Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has been appointed Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), a multi-institutional research and education center headquartered at Berkeley.
Mosalam will begin his appointment January 1, 2016, succeeding Stephen Mahin, who has served as director since 2009.
Mosalam joined the faculty of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Berkeley in 1997. He currently leads the department’s Structural Engineering, Mechanics & Materials program and has long been affiliated with PEER.
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- Khalid Mosalam Appointed as PEER Director (PEER News)
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- Khalid Mosalam appointed director of PEER (Berkeley Engineering)