RESEARCH INTERESTS: Interaction of extreme wind fields with the built environment, wind effects on civil infrastructure, cyber-physical modeling of civil infrastructure performance, structural design optimization

Pedro L. Fernández-Cabán is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. His research integrates experimental techniques, computational modeling, design optimization, and cyber-physical methods to enhance the performance of civil infrastructure under wind hazards. He has conducted extensive research in boundary layer wind tunnels and has also been involved in field experiments to characterize the near-surface wind field during landfalling hurricanes. Dr. Fernández-Cabán is a 2020 Fellow of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers Fellowship Program led by the Natural Hazards Center (NHC), and a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Structures) from the University of Florida in 2017, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 2013.