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Professor Arduino joined the geotechnical group at the University of Washington's Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 1997. His primary research interests include computational geomechanics with an emphasis on constitutive modeling of soils, finite element analysis, meshless techniques, soil-structure interaction, and hazard analysis. His current research areas focus on landslide and debris flow simulation, soil-structure interaction, and performance-based earthquake engineering. He has conducted research funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and the Washington State Department of Transportation. Professor Arduino held the Ray Bowen Professorship in Innovation Engineering Education from 2003 to 2007 and received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Washington's Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2009. He has served as a visiting professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has contributed to the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering. Furthermore, he was part of the reconnaissance team for the Maule earthquake in Chile and has collaborated with various private firms and government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, together with faculty, developing a Wave Propagation Tool.
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