NHR3 Director Awarded UCLA's Public Impact Research Award

On June 2, 2023, Prof. Yousef Bozorgnia, NHR3 Director, was presented with UCLA’s Public Impact Research Award for his extensive contributions to seismic engineering and the quantification of earthquake hazards.

Yousef Bozorgnia (left) with UCLA Chancellor Gene Block (middle) and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt (right) at the award ceremony (Credit: Michael Troxell)

Dr. Yousef Bozorgnia is a professor of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3), at UCLA. Dr. Bozorgnia’s expertise includes earthquake engineering and ground motion hazard, with emphasis on multidisciplinary aspects of earthquake science and engineering. He has extensively published scientific papers on earthquake ground motion models, seismic hazard analysis, and structural earthquake engineering. Bozorgnia received his B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer (PE) in the State of California. He has been a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since 1998. In 2019, EERI, COSMOS and SSA jointly awarded Bozorgnia with the Bruce Bolt Medal for his extensive contributions to seismic hazard analysis and earthquake engineering. FULL BIO