John van de Lindt
Professor, Harold H. Short Endowed Chair
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.
van de Lindt led both the NEESWood and NEES-Soft project teams between 2005-2013 which consisted of two-story, four-story, and six-story shake table tests on the worlds largest shake tables, has conducted numerous field studies following hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and tsunamis around the world, and now serves as Vice Chair of ASCE’s Executive Committee for the Infrastructure Resilience Division.
Professor van de Lindt currently serves as the Co-director for the National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning headquartered at Colorado State University, a 12-university collaboration, and seeks to develop the computational environment needed to enable quantification of community resiliency to natural hazards.