Dr. John W. van de Lindt will present a lecture titled “Resilience-Informed Guidance through Modeling and Interdisciplinary Field Studies” at 11 a.m. Monday, April 19, via Zoom.

He is the Harold H. Short Endowed Chair Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-director for the National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center of Excellence (COE) for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning at Colorado State University,

Over the last two decades, Van de Lindt’s research program has focused on performance-based engineering and test-bed applications of building and other systems for earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and floods. He has published more than 400 technical articles and reports including more than 200 journal papers, and currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Structural Engineering.

For more information about the lecture, contact Dr. Genda Chen, the Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Chair in Civil Engineering, at gchen@mst.edu.

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