Dr. Ronaldo Luna joined Saint Louis University in 2014 as Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering.  He teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the field of geotechnical engineering.  His research interests lie in the dynamic response of soils and liquefaction, geographic information systems in civil engineering, and advances in foundation and earthquake engineering.

He was a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, MO, for fifteen years.  Previously he was an assistant professor at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.  He obtained his BSCE 1983, from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, and MSCE 1985 from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and his PhD 1995 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He was Post–Doctoral Fellow in 1995 at the Georgia Tech. Between his graduate degrees he practiced as a geotechnical engineer in the states of California and Washington and internationally.  He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Missouri, California, and Washington.