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Biography
Rae Zimmerman is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, following a full-time tenured professorship, and currently directs NYU-Wagner’s Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems. She is an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, past president and Fellow of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), recipient of two SRA awards: Distinguished Achievement (2019) and Outstanding Service (2015), and has held appointments to TRB standing committees, currently to the Standing Committee on Systems, Enterprise and Cyber Resilience (AMR40), formerly with the Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (ABR10), and had two prior appointments to the NYC Panel on Climate Change. Her authored or co-edited books include “Urban Infrastructure” co-edited with J. Heathcott and J. Soffer (2022), “Transport, the Environment and Security” (2012), several other authored or co-edited books, and 200 other publications on social, economic and physical dimensions of infrastructure systems and their vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change. Her research has been supported by over four dozen research grants where she was principal investigator or co-principal investigator most recently on infrastructure interdependencies, material exposure to climate conditions, sustainability, COVID-19 and infrastructure adaptations, and risk communication. URL:http://wagner.nyu.edu/zimmerman; B.A. Chemistry (U. of California, Berkeley), Master of City Planning (U. of Pennsylvania), and Ph.D in Planning Columbia University.

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