Welcome to the personal website of Samuel Yniesta. I am an Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal (Montréal, Canada), in the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering. This website summarizes my research and teaching activities in the fields of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering.
About Me:
I grew up in France in Saint-Etienne, and completed the first half of my bachelors degree in Lyon at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie Lyon 1 (IUT A Lyon 1) and then continued my studies in Paris at the Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP). While completing my bachelors degree, I studied Civil Engineering with a focus on Public Works. In 2012 I obtained a Master of Science at UCLA in Geotechnical Engineering, after which I immediately started my Ph.D. under the supervision of Scott Brandenberg.
During my Ph.D. I worked on centrifuge tests of levees atop peaty organic soil, and on constitutive modeling of soils under dynamic loading. After completing my Ph.D. in March 2016, I immediately started my position at Polytechnique Montréal.
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, 06/2022 – Present
Previous Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, 05/2016 – 06/2022
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 09/2012 – 03/2016
Education:
Ph.D. Civil Engineering (2016) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M.S. Civil Engineering (2012) – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
M. Ing. Public Works (2012) – Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics (ESTP)
D.U.T. Civil Engineering (2009) – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – Institut Universitaire de Technologie A
Awards:
Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award (2022) – Awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers
Shah Family Innovation Prize (2021) – Awarded by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Professional Affiliations:
Professionnal Engineer – Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec
Member of the multi-institutional strategic research cluster dedicated to the safety of civil engineering structures subjected to extreme effects induced by natural hazards – CEISCE (since 2018)
Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance association – GEER (since 2017)
Canadian Geotechnical Society – CGS (since 2016)
Canadian Association of Earthquake Engineering – CAEE (since 2017)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute – EERI (since 2015)
American Society of Civil Engineers – ASCE (since 2015)
Contact Me:
Email: samuel.yniesta@polymtl.ca
Mail: Office B-336.1
2900 boul. Édouard-Montpetit
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4
Canada
Phone Number: +1 514-340-4711 ext. 4259
