DRRMVT

An NSF-sponsored Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program
in Disaster Resilience and Risk Management
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Faculty Members in Virginia Tech's Disaster Resilience and Risk Management (DRRMVT) Program

  • Dr. David Bieri
    Urban Affairs & Planning

  • Dr. Anamaria Bukvic
    Geography

  • Dr. Adam Coates
    Forestry


  • Dr. Margaret Cowell*
    Urban Affairs & Planning

  • Dr. Tina Dura
    Geosciences


  • Dr. Niyousha Hosseinichimeh
    Industrial & Sys. Engineering


  • Dr. Jennifer Irish*
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Sarah Karpanty
    Fish and Wildlife Conservation


  • Dr. Ioannis Koutromanos
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Jennifer Lawrence
    Political Science


  • Dr. Roberto Leon
    Civil & Environ. Engineering

  • Dr. Jeremi London
    Engineering Education


  • Dr. Guney Olgun*
    Geotech. Eng. - Missouri S&T

  • Dr. Freddy Paige
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Marie Paretti*
    Engineering Education
    DRRM Education Director


  • Dr. Annie Pearce
    Building Construction


  • Dr. Ryan Pollyea
    Geosciences


  • Dr. Liesel Ritchie
    Sociology


  • Dr. Adrian Rodriguez-Marek
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Todd Schenk
    Urban Affairs & Planning

  • Dr. Tripp Shealy
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Manoochehr Shirzaei
    Geosciences


  • Sharon Stacy
    Center for Coastal Studies
    DRRM Program Coordinator

  • Dr. Sarah Stamps
    Geosciences


  • Dr. Robert Weiss*
    Geosciences
    DRRM Program Director

  • Dr. Alba Yerro-Colom
    Civil & Environ. Engineering


  • Dr. Yang Zhang*
    Urban Affairs & Planning

  • Dr. Christopher Zobel*
    Business Info. Technology

* Member of the Executive Committee



Current DRRMVT Students

  • Kayleigh Addington
    Geography
    First year


  • Tolulope Adesoji
    Environ. Design and Planning
    First year


  • Mohammed Ba-Aoum
    Industrial & Sys. Eng.
    Third year


  • David Bruce
    Geosciences
    Second year

  • Mikayla Call
    Fish & Wildlife Conservation
    Third year

  • W. Paul Chilton
    Geosciences
    Second year

  • Ethan Conley
    Geosciences
    First year

  • Tiffany Cousins
    Planning, Gov., & Global.
    Fourth year

  • Jessica Deters
    Engineering Education
    Third year


  • Mehrnoush Farhadi
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    Second year

  • Wendell Grinton
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    Second year

  • Steven Hoagland
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    Third year

  • Catherine Jeffries
    Geosciences
    Fourth year


  • Ayda Kianmehr
    Planning, Gov., & Global.
    Third year


  • Janet Li
    Urban Affairs & Planning
    First year

  • Taylor Lightner
    Engineering Education
    Third year

  • Behnam Malmir
    Business Info. Technology
    Third year


  • Maya Menon
    Engineering Education
    Second year

  • Duygu Pamukçu
    Business Info. Technology
    Fourth year


  • Kase Poling
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    First year


  • Caroline Sharpe
    Forestry
    Second year

  • Sonam Sherpa
    Geosciences
    First year

  • Jaber Valinejad
    ECE & Computer Science
    Second year

  • Qiong Wang
    Planning, Gov., & Global.
    Fourth year


  • Maggie Webb
    Engineering Education
    First year


  • Karen Williams
    Geosciences
    Second year

  • Dillon Woods
    Public Administration
    Second year

  • Ruixiang Xie
    Planning, Gov., & Global.
    Fourth year

  • Nicole Zdrojewski
    Sociology
    First year


Past DRRMVT Students

  • Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    2019-2021

  • Anmol Haque
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    2018-2021


  • Jun-Whan Lee
    Civil & Environ. Engineering
    2018-2021

  • Laura Szczyrba
    Geosciences
    2018-2020

  • Luis Zambrano-Cruzatty
    Geotechnical Engineering
    2019-2021
Current DRRM Scholars
Aaron AkersPlanning, Governance, & GlobalizationFirst year
Tiffany CousinsPlanning, Governance, & GlobalizationFirst year
Jessica DetersEngineering EducationGraduate Assistant
Anmol HaqueCivil EngineeringFirst year
Catherine JeffriesGeosciencesFirst year
Michael LeeCivil EngineeringFirst year
Duygu PamukcuBusiness Info. TechnologyFirst year
Laura SzczyrbaGeosciencesFirst year
Qiong WangPlanning, Governance, & GlobalizationFirst year
Ruixiang XiePlanning, Governance, & GlobalizationFirst year
Contact Information
  • DRRMVT - 1068A Derring Hall
    1405 Perry Street
    Blacksburg, VA 24061
  • (540) 231 2334
  • drrm@vt.edu
Upcoming events
  • ISCRAM 2022

    May 22nd-25th, 2022

    19th annual conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management - Tarbes, France

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1735139

DRRMVT is a part of the Center for Coastal Studies at Virginia Tech

Additional support is provided by the Fralin Life Science Institute, and the Graduate School at Virginia Tech