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Dr. Amit H. Varma
Karl H. Kettelhut Endowed Professor |
Bio-Sketch:
Dr. Varma is originally from Mumbai, India. He received his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay in 1994. He received his M.S. in civil engineering (structures) from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1996. He completed his Ph.D. in civil engineering (structures) from Lehigh University in 2001. He joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. in 2001.
He joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering in August 2004. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Full Professor in 2014. He was appointed Associate Director of Bowen Laboratory in 2015, and since 2017 he has been serving as the Director of the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research.
In Fall 2018, he was ratified as the Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering. Since 2023, he has been serving as the Executive Director of the Infrastructure & Innovation Lab in Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI), a fully owned 501(c)(3) subsidiary of Purdue University
Prof. Varma has dedicated his academic and professional life to the development of innovative steel-concrete composite structures for the built infrastructure including commercial and residential buildings, and industrial structures such as nuclear power plants. He has conducted fundamental research including large-scale experimental investigations and numerical analyses to evaluate and improve the structural behavior of steel-concrete composite members, connections and overall structural systems subjected to various extreme loading conditions including seismic, fire, blast, and missile impact loading...