John W. van de Lindt is the Harold H. Short Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. Over the last two 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 data collection efforts following hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes with the most recent being the December 2021 Midwest tornado outbreak.

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 in its tenth year.  A major portion of the COE is to develop a computational platform IN-CORE to enable communities to measure their resilience to natural hazards. He has published more than 450 technical articles and reports, including 250 journal articles.  He currently serves on a number of journal editorial boards worldwide and is the Editor-in-Chief for the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.