Ray & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering
Associate Professor
Office: Davis 777
Email: dejong ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu
Matthew DeJong is the Ray & Shirley Clough Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. DeJong’s research focuses on earthquake engineering and monitoring and modeling of civil infrastructure. Among these fields, he is particularly interested in aging infrastructure, renewable energy infrastructure, tunneling-induced structural damage, and masonry structures. He also serves as the PI and Co-Director of the NHERI SimCenter and Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure. Previously, he was a faculty member at Cambridge University for nine years.