 Director
Finley Charney
Charney is an expert in structural analysis and dynamics, with extensive experience in earthquake and wind engineering. With more than 2 decades of engineering firm experience, Charney's university research efforts involve behavior of structures with ground motion, passive energy dissipation, and graphic visualization technology.
Charney earned his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986.
Office: 105-D Patton Hall
E-mail: fcharney@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-1444
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 Associate Director
Jim Martin
An international expert in earthquake engineering, Martin directed the Earthquake Engineering Center for the Southeastern United States (ECSUS), which is now part of CELES. He is active in seismic hazard analyses and seismic hazard assessments of the Eastern and Central U.S., and served on the multinational team studying recent large earthquakes in Turkey. He has consulted with more than 30 engineering firms and agencies and has worked closely with FEMA in developing community education programs in hazard management.
Office: 111B Patton Hall
E-mail: jrm@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-3934
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 Samuel Easterling
Easterling is a structural engineering and materials expert with interest in composite girders, steel joists, concrete spans, composite construction, and partially restrained connections. He is active in design guidelines for wooden diaphragms for earthquake mitigation. He also serves as the lead civil engineer in Virginia Tech's multidisciplinary Center for Integrated Systems for Housing.
Office: Patton Hall 105-B
E-mail: seaster@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5143
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 Martin Chapman
Chapman is a seismologist with extensive experience in earthquake focal mechanisms, ground motion prediction, probabilistic seismic hazard assessment, and geological causes of earthquakes in the eastern United States. As a director of Virginia Tech's Seismological Observatory, Chapman collaborates with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Recent projects include ground motion prediction modeling for dams and bridges; interactive seismic hazard mapping; and seismic hazard assessments in Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi, and New York.
Office:1045 Derring Hall
E-mail: chapman@vtso.geol.vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5036
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 Muhammad Hajj
Hajj is a professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, an a wind and water damage expert. He specializes in the analysis, identification and modeling of fluid-structure interactions including breakwaters, wind forces on structures, atmospheric turbulence, water waves, and structure's vibrations.
Recent projects include nonlinear control of ship motion, nonlinear phenomena that lead to the flutter and breaking of an HSCT (High Speed Civil Transport) Flexible Semispan Model, and simulation in a wind tunnel of extreme wind suction of a building in Texas, including full-scale wind velocity and pressure coefficients.
Office: 332 Norris Hall
E-mail: mhajj@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-4190
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 Charles Bostian
Bostian is an electrical engineer and expert in wireless telecommunications, satellites, and business interactions. As founder of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications, Bostian was involved in many development projects, as well as Virginia Tech's purchase and licensing of a regional broadband sectrum.
Recently, Bostian has been developing wireless communications systems for emergency first-responders and for the U.S. Customs Service. He is part of a team developing a flexible and rapidly deployable broadband wireless network that can be moved into a disaster area and quickly integrated with surviving federal, state, and local fiber networks.
Office: 464 Whittemore
E-mail: bostian@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-5096
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