About Me
I am an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University. My research focuses on infrastructure resilience: how transportation and other civil infrastructure systems perform during hazards, disruption, and institutional stress, and how those systems shape people’s safety, mobility, and post-disaster recovery.
I use mixed methods to study these questions, combining quantitative modeling approaches with qualitative and community-engaged research. My work spans topics including wildfire evacuation, flood recovery, transportation equity, electric vehicle charging, and emerging infrastructure systems. Across these areas, I am interested in how people experience infrastructure under stress and how planning, governance, and engineering decisions shape safety, reliability, and post-disaster recovery.
I serve as Associate Editor for Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives and as a Fellow in the NSF Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards Researchers Program.
Email: sarah.grajdura@usu.edu
Updated March 2026