IOMAC 2022 Conference Committee
Dr. Carlos Ventura
Conference Chair
Dr. Carlos Ventura is currently the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility (EERF) at UBC and has more than 30 years of experience as a structural engineer. Dr. Ventura's areas of research are in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. He has been conducting research on the dynamic behavior and analysis of structural systems subjected to extreme dynamic loads, including severe ground shaking for more than twenty years. His research work includes experimental studies in the field and in the laboratory of structural systems and components. Research developments have included development and implementation of performance-based design methods for seismic retrofit of low rise school buildings, novel techniques for regional estimation of damage to structures during earthquakes, detailed studies on nonlinear dynamic analysis of structures and methods to evaluate the dynamic characteristics of large Civil Engineering structures. His current research is focused on the development of performance-based guidelines for seismic retrofit of schools, on methods to evaluate the interaction between critical infrastructure vulnerable to natural and man-made hazards, and on structural health monitoring of building, bridges and dams. Dr. Ventura has written over 400 technical papers and reports related to the seismic behaviour of structures, and has received numerous awards for his research accomplishments, including the Lieutenant Governor's Award of Excellence (2013), the Innovation Award of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (2010) and the APEGBC Meritorious Achievement Award (2006). He is a member of several national and international professional societies and advisory committees. He is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Fellow of Engineers Canada. He is also a member of several building and bridge code committees. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Ventura is a recognized international consultant on structural vibrations and safety of large Civil Engineering structures.
Dr. Manuel Aenlle López
Manuel Aenlle López is a mechanical engineer and received his M.Sc and Ph.D. from the University of Oviedo in 1994 and 2001, respectively. He is employed as full professor at the University of Oviedo (Spain). In 1995 he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the structural dynamics department of the research institute ISMES.sPa (Bergamo-Italy) and a post-doctoral fellow at the Aalborg University (2004), Aarhus University (2013) and Technical University of Denmark (2017). He has been the chair of the permanent committee of the International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC) since 2015. His research has been focused on operational modal analysis (OMA), dynamic behavior of laminated glass elements, and fatigue of structures. Manuel Aenlle López has published 38 journal papers, more than 90 papers in national and international conferences, and he has been the principal investigator of 5 research projects funded by the Spanish Ministers of Research.
Dr. Palle Andersen
Dr. Palle Andersen is a Civil Engineer with specializations in computational methods for structural dynamics. He got his M.Sc. in 1993 from Department of Civil Engineering at Aalborg University, and his Ph.D. in 1997. Since 1999 he has been the managing director and co-founder of Structural Vibration Solutions A/S. He is the senior developer of the ARTeMIS software for Operational Modal Analysis. For more than 20 years, he has been giving lectures and courses on Operational Modal Analysis and the use of ARTeMIS software worldwide. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 papers and articles on Operational Modal Analysis and Damage Detection, and the co-inventor of the Frequency Domain Decomposition patent. Today one of the most used techniques for Operational Modal Analysis.
Niels-Jorgen Jacobsen
Mr. Jacobsen joined Brüel & Kjær (now Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK)) in 1986 as a Digital Signal Processing software developer on analyzer systems. Later job positions include project manager, application specialist, vibration group manager and product manager as which he is currently working with responsibility for HBK’s structural dynamics solutions. Mr. Jacobsen has worked intensively with both theoretical and practical aspects in the fields of structural dynamics, machine diagnostics and industrial acoustics. He has been the author of several technical papers and articles and is frequently lecturing worldwide. Mr. Jacobsen holds a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a B.Sc. in International Business from Copenhagen Business School.
Alexander Mendler
Alexander is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia (UBC) under the supervision of Carlos Ventura and Michael Döhler from the French National Institute for Computer Science and Automatic Control (Inria) in Rennes. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a B.Sc. in civil engineering (2013) and a M.Sc. in structural engineering (2016). Alexander’s area of research is in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, where his work focuses on the performance evaluation and model validation of structural health monitoring systems. Research developments have included reliability-based methods to determine the minimum detectable and localizable damages for global vibration monitoring, as well as sensor placement strategies, and non-invasive validation techniques.
Mehrtash Motamedi
Dr. Mehrtash Motamedi, P.Eng. is Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering and EERF Engineering Manager at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is an expert in seismic design and retrofitting of structures and nonstructural components, and has 20 years of experience in experimental research projects in Earthquake and Structural Engineering area.
Dr. Motamedi closely collaborates with professionals from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia to provide the supportive testing materials for the innovative retrofit guidelines for school buildings titled, “Seismic Retrofit Guidelines.” As part of these guidelines, Dr. Motamedi has coordinated several testing programs to generate the unique test data and verification for analytical models used for the performance-based seismic assessment and retrofit of school buildings in BC.
Dr. Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki
Dr. Salman Soleimani-Dashtaki obtained his PhD in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2018, working on Seismic Strengthening of Unreinforced Masonry Walls Using Sprayable Ecofriendly Ductile Cementitious Composite (EDCC). He received his BASc with a minor in commerce from the Sauder School of Business at UBC. Dr. Soleimani has been an active member of the both UBC and BC chapters of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and he now serves on the Board of Directors of the BC EERI Chapter. He is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow and a sessional lecturer at the civil engineering department of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver.
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