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Brand Research Group

Alexander S. Brand, Ph.D., P.E., is an assistant professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining VT in August 2018, Dr. Brand was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Materials and Structural Systems Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD. He received his B.S. (2010), M.S. (2012), and Ph.D. (2015) degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia.
Current Ph.D. Students


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Thomas Carnes

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Current M.S. Students
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Mohammad Owais Ahmad



Former Students
Former Ph.D. Students
- Ebenezer Fanijo, Ph.D. (CEE), 2022
Former M.S. Students
- Michael Lowry, M.S. (CEE), 2022
- Douglas Annand, M.S. (CEE), 2022
- Paul Atwood, M.S. (CEE), 2022
- Elizabeth Bise, M.S. (CEE), 2022
- Ebenezer Fanijo, M.Eng. (MSE), 2022
- Shivani Agrawal, M.S. (CEE), 2022
- Laurie Metzler, M.S. (CEE), 2021
- Donald DeMartino, M.S. (CEE), 2021
- T. Trevor Painter, M.S. (CEE), 2020
- Morgan C. Jenkins, M.S. (CEE), 2019
Former Visiting Scholars
- Ali Aghajanian, University of Cantabria, 2022
Former Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Dr. Amir Behravan, 2020-2022
Former Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Alexander Zhao (CEE), 2022
- Mitchell Davis (CEE), 2022
- Anketse Zewdu, MAOP Program, Summer 2022
- Sean Li (CEE), 2022
- Matt deJong (MSE), 2021
- Emily Schwab (MSE), 2019
- Nicole MacCrate (MSE), 2019
Research Group Photos
Graduation December 2022

End of Year Social

Concrete Wall Inspection, May 2022
