Hurricanes and earthquakes: An interdisciplinary, systems approach to understanding and managing disaster risk
On November 13th, the department of Systems Design and Engineering (SYDE) will be hosting Prof. Rachel Davidson. Prof. Davidson is a core member of the Delaware Disaster Research Center, the first center dedicated to the study of disasters in the world.
Waterloo students are invited to participate in the following events:
Student Meeting:
Thursday, Nov 13th @ 1:00pm - 2:30pm (room: E7-Faculty Hall)
Opportunity for students to learn more about Rachel’s research, brainstorm research gaps for their own work, and learn more about the prospective careers in this field (as researcher or practitioner).
*Students should be prepared to engage in the conversation, not just attend.
Seminar: Hurricanes and earthquakes: An interdisciplinary, systems approach to understanding and managing disaster risk
Thursday, Nov 13th @ 2:30pm (room: E7-Faculty Hall); Open to all
Rachel Davidson's Biography
Rachel Davidson is Chair of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering; the Donald C. Phillips Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and a core faculty member in the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. She is also PI of the NSF-funded Coastal Hazards, Economic prosperity, and Resilience (CHEER) Hub and a member of the NHERI Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter). She is a Fellow and Past-President of the Society for Risk Analysis, winner of the ASCE Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award (2019), member of the National Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR), and a fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE at Drexel) program (2015-2016).
Prior to joining UD in 2007, Davidson held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was also Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University (2006-7), Visiting Professor and Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand (2013-14) and Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2022). Davidson earned her B.S.E. from Princeton University and M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She conducts research on natural disaster risk modeling and civil infrastructure systems.