Acknowledgments
Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No . 2041666 . The opinions expressed by the authors are their own .
Author Capsule Bios
David Mendonça is a Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , USA , where he also holds an appointment in the Cognitive Science Department . He has published extensively on human response to disaster . His work has been supported through numerous grants from the U . S . National Science Foundation ( NSF ), most recently as Principal Investigator of the Operations and Systems Engineering for Extreme Event Research ( OSEEER ) network . He is a Senior Member of IEEE .
José Orlando Gomes is a Professor in Industrial Engineering and Graduate Program in Informatics ; Associate Dean for International Affairs to BRICS Countries of the Polytechnic School , Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; and also holds positions at University of Florence , Italy ; Tsinghua University , China ; and University of Witwatersrand , South Africa . He currently serves as Vice-President & Treasurer of the International Ergonomics Association .
Ann-Margaret Esnard is a Distinguished University Professor of Public Management and Policy , and the Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University , USA . She has been involved in a number of research initiatives , including NSF-funded projects on population displacement from catastrophic disasters , school recovery after disasters , long-term recovery , and community resilience .
Tracy Kijewski-Correa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences and in the Keough School of Global Affairs at Notre Dame University , USA . Her research is dedicated to enhancing the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure in response to the challenges posed by increased urbanization and hazard vulnerability . She is the inaugural director of the NSF-funded Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance ( StEER ) network .
Julio A . Ramirez , Fellow of the American Concrete Institute ( ACI ), is the Karl H . Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering of Purdue University , USA . He is Director of the Network Coordination Office of the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure ( NHERI ) and is a member of Joint ACI-ASCE Committees 408 , Bond and Development of Steel Reinforcement , and 445 , Shear and Torsion . He received the ACI Delmar Bloem Award in 2000 and the Joe W . Kelly Award in 2006 .
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