Divya Chandrasekhar is an associate professor in the department of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, with expertise in community recovery from disasters. Her research has examined post-disaster community participation and capacity building, networking and coordination among recovery institutions, and disaster recovery policy in South and Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and the United States. Chandrasekhar's research has been funded by National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Transportation and Communities, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Natural Hazards Center.
Chandrasekhar is a member of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission, the Utah State Hazard Mitigation Team and the Learning From Earthquakes Business Resilience Survey Working Group of Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. She holds a master's and PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.