Rate My Professor Catherine Van

Dr. Catherine Van serves as a Lecturer in the Malaysia School of Engineering at Monash University. She specializes in earthquake engineering, having earned her PhD in Structural Engineering (Earthquake Engineering) from Universiti Sains Malaysia on December 21, 2020, MSc in Civil Engineering (Earthquake Engineering) on September 17, 2014, and BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering on September 22, 2012, all from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Throughout her postgraduate studies, she worked as a Research Assistant and Research Officer on multiple research and consultancy projects.

With several years of professional experience in structural engineering practice at a leading multinational engineering consultancy firm in Malaysia, she contributed to prominent and prestigious projects, including those requiring earthquake design and analysis. In early 2024, she transitioned to academia as a Senior Lecturer specializing in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) before joining Monash University. Her research interests include seismology, earthquake engineering, structural dynamic analysis, seismic assessment and structural design, structural protection, repair, and rehabilitation, as well as earthquake engineering, seismic, dynamic analysis, structural rehabilitation, seismic assessment, and structural analysis. She serves as an Associate Investigator on the LITEFLOATCON project, Light-Weight High Performance Concrete for Modular Floating Structures, and is part of the Monash Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Research Hub, with research areas in earthquake engineering, structural resilience under seismic loading, and structural retrofitting and rehabilitation. Key publications include "Macro-modeling approach incorporating fiber plastic hinge for reinforced concrete frames with masonry infill" (Engineering Structures, 2022, co-authored with T. L. Lau and F. Mohamed Nazri), "Experimental Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Unreinforced Masonry Infills under Monotonic and Cyclic Loadings" (International Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021, with T. L. Lau), "Investigation of Brick Masonry Behaviour Under Uniaxial Compression Test at Different Scales" (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2020), "Selection of ground motion attenuation model for Peninsular Malaysia due to far-field Sumatra earthquakes" (Natural Hazards, 2016, with T. L. Lau and C. F. Mok), and "Modification of Published Prediction Model of Ground Motion due to Sumatra Subduction Earthquakes for the Application in Peninsular Malaysia" (Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2015).