Korhan Adalier, PhD

Korhan Adalier, Ph.D., is the Director of Florida State University Panama City (FSUPC) Engineering Programs, is a Teaching Professor and the Coordinator of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Program at FSU PC.  Before joining FSU PC in 2003, Professor Adalier served as a faculty of Civil Engineering at the Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy-NY).

Professor Adalier’s primary expertise lies in the areas of geotechnical engineering, soil mechanics, earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, ground improvement, and forensic engineering in natural and man-made earth structures.  Professor Adalier is an author or co- author of more than 100 technical publications in the fields of geotechnical and earthquake engineering.  He is a member of numerous technical associations and societies and a reviewer for ten different technical journals.  He is also a recipient of several professional awards including the Casimir Gzowski Medal (2005) by the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers.