Prof Zenon Medina-Cetina

Prof Zenon Medina-Cetina

Prof Zenon Medina-Cetina is Associate Professor at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering and holds joint appointments in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, the Department of Ocean Engineering, and the Department of Geography. At TAMU he leads the Stochastic Geomechanics Laboratory (SGL) conducting research in probabilistic applications in engineering to improve current practices on risk assessment and management related to natural and anthropogenic threats, to map their associated social, economic and environmental impacts. He is the Associate Director of the Centre for Geospatial Sciences, Applications and Technology (GEOSAT).
Prof Medina-Cetina graduated as Civil Engineer from the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan (UADY) (1994) and obtained a Master of Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) (1996). While at the UNAM he worked as a research assistant for the Instituto de Ingenieria (I de I) (1994-2001) and during this same period of time he worked as an independent consultant introducing geostatistical analysis on large-scale site characterization projects to account for the influence of material heterogeneity in soil-structure interaction problems, both onshore and offshore.
In 2001 Prof Medina-Cetina was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Masters of Science and a PhD at The Johns Hopkins University in Stochastic Mechanics (2001- 2006). He held a dual appointment at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Oslo Norway (2006 – 2008) at the International Centre for Geohazards (ICG) and at the Computational Geomechanics Division (CGD).
Prof Medina-Cetina served twice as Chair of the Offshore Site Investigation and Geotechnics Committee (OSIG) of the Society for Underwater Technology SUT (2012-2015). In 2013 he was named ‘SUT Fellow’, and in November 2015 he was elected President & Chair of the SUT branch in the U.S.