معرفی
Dr. Derya Deniz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ozyegin University, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. (2014) in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has formal academic training in structural collapse analysis under seismic and hydrological hazards. Her career spans postdoctoral research at Colorado State University and industry collaboration with Turkey's Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (DASK).
- Education
- B.S. in Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University (2006)
- M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008)
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014)
Dr. Deniz's research focuses on multi-hazard resilience for building systems and communities. She has developed methodologies for structural collapse modeling under earthquakes, flood loss analysis, and community recovery frameworks. Her work integrates disaster mitigation with sustainable building design, emphasizing business continuity and nonstructural losses.
Her recent research output (2020-2025) includes publications on hospital network resilience, industrial building recovery, and hybrid flood-landslide fragility models. These works demonstrate her expertise in interdisciplinary disaster response and regional risk modeling.
- Scientific Achievements
- Former Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow (2020-2022)
- Recipient of Royal Academy of Engineering funding
- Contributor to Turkish national disaster resilience programs
Dr. Deniz actively serves on ASCE committees (Infrastructure Resilience Division, Multi-Hazard Mitigation) and participates in technical review panels for journals and NIST. She has led field investigations post-Colorado floods (2013) and Türkiye earthquakes (2023), and created practical tools for flood insurance premium calculation and disaster recovery planning.
