PEER Annual Meeting 2023 Speaker Bio: Dr. Buckle is a Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada Reno. He is a former director of the UNR Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research and the UNR Structural Engineering Laboratories. He earned his bachelor and doctoral degrees at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Buckle’s research interests include improving the seismic performance of highway bridges, design and retrofit criteria for bridges, earthquake protective systems, tsunami loads, and soil-structure-interaction for bridges with deep foundations. In addition to teaching graduate courses in these topics, he participates in short courses for design professionals in the seismic design of new bridges, retrofitting of existing bridges and the seismic isolation of new and existing bridges. Dr. Buckle is currently chair of Caltrans' Seismic Advisory Board and a Member of PEER's Institutional Board. Updated July, 2023.