Ross Corotis
NAE, Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Dean Emeritus
University of Colorado - Boulder

Ross Corotis, NAE, is Professor of Engineering Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He researches the coordinated roles of engineering and social science in framing and communicating long-term hazard risks and resiliency for the built environment. With three degrees from MIT, he was on the faculty at Northwestern University, established the Department of Civil Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and was Dean of Engineering at CU. He chaired committees on structural safety for ASCE and ACI and the Executive Committee of IASSAR, served as science advisor for the Department of State in Washington, DC. and was Editor of the journals Structural Safety and ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. For The National Academies he served on the Building Research Board, the Disasters Roundtable, the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, chaired the Laboratory Assessment Board, was founding chair of the Committee on NIST Technical Programs, and Chair of the Civil Engineering Section of the NAE. He is a registered professional engineer and structural engineer, Distinguished Member of ASCE, Fellow of the Structural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Institutes, recipient of the ASCE Huber, Shinozuka and OPAL Awards, and author of more than 250 publications.