Pooria Mazaheri

Pooria Mazaheri is a PhD student in civil, construction, and environmental engineering at Iowa State University, where his research focuses on infrastructure resilience under extreme wind hazards. His work integrates large-scale experimental testing, nonlinear finite element modeling, probabilistic risk assessment, surrogate modeling, and fatigue reliability analysis to evaluate the performance of electrical transmission systems exposed to tornadoes, thunderstorms, and other high-wind events. He is particularly interested in translating advanced structural and hazard modeling into practical tools for risk-informed inspection, maintenance, and resilience planning. Mazaheri also serves as Chair of Research for the National Science Foundation Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Graduate Student Council, where he helps organize research programming and interdisciplinary engagement among early-career natural hazards researchers. His broader goal is to support hazard-resilient infrastructure systems that are technically rigorous, operationally useful, and responsive to the needs of communities and decision-makers.