Jamie Padgett

Jamie E. Padgett is the Stanley C. Moore endowed chair and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Padgett’s research focuses on multi-hazard risk assessment and the subsequent quantification of resilience and sustainability. Her work emphasizes structural portfolios and distributed infrastructure systems, such as industrial, energy, or transportation infrastructure under chronic and acute stressors. She has published over 200 articles in journals or archived conference proceedings in the general area of structural response, reliability and life-cycle assessment. Padgett was the founding chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers's (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute technical committee on multiple hazard mitigation. She currently serves on the leadership of ASCE’s Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability, and Risk of Structural and Infrastructure Systems.

Padgett is an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Natural Hazards Review, and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. Padgett has received several awards and recognitions including Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute (2020), Engineering Mechanics Institute Objective Resilience Distinguished Lecturer (2019), the ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize (2017). Among other projects, Padgett currently serves in leadership roles within several large national research efforts, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NSF)-funded Center of Excellence for Community Disaster Resilience and the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Cyberinfrastructure “DesignSafe-CI”.