John van de Lindt, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, August 31, 2012

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.  

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Research Interests

Over the last two decades, van de Lindt’s research program has sought to improve the built environment and the social and economic institutions that infrastructure supports perform to the level expected, and sought after, by the public.  This has been primarily through projects focusing on hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and floods.

He has published more than 400 technical articles including more than 185 archival journal papers.

  • Environmental and Energy Systems
  • Infrastructure Systems
  • Water Engineering and Science

Education

  • B.S. 1993, California State University – Civil Engineering
  • M.S. 1995, Texas A&M University – Civil Engineering
  • Ph.D. 1999, Texas A&M University – Civil Engineering

Other appointments

  • Co-director, NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning

Highlighted Honors and Awards

  • 2019 – Elected Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 2018: Best Paper Award, ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering; with Christine Standohar-Alfano (Lead author), and Eric Holt.
  • 2018-Present: Harold H. Short Endowed Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2017: Best Journal Paper in Structural Hazards, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering; with Navid Attary (Lead author), and Vipin Unnikrishnan, Dan Cox, and Andre Barbosa.
  • 2017: Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, “For his influential work to advance the understanding of the performance of wood buildings under extreme hazard loading”.
  • 2019 – Elected Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 2018: Best Paper Award, ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering; with Christine Standohar-Alfano (Lead author), and Eric Holt.
  • 2018-Present: Harold H. Short Endowed Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2017: Best Journal Paper in Structural Hazards, ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering; with Navid Attary (Lead author), and Vipin Unnikrishnan, Dan Cox, and Andre Barbosa.
  • 2017: Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, “For his influential work to advance the understanding of the performance of wood buildings under extreme hazard loading”.
  • 2017: Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2015: Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2015: Raymond C. Reese Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers; Awarded for tsunami loading on woodframe walls experimental work
  • 2014: Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University
  • 2014: Elected Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers.
  • 2013: Outstanding Dissemination of NEES Research Award, George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), NEEScomm.
  • 2012-2018: George T. Abell Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering, Colorado State University.
  • 2012: Raymond C. Reese Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers
  • 2011:- Guest of Honor, International Conference on Earthquake Analysis and Design of Structures
  • 2010: Outstanding Contribution to Research Award, International Conference on Earthquake Analysis and Design of Structures
  • 2008: Outstanding Faculty Award, Civil Engineering Department
  • 2008: George T. Abell Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award, College of Engineering
  • 2007: Foreign Expert in Wood Engineering, NIED
  • 2006: Faculty Excellence in Research Award, Civil Engineering Department
  • 1998: International Offshore Mechanics Scholarship, International Conference on Earthquake Analysis and Design of Structures
  • 1997,1995: Dupont Scholarship for Civil Engineering, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University
  • 1996 – Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship, Dwight Look College of Engineering, Texas A&M University