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He has served in many national and international
committees and boards, including the President of Mexico’s
Advisory Council on Science; ACI, ASCE-IABSE and IASPEI
technical committees, UNESCO committees and missions toearthquake struck regions (Lima, 1966; Caracas, 1967;
Iran, 1990), among others. He is also an active participant
in a large number of Mexican, Latin American andinternational associations, as well as diverse academic andtechnical groups.

Educations:
Born in Mexico City in 1935, Dr. Esteva graduated as a Civil
Engineer in 1958 at the National Autonomous University ofMexico (UNAM); in 1959, obtained the degree of Master of
Science in Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT) and in 1968 a PhD degree in Engineering atUNAM.

Work experiences:Dr. Esteva started his research at the Institute of Engineering,
UNAM, in 1959. From 1982 to 1991 he was Director of theInstitute; from 1991 to 1993 he was Dean of Science of theUniversity; in 1969 he was a visiting Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1988 at theUniversity of Innsbruck (Austria) and in 2001-2002 at Stanford
University. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor at UNAM.

Awards:He has been the recipient of many national and international
awards and expressions of recognition, and has been
appointed as foreign correspondent of the academies ofengineering of several Latin American countries. In Mexico, hehas been a recipient of the highest prizes bestowed by theMexican Government (National Award on Sciences in the fieldof Design and Technology in 1981) and by UNAM (UNAM Awardin 1993). Since 1996 he is an Honorary Member of theInternational Association for Earthquake Engineering. Since
2000 he is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy ofEngineering of the United States.

Seismic Hazard Map in Mexico, 1960 – Peak Accelerations at Firm
Ground Sites, for Given Return Intervals

Academic and professional career of Prof. Esteva started
shortly after the earthquake that affected Mexico City in
1957, generating the largest economic and human losses thatthe city had ever experienced. This event fostered theinitiation of the development of Earthquake Engineering inMexico, as well as the academic career of Prof. Esteva. He
was selected to do this job when he was starting my career
as a researcher in UNAM.

Research activities of Prof. Esteva reflect his permanentinterest in contributing to the solution of many problems
faced by individual structural engineers and by bodies incharge of writing building codes and of preparing simple andefficient tools for the practice of structural design. His
permanent interest in the development of rational criteria forthe establishment of structural design requirements andsafety margins led to his involvement in the probabilistic
analysis of structural reliability and seismic hazard and risk.

He developed a set of probabilistic seismic hazard maps forthe whole country, starting from intensity attenuation
equations based on ground motion records obtained inCalifornia, because this type of information was not availablefor any site in the Mexican territory.

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Participating in IV WCEE, Santiago Chile, 1969

By 1969, he was recognized in Latin America, because of his
participation in many technical events in the region. In
particular, he acted as member of a UNESCO mission in
support of Venezuela, after the disastrous Caracas
earthquake of July 29, 1967. Because of this, he was invitedto present a keynote lecture in the IV WCEE, for which heproposed the title ”SEISMIC RISK AND SEISMIC DESIGNDECISIONS”

From 2002 to 2006 he served as President of the International
Association for Earthquake Engineering. In 2006 he wasappointed as Chairman of IFIP Working Group WG7.5 on
Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems.

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