalo.

Research Interest

Structural and Earthquake Engineering; Computational Engineering Mechanics