2025 PEER Annual Meeting Speaker Bio: Ian Aiken is a Principal with SIE, Inc., in Berkeley, California, and the current President, of ASSISi, the Anti-Seismic Systems International Society.Ian has nearly 40 years of experience in earthquake, structural and civil engineering. His particular areas of expertise are seismic isolation and passive energy dissipation for seismic structural control, the seismic protection of high voltage electrical equipment, and the use of nonlinear analysis methods for structural analysis. He has worked on more than 100 seismic isolation and damping projects worldwide, and has published more than 140 technical papers, reports and articles on seismic isolation, energy dissipation and buckling-restrained brace technologies. Ian is a member of California, US national and international committees on isolation and energy dissipation, including ASCE, FEMA-BSSC, SEAOC, ASTM, ISO and IEEE committees. Updated March 2025.
