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Contact: derya.deniz@ozyegin.edu.tr
Dr. Derya Deniz is currently a faculty member (since 2017) and a former Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow (2020-2022) in the Department of Civil Engineering at Ozyegin University, Turkey. She has been awarded the title of Assoc. Professor by Central University Administration of Turkiye, starting in June, 2024.
Regarding her education, she graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU, Ankara) with her B.S in Civil Engineering. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in USA. In her doctoral dissertation, she worked on seismic collapse risk assessment of building frames. After completion of her Ph.D. study, she first joined the University of Colorado and then Colorado State University in USA to work as a research associate for three years to assess flood damage of several structures affected by the Colorado and North Carolina floods.
Since Dr. Deniz joined Ozyegin University in 2017, she has coordinated and involved in several national and EU research projects to develop disaster loss and resilience models for building portfolios. She is currently giving consulting service to the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP; DASK in Turkish) in the development of flood insurance premiums for Turkey. She is also currently reviewer for several journals and an active committee member for ASCE-Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD), ASCE SEI Multi-hazard Mitigation, and NIST Community Resilience Panel. She has main research interests on flood loss and risk analysis, earthquake engineering, disaster mitigation, resilient and sustainable building design, multi-hazard impacts, nonstructural disaster losses and business interruptions, and risk-based decision-making.
Dr. Deniz’s academic background and multi-disipliniary research experiences have given her new perspectives and have inspired research ideas of her own regarding resilient infrastructure and communities against multi-hazard events. Her academic goals are first, to share and expand her expertise to develop a better understanding of impacts of natural hazards, and second, to develop rigorous design approaches that will mitigate these hazards and contribute to the broad goal of societal risk management. Moreover, she seeks to educate and train young engineers that are more globally engaged in research and practice, and to develop new courses incorporating the most recent research in the field through an interdisciplinary setting.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Structural collapse models, earthquake engineering, flood loss and risk analysis, multi-hazard performance, nonstructural hazard losses, post-disaster recovery modeling, business interruptions, disaster resilience of industrial facilities, resilient and sustainable building design, uncertainty quantification, risk-based decision making, disaster mitigation.
