Alexander Maldonado (BS, Student): Alexander Maldonado is currently an undergraduate research assistant in the Structural Engineering Testing Laboratory at the University of Washington, working with Dr. Travis Thonstad and Dr. Paolo Calvi. He participated in the 2022 LSAMP Scientist Program at UW, where he assisted with large-scale structural testing of panel elements and data analysis. At the end of the program, he gave a poster presentation titled “Shear Behavior of Macro-Synthetic Fiber-Reinforced Concrete” to his fellow students and the wider UW community.

Alec Yuetter (MS, Student):  Alec is a graduate research assistant at University of Washington, Seattle. He received his BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington in 2017 and is currently pursuing his masters. His MS thesis is investigating new connections for CFST components using anchorage and bond. This work is primarily experimental, joint with the National Science Foundation and conducted under the supervision of Professor Lehman.

Carolyn Donohoe (MS, Student): Carolyn Donohoe is a structural engineering graduate student at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. in civil engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, Carolyn worked as a staff engineering for Moffatt & Nichol, a marine structures firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently working with Dr. Travis Thonstad investigating the characteristics and implementation of fiber-reinforced polymer concrete for accelerated bridge construction applications.

Danielle Voytko (MS, Student): Danielle Voytko graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2018 and is now a Structural Engineering and Mechanics Master’s student at the University of Washington. She is currently researching the behavior of Ultra High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) when subject to shear loading in a collaborative project with the University of Oklahoma. The main goal of this project is to determine the changes in the response of UHPC due to differences in local materials along with different volumes of steel fibers in the mix design. 

Fiona Clayton (MSCE, Student): Fiona is a graduate research assistant at the University of Washington, Seattle where she is currently pursuing a master’s in structural engineering. She received her bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington in 2025. During her undergraduate studies, she was a member of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program and was actively involved in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Seismic Design Competition team for two years, contributing to the team’s reestablishment and return to competition. She also worked at the University of Washington’s Large-Scale Structural Engineering Testing Laboratory for two years, assisting with research activities, including a project focused on corrosion in reinforced concrete and its experimental testing. She further gained industry experience through an internship at Magnusson Klemencic Associates (MKA), where she gained experience in steel design through work on gravity connections. She is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Jeff Berman and Dr. Laura Lowes, investigating the use of hyperspectral imaging for detecting corrosion of structural steel and reinforcing steel embedded in concrete.

Hank Knight (MS, Student):  Hank Knight is a structural engineering graduate student in the CEE department at UW. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Washington in 2021. He is working with Dr. John Stanton and Dr. Richard Wiebe to study the stability of precast concrete girders during trucking and lifting.

John Paul (JP) Gaston (MS, Student): is a structural engineering graduate student at the University of Washington. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Washington in 2021. He is currently working with Dr. Travis Thonstad and Dr. Paolo Calvi experimentally investigating the combined use of distributed macro-synthetic fibers and deformed bar reinforcement to resist shear forces.

Muzi Zhao (PhD, Student): When he was an undergraduate student, Muzi Zhao worked as a structural engineer intern at Shenzhen Li Peng Structural Engineering Technology Co., Ltd. in 2013 and 2014. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2015, and continued to study in HIT as a PhD student until now. He researched in University of Washington (UW) as a visiting PhD student from 2019 to 2020.

Michelle Chang (MS, Student):  Michelle was an MS student studying structural engineering at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University (2016) with a joint focus on structures and architecture. From 2016 to 2018, Michelle worked as a project engineer for Kiewit at the Los Angeles Rams/Chargers Stadium, where she ran on-site precast concrete operations. She then worked with Professors John Stanton and Marc Eberhard on the High Speed Rail project.

Nicolette Lewis (PhD, Student): Nicolette is a graduate research assistant at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from California Polytechnic State University in 2017. After interning with Arup Group, she started at the University of Washington pursuing a MS in Structural Mechanics. She is currently working under the supervision of Dr. Marc Eberhard and Dr. Mike Motley investigating debris impact forces and consequent damming forces against coastal bridge structural systems during tsunami events. 

Spencer Lindsley (MS, Student): Spencer Lindsley is a graduate student at the University of Washington. He received his BSCE from the University of Maine in 2019. He is interested in bridge engineering. He plans to graduate in Spring 2021.

Donet Gonzalez (MS, Student): Donet is a graduate student in the Structural Engineering and Mechanics program at the University of Washington. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2023. His research with Professors Marc Eberhard and Jeffrey Berman focuses on the seismic performance of reinforced concrete bridge columns under long-duration earthquakes. He expects to graduate in June 2026.

Jakub Harasimczuk (MS, Student): Jakub Harasimczuk is a structural engineering graduate student at the University of Washington. He received his BSc in Civil Engineering from Reykjavik University in 2024. He is currently working on his M.S. thesis under the advisement of Dr. Marc Eberhard and Dr. Jeff Bermann, focusing on extending current modeling methods for seismic shear strength of older reinforced concrete bridge columns to account for the large amount of cycling that will occur during long-duration earthquakes.

Andres Sanchez(PhD, Student): Andres Sanchez is a Graduate Research Assistant and PhD student in Structural Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Washington. He received his Bachelors of Science in Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in 2024, and currently works with Dr. Marc Eberhard and Dr. Jeffery Berman. His research goal is to develop seismic fragility assessments of highway bridges in Washington State.

Taneum Luciani (BS, 2019): Beginning in 2018, Taneum was an undergraduate researcher in the Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Washington, with a concentration in structural engineering. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) in 2019. He contributed to an ABC research project on concrete-filled tube (CFT) pier–pile connections. The majority of his experimental work focused on instrumentation of test specimens, and he also conducted an individual research project investigating the fracture energy of concrete, a critical modeling parameter for systems that rely on bond and anchorage for force transfer. This work was conducted jointly with the National Science Foundation under the supervision of Professor Lehman.