Barbara G Simpson

Barbara G Simpson serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University's School of Engineering, where she develops innovative structural systems to enhance performance and mitigate natural hazard impacts on infrastructure.

Her research spans critical areas including:

• Resilient and Sustainable Design of Building Structures
• Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
• Offshore Renewable Energy Systems Engineering
• Next-Generation Computational Modeling
• Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Techniques
• Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis

Dr. Simpson leads an active research group employing advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural responses, with ongoing work focused on improving built environment resilience against natural disasters through her dedicated laboratory facility.