Tracy Kijewski-Correa

University of Notre Dame

Tracy Kijewski-Correa is the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, where she also serves as co-director of the school’s Integration Lab and faculty fellow at several institutes focused on global development and real estate. As a professor of civil engineering and global affairs, her research seeks to enhance the resilience and sustainability of hazard-exposed communities, emphasizing developing holistic responses to infrastructure vulnerabilities and tools that support science-informed decision-making. She currently serves as the inaugural director of the National Science Foundation’s Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance network, mobilizing networks of engineers to assess disaster impacts globally. Her work on household recovery from disasters is currently centered on a National Academies consensus study on compounding disasters in the Gulf Coast and the 2021 Haiti earthquake. Her contributions have been recognized by awards from the American Society of Civil Engineering, American Political Science Association, Institution of Civil Engineers, International Association for Wind Engineering, and American Association for Wind Engineering. Kijewski-Correa is formally trained as a civil engineer, earning her bachelor of science, master of science, and doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.