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Monica Kohler
Monica Kohler (PhD '95)
Research Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
Expertise
Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering; Seismology, Earthquakes, Community Seismic Network, Internet-of-Things (IoT) earthquake sensing
Profile
Kohler's research uses technological advances in sensor and internet-of-things developments to conduct real-time vibration monitoring of the ground, and mid-rise and high-rise buildings to study damage and failure events. She focuses on tomographic inverse methods and forward dynamic computations applied to observed and numerically simulated datasets due to earthquake, wind event, explosion, and human-generated vibration sources.
Languages Spoken
English;
Faculty Bio
A.B., Harvard University, 1988; Ph.D., Caltech, 1995. Assistant Research Engineer, University of California (Los Angeles), 1998-2011. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 2007-11; Lecturer, 2009, 2012, 2013; Research Assistant Professor, 2011-17; Research Professor, 2018-.
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Back in the 1960s, Charlie Richter (PhD '28) installed a seismometer in his living room. Now, if you live in the Pasadena area, you can have one, too.