Dr. Ezra Jampole is a Principal Engineer in Exponent’s Civil and Structural Engineering Practice, based in New York City. He specializes in evaluating the performance of structures subjected to extreme loads such as earthquakes, wind, and flood events and in performance-based analysis and risk assessments. He has served as a consultant on projects assessing the origin of damage and cause of collapse of structures following earthquakes, extreme weather events, adjacent construction incidents, corrosion and deterioration, settlement, and long-term issues.
Dr. Jampole has developed multi-hazard risk assessment frameworks to determine the risk of structures and components due to climate change. He has developed engineering-based quantitative risk analysis models of utility components for electric and gas transmission and distribution systems, including evaluating the risk due to contact with foreign objects and failures due to wind and earthquakes. He has evaluated the effectiveness of wildfire mitigations in reducing components failures that may lead to arcing and ignitions.
Dr. Jampole currently serves as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University, where he teaches a course on forensic structural engineering.