Keith Porter

Title: Associate Research Professor
Group: Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics
Office: ECOT 641
Phone: (626) 233-9758
E-mail: keith.porter@colorado.edu

Education:

  • B.S. Civil Engineering, University of California at Davis, 1987
  • M.Eng. Structural Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1990
  • Ph.D. Structural Engineering, Stanford University, 2000

Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~porterka

Honors and Distinctions:

  • George W. Housner Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2000-2002
  • Achievement Rewards for College Scholarship (ARCS) Fellow, 1998-1999
  • Haresh Shah Family Fellow, Stanford University, 1997-1998
  • UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 1989-1990
  • UC Regents Fellow, 1988-1989
  • Tau Beta Pi, 1987

Professional Affiliations:

  • Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
  • Seismological Society of America
  • Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering

Interests:

  • Seismic vulnerability
  • Socioeconomic consequences of natural disasters
  • Multihazard risk management and risk mitigation
  • Performance-based earthquake engineering