Brad Wham

Brad Wham serves as a research assistant professor and managing director of the Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work leverages the capabilities of unique campus laboratories and collaboration with diverse researchers to conduct a wide range of experimental activities with academic and industry partners. His research focuses on improving our understanding of lifeline response to natural and man-made hazards through experimental, numerical, and post-event field assessment. Current work includes coupling geotechnical demands, physical testing, and numerical models of soil-structure interaction to assess system response to large ground movements, efforts which are aiding the development of national seismic design guidelines and testing standards for water and wastewater systems. Wham has served on international field reconnaissance teams in New Zealand (Christchurch) and Japan (Kumamoto & Hokkaido) to document infrastructure performance and lifeline system response to natural disasters. He was formally a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University’s Geotechnical Lifelines Large-Scale Testing Facility and holds PhD and master's degrees in geotechnical engineering and a master's of engineering in structural engineering from Cornell as well as a bachelor's in civil engineering from Virginia Tech.