Richard Regueiro received his PhD in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University in 1998. He then became a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, California, from 1998 to 2005, at which time he began his academic career in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is currently an associate professor. His research focuses on computational multiscale multiphysics materials modeling for simulating inelastic deformation and failure in heterogeneous porous media, including saturated and partially saturated soils and rock, unbound particulate materials (e.g. sand, gravel, metallic powders), bound particulate materials (e.g., sandstone, asphalt, concrete, explosive materials), soft biological tissues (e.g., ocular lens tissue, lung parenchyma, vertebral disk), and thin deformable porous materials and membranes.