Ronaldo Luna, PE, PhD, D.GE
Saint Louis University / Luna Consulting, LLC
Professor and Senior Consultant
Dr. Ronaldo Luna is a professor of civil engineering at Saint Louis University, and he teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in the field of geotechnical and civil engineering. His research interests lie in the static and dynamic response of soils and liquefaction, geospatial information systems in civil engineering, advances in soil mechanics/foundations, and earthquake engineering. He was a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, for fifteen years after being at Tulane University. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering (1983) from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in geotechnical engineering (1985) from Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1995).
Dr. Luna is a key investigator at the Water Institute and an associate at the Taylor Geospatial Institute at Saint Louis University. Dr. Luna has practiced as a geotechnical engineer on the west coast and in the central US and currently practices both in the region and internationally. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Missouri, California, and Washington, and holds an active consulting practice. Additionally, he has published over 120 technical papers. Dr. Luna has been a Fellow with the American Society of Civil Engineers since 2007 and is certified as a Diplomate, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE) by the Academy of Geo-Professionals.
