Hi there!
I am an Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Utah State University. My research interests include mobility in disasters, transportation equity and justice, and unmet travel needs. My research takes an interdisciplinary and human-focused approach to engineering problems, combining qualitative approaches characteristic of the social sciences with quantitative methods like transportation simulation and travel behavior modeling. I also have experience using agent-based modeling, travel demand modeling, transportation health impact modeling, and econometric modeling to explore different aspects of sustainable transportation.
At Utah State, I am collaborating with several researchers at the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center on EV adoption and electrification resilience. I am also the faculty advisor for the student club USU Moves, a student branch of the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
I completed my Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of California, Davis, with an emphasis in transportation engineering. Before moving to Utah, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Vermont. I have a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and M.S. in Applied Economics, both from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In my free time I enjoy hiking with my dog, fly fishing, making ceramics, and foraging for culinary fungi.
Email: sarah.grajdura@usu.edu