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Michael Riemer is an Adjunct Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests primarily focus on evaluating soil properties under both static and dynamic loading conditions. Riemer has a specific interest in the constitutive behavior of sands and the liquefaction of unusual soils. He teaches graduate-level courses such as Advanced Geotechnical Testing Design (CE273) and assists with the undergraduate course in Geotechnical Engineering (CE175), guiding students in independent experimental research within geotechnical laboratories. Riemer completed his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992, following an M.S. in the same field in 1987 and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1986. His extensive expertise encompasses the development of porewater pressures in saturated soils and modeling the effects of seismic loading on soil engineering properties, notably focusing on liquefaction and flow failures.
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