Matthew R Kuhn is a Professor of Civil Engineering. He obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. He has worked as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Portland from1987 to 1993 then as an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1993 to 2005 and has worked since 2005 as a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Portland. His research interests are Geotechnical Engineering, with emphasis in granular mechanics, constitutive modeling and material instabilities.