Moehle

Jack Moehle is Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkley. He holds bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made significant contributions to the advancement of seismic design of structures on a global scale. He also has made extensive contributions in reinforced concrete, code development, and improved structural design practices.

From 1997-2008, he served as director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at UC, Berkeley, leading 15 contributing universities in research on the behavior of buildings and bridges during earthquake ground shaking. That research led to a methodology used by FEMA today. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Jack also is an Honorary Member of the American Concrete Institute and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Among his many recognitions, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2005. In 2020, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute presented him with its highest honor, the George W. Housner Medal, for his extraordinary and lasting contributions to public earthquake safety.