Research Team

Graduate Researchers

  • Lianne Brito

      • MS-PhD Student (Geotech)

  • Hailey-Rae Rose

      • MS-PhD Student (Geotech-Structures)


  • David Kyle Anderson

      • MS Student (Structures)

  • Adan Salvador Camacho

      • MS Student (Structures)

  • Cory Ihnotic

      • MS Student (Structures)

  • Erin Nebel

      • MS Student (Geotech)

Undergraduate Technicians

  • David Balcells

  • Lindsay Guerrero

  • Proter Hawkins

  • Haley Parnell

  • Jessica Ramos

  • Joelle Westcott


  • Hiral Gandhi (former)

  • Sophie Chumakova (former)

  • Michael Nietes (former)

  • Maddison Philips (former)

  • Lauren Strand (former)

  • Eric Sipocz (former)

  • Aldrich Valerian (former)

CIEST Research Staff


Brice Lucero, Project Manager

Katherine O'Dell, Project Engineer

John Hindman, Engineering Technician

Kent Polkinghorne, Technical Specialist

Jaroslav Hruby, Visiting Scholar/ Experimental Consultant

Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing

Principal Investigator

Brad Parker Wham, Ph.D.

Assistant Research ProfessorManaging Director of Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering University of Colorado Boulder1111 Engineering Drive UCB 428ECOT 441Email: Brad (dot) Wham (a) colorado (.) edu

Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing