Prof. Erik Vanmarcke

School of Engineering and Applied Science
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Room E-324, Engineering Quadrangle
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-5896
Fax: (609) 258-3791

Home: 148 Sprindale Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: (609) 751-0221
E-mail: evm@princeton.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (1970)
University of Delaware, M.S. (1967)
University of Leuven, Belgium, Engineer (1965)

Professional Interests:

Prof. VanMarcke's major research interests are: stochastic systems and random media; risk assessment and management; earthquake and extreme-wind risks; geologic hazards and probabilistic site characterization; structural safety; random vibrations; random field theory and applications to engineering, geophysics and, lately, origins of cosmic structure.

Professional Experience:

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, 1999-
Professor of Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Princeton University, 1985-99
Professor of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., 1978-85
Director, Civil Engineering Systems Methodology Group, M.I.T., 1976-81
Gilbert W. Winslow Associate Professor, at M.I.T., 1974-77
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering Department, M.I.T., 1969-77
Analyst, Computer Research on Nonpartisan Districting, 1966
Research Fellow, University of Delaware, 1965-66

Other Experience:

Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professor, Stanford University, 1991
Visiting Scholar in Engineering, Harvard University, 1984-85
Visiting Professor, University of Leuven, Belgium, 1977 and 1984
Founding Editor-in-chief of Structural Safety (Publ. by Elsevier), 1982-91

Dr. VanMarcke was a member of the Independent Panel appointed by President Carter's Science Advisor to review the safety of federal dams, and of two National Research Council committees on dam safety, chairing the NRC Subcommittee on Risk Assessment. He now chairs the Committee on Risk and Vulnerability of ASCE's Council on Natural Hazard Reduction and the Committee on Risk Assessment and Management of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and is a member of the NRC Committee on Infrastructure Vulnerability.

Honors:

Gilbert W. Winslow Professorship, at M.I.T., 1974-77.
Raymond C. Reese Research Award, ASCE, 1975.
Co-Author, Higgins Award-winning paper, American Institute of Steel Construction, 1979.
Walter L. Huber Research Prize, ASCE, 1984.
Shimizu Corporation Visiting Professorship, at Stanford University, 1991
Senior Scientist Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1991
Distinguished Alumnus for 1994, U. of Delaware School of Engineering
Elected Member (Foreign), Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Belgium, 1999
Listings in Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the World
Keynote Lectures: Listed Separately

Publications:

Around 200 professional papers and reports, and two books:

• Random Fields: Analysis and Synthesis, World Scientific Publishing Co.,  (Second revisied and expanded edition), 2010.
• Quantum Origins of Cosmic Structure,  A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Brookfield VT, 1997.

Keynote or Major Theme Lectures:

At the Sixth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, New Dehli, India (1977); Third International Conference on Probability in Soil and Structural Engineering, Sydney, Australia (1979); International Conference on Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Southampton, England (1982); Fourth Canadian National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada (1983); ASCE Conference on Stochastic Mechanics and Structural Reliability, at University of California, Berkeley (1984); International Conference on Dam Safety, Coimbra, Portugal (1984); Fourth International. Symposium on Stochastic Hydraulics, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1984); Fifth International Conference on Probability in Soil and Structural Engineering, Vancouver, Canada (1987); International Conference on Experimental Measurements and Computational Methods, Capri, Italy (1989); ASCE Foundation Engineering Congress, Chicago (1989); Congreso Emilio Rosenblueth, Mexico City (1994); Seventh International Conference on Applications of Probability and Statistics, Paris, France (1995); ASCE Conference on Uncertainty in the Geologic Environment, Madison, Wisconsin (1996), Third International Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Tehran, Iran (May 1999).

Consulting for Government and Industry:

Agbabian and Associates; John Hancock Insurance Company; Crandall Drydock Corporation (through Hansen, Holley and Biggs); Tennessee Valley Authority, Boston Edison Corporation, Yankee Atomic Electric Company, Consumers Power Company (through Weston Geophysical Corporation); Stone and Webster Corporation; Lawrence Livermore Laboratories; Woodward-Clyde Consultants; General Electric Company; Black and Veatch; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Deutsche Babcock; Bundesanstalt für Materialprüfung; Dames and Moore; T.W. Lambe and Associates; Jack R. Benjamin and Associates; Sandia National Laboratories; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station; Defense Nuclear Agency; Federal Emergency Management Agency; U.S. Forest Service; The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; United Nations Development Agency; The World Bank; Synenergy, Inc.; Nixon, Hargrave, Devans and Boyle; Electric Power Research Institute; Norwegian State Oil Company (STATOIL); Phillips Petroleum Company; Norwegian Geotechnical Institute; Southwest Research Institute; NOVA Corporation of Calgary; U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; WBUX Radio; INTEVEP, S.A. (Research Institute for Petroleo de Venezuela); General Star Corporation; Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (through Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley).

Courses at Princeton:

CEE 360/548: Risk Assessment and Management
CEE 558: Random Fields and Random Media

Topics for Senior Thesis/Junior Independent Work at Princeton

Affiliations at Princeton:

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bendheim Center for Finance

Princeton Environmental Institute

Princeton Materials Institute

Personal:

U.S. Citizen, since 1978. Born in Belgium on August 6, 1941.
Modern Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish.