Judith Mitrani-Reiser

Judith Mitrani-Reiser is a senior research scientist in the Structural Systems Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Mitrani-Reiser is co-leader of the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) technical investigation of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, and leads the mortality project of the NCST investigation of the Hurricane Maria impact on Puerto Rico. Her responsibilities at NIST also extend to managing and providing oversight to other disaster statutory programs—the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program—focused on interagency coordination to reduce losses in the United States from disasters and failures. Mitrani-Reiser served as vice president of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute , serves on the executive committee of the U.S. Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures , co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers Multi-Hazard Risk Mitigation Committee, and was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. She earned her bachelor’s from the University of Florida, her master’s from the University of California, Berkeley, and her PhD from the California Institute of Technology.