J. Carlos Santamarina - Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair and Professor
Contact Information
Room: Mason 299
Phone: 404/894-7605
carlos.santamarina@ce.gatech.edu
Research Interests & Bio
J. Carlos Santamarina - Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair and Professor
For personal web site and Particulate Media Research Laboratory (more details)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Particulate materials: fundametal behavior; engineered soils. Experimental approach: experimental micro-mechanics, wave-based process monitoring, inverse problems. Applications: geotechnical engineering, mining, and energy geomechanics.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
J. Carlos Santamarina is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, where he holds the Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair. He is also the co-director of the Center for Applied Geomaterials Research. Dr. Santamarina graduated from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Ingeniero Civil), and completed graduate studies at the University of Maryland (MSc) and Purdue University (Ph.D). He taught at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn and at the University of Waterloo (Canada). His expertise is in the area of particulate materials and phenomena including diagenetic processes, fabric evolution, energy coupling, environmental effects. Together with his group, they have developed distinct laboratory devices and experimental procedures (e.g., micro-scale experimentation, mechanical and electromagnetic waves, advanced signal processing and inverse problem solving techniques, passive and active systems). Macro-measurements are interpreted at the micro-level (micromechanical models in coarse materials, molecular scale analyses in fine grained particles such as clays). Applications are related to geotechnical characterization, process-monitoring (e.g., tomographic imaging), engineered particulates, and energy geomechanics. Dr. Santamarina has been an invited speaker at international conferences and leading academic institutions in more than 20 countries. His former doctoral students are faculty members at prestigious universities worldwide. Dr. Santamarina has authored more than hundred and fifty publications including two books.