As terrorist attacks and natural disasters become more frequent and costly, the U.S. Office of the President is initiating a national push to create a more resilient society1-3 that can recover from these events and persevere. Resilience, as defined by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is the ability to plan and prepare for, […]
Author Archives: Daniel A. Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg is a Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering PhD Student in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. Previously, he was a contractor for the Risk and Decision Science Team of the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In both instances, Eisenberg’s primary research focuses on bridging conceptual gaps across scientific disciplines in reasilience theory, and developing methods to assess the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. Eisenberg is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including: a Fulbright Scholarship, a National Science Foundataion (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, and a NSF East Asia and Pacific Scholar Institutes Fellowship.