Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman
Work experience
Professor and Researcher. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
January, 2017 - present
Associate Professor and Researcher. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
January, 2012 - 2016
Languages
English (Fluent)
Spanish (Fluent)
French (Literate)
Key Research Interests
Earthquake Seismology and Earthquake Engineering
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Numerical Methods and High Performance Computing
Post-doctoral Researcher for the USGS. Contracted through Synergetics, Inc.
āOctober, 2008 - December, 2011
MS Thesis: Approximate Green's Function for a Heterogeneous Medium: Derivation and Applications (in Spanish).
Advisor: Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma
Honors BS Thesis: Dynamic Response of Earth and Rockfill Dams (in Spanish)
Advisor: Francisco J. Sanchez-Sesma
Relevant Coursework: General Theory of Structures (I-II), Structural Dynamics, Finite Element Method, Structural Instability
Computational Mechanics Group
Doctoral Thesis: Earthquake Source Mechanics and Wave Propagation in Sedimentary Basins
Advisor: Jacobo Bielak
Relevant Coursework: Continuum Mechanics, Dislocation Mechanics, Inelasticity
Teaching Assistantships:
Structural Analysis. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Undergraduate level. Fall 2007.
Finite Element Method. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Graduate level. Fall 2004 and Fall 2006.
Solid Mechanics. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Undergraduate level. Fall 2005.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Mexico City, Mexico.
ā2000-2002 MS in Structural Engineering
1994-1999 BS in Civil Engineering
ā2002-2008 PhD in Civil Engineering Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. USA.
Education
Classes Taught
Honors and Awards
Member of the Mexican National Sysmtem of Researchers (SNI I).
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Winner First EERI Annual Graphics Competition (2008), coauthor.
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Winner Super Computing HPC Analytics Challenge (2006), coauthor.
Invited Talks
Synthetic ground motion system for structural design and evaluation in Mexico City
International Workshop on Ground Motion Simulation Validation, September 2016.
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City-Soil Interaction in the Valley of México, Seismic Waves and Diffuse Fields.
AXA-UNAM Workshop. UNAM. October 2013.
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Earthquake Ground Motion Simulations in the Central United States.
Dix Seminar. California Institute of Technology. March 2011.