John W. van de Lindt

Dr. John W. van de Lindt is the Harold H. Short Chaired Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. Over the last two-and-a half decades van de Lindt’s research program has focused on performance-based engineering and test bed applications of buildings and other systems for earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and floods. He has led teams for data collection following hazard events around the world and led the world’s largest shake table tests of full-scale buildings, and works to take results from research into practice including codes and standards.  Professor van de Lindt is the Co-director for the National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center of Excellence (COE) for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning headquartered at Colorado State University.  A major portion of the COE is to develop a computational platform IN-CORE to enable communities to measure their resilience to natural hazards.  Van de Lindt also serves as the Chief Scientist, Co-Founder, and Board Chair for ResiCore Inc, a start-up operationalizing IN-CORE for resilience planning.  He has served as Chair of a number of ASCE committees throughout the Structural Engineering Institute and Infrastructure Resilience Division.  He has published more than 550 technical articles including more than 280 journal papers and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.