He completed his PhD at the University of Illinois �C Urbana Champaign in 2010. Before entering the PhD program, he worked as a practicing structural engineer for seven years designing buildings to resist earthquake motions in San Francisco, California. Dr. Eatherton’s research group is currently working on several research projects related to self-centering seismic systems, structural fuses made of perforated steel shear plates, ductile moment resisting frames, computational simulation of low cycle fatigue fracture, behavior and design of steel deck diaphragms to resist earthquake effects, and others.