Fernando Patino Ramirez

Fernando Patino Ramirez is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Patino Ramirez earned BSc (2015) and MSc (2016) degrees in Civil Engineering from the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and MSc (Computer science & Engineering) and PhD (Geosystems) degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2020). After completion of his PhD, Dr. Patino Ramirez joined the Geotechnics section at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher, and later a teaching and research fellow. In addition, Dr. Patino Ramirez worked as a geotechnical engineer in Colombia and the United States and as an entrepreneur, working in climate mitigation and adaptation related ventures.

Dr. Patino Ramirez has expertise in the areas of geomechanics, in-situ testing, trenchless methods, earth structures and foundations for offshore applications. In his research, Dr. Patino Ramirez combines physical reduced scale modeling and numerical methods (DEM and FEM), with computational algorithms and novel instruments and measurement devices.