Dr. Jorge Macedo’s Laboratory

Welcome to the Macedo’s Laboratory at Georgia Tech

We are part of the geosystems group within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The main research areas of our group are geotechnical earthquake engineering, performance-based & risk engineering applied to natural and man-made multi-hazards (e.g., liquefaction, landslides, sea-level rise, flow failures in tailings dams), and mining geotechnics. Our research combines performance-based engineering, reliability, and machine learning tools with advanced numerical simulations, and novel experimental procedures to advance the fundamental understanding of the interactions between geo-hazards and geotechnical systems under extreme loading events and climate change stressors. We aim to make geotechnical infrastructure systems and cities more resilient, saving lives, and reducing economic losses.