Rice University's  Dr. Jamie Padgett will present a Distinguished Lecture:  From fragility and losses to risk mitigation at the nexus of waterfront industries and fenceline communities hosted by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences on Thursday, September 7th at the Watt Family Innovation Center. A reception will follow in the Watt Center atrium for faculty, students, and guests. 

Dr. Padgett is a Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering and  currently serves as Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University.

Padgett’s research focuses on the application of probabilistic methods for risk assessment of infrastructure, including the subsequent quantification of resilience and sustainability. Her work emphasizes structural portfolios such as regional portfolios of bridges or oil storage tanks exposed to multiple hazards, including earthquakes, hurricanes, or aging and deterioration.

She has published over 200 articles in journals or archived conference proceedings in the general area of structural response, reliability and life-cycle assessment. Dr. Padgett was the founding Chair of the ASCE/SEI technical committee on Multiple Hazard Mitigation and is an active member of several national technical committees within ASCE and TRB. She currently serves on editorial boards for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Natural Hazards Review, and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.