Matthew DeJong, PhD

Matthew DeJong, PhD is a structural engineer and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Engineering at the University of Cambridge (see www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/struct/mjd). He studied civil engineering at UC Davis and has worked for a structural engineering design consultancy in California. He earned his PhD from MIT in 2009, where he focused on numerical modeling of masonry structures under earthquake loading. In 2007-2008, he was a Fulbright Scholar at TU Delft in the Netherlands and in 2009 he won the international Graduate Student Paper Competition from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the international Edoardo Benvenuto Prize from Italy for his research in mechanics and architecture.