Community Resilience Group Leader & Program Manager in the Engineering Laboratory; Program Officer for the NIST sponsored Community Resilience Center of Excellence at CSU.
Leads research on resilience at the community scale, with a focus on the performance of physical infrastructure systems and how they support social and economic systems.
Expertise in structural reliability, risk assessment, and failure analysis, including studies of the World Trade Center disaster, Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, and Hurricane Sandy flood effects on infrastructure systems.
Expertise in the performance of structures in fire, including nonlinear finite element modeling of structural systems, nonlinear temperature-dependent material models, and thermally-induced failure modes.