Renmin Pretell, Ph.D.

Education

• PhD, University of California, Davis, CA, 2022
• MS, University of California, Davis, CA, 2019
• BS (Summa Cum Laude), Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI), Peru, 2012

Employment history

• 08/2023 – Present     Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
• 10/2022 – 07/2023   Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
• 09/2017 – 09/2022   Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Davis, CA
• 09/2015 – 08/2017   Project Engineer, Golder Associates, Denver, CO
• 01/2013 – 08/2015   Staff Engineer, Golder Associates, Peru

Honors and awards

• 2025 International Research Seed Funding Competition, CTBUH, 2025
• ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, ASCE, 2025
• DesignSafe Dataset Award, NHERI, 2024
• Earthquake Spectra Outstanding Reviewer, EERI, 2023
• Building Future Faculty, NCSU, 2022
• Haley & Aldrich Diversity and Equity essay contest winner, 2021
• Patrick C. Lucia Geotechnical Engineering Scholarship, 2019
• Excellence Rating on thesis defense, UNI, 2014
• Top Student 2012-I, UNI, Rank: 1/120, 2012
• Best Research Project 2012, UNI, 2012
• Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo Scholarship, UNI, 2010