Ali Nejat, Ph.D.
Director
Texas Tech University
Email: ali.nejat@ttu.edu
Dr. Ali Nejat serves as the director of CECREH, overseeing the coordination of projects
within the center and its administration. He also serves as Associate Academic Dean
of Undergraduate Studies in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering. He
is a Professor of Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University, where his research
focuses on modeling the dynamics of post-disaster housing and household recovery.
Additionally, Dr. Nejat investigates equitable community resilience in the face of
extreme natural hazards, such as hurricanes, flooding, and winter storms. His work
aims to explore and study resilience from the perspective of communities and their
inherent vulnerabilities. Dr. Nejat has received funding from various federal and
state agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, and the Texas Department of Transportation. Notably, his development
of an agent-based model of collective housing recovery earned him an NSF CAREER award
in 2015. His research has been published in numerous reputable disaster-related social
science and engineering journals.
Center of Excellence in Capacity-building for REsilient Housing
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Address
Texas Tech University, 2500 Broadway, Lubbock, TX 79409 -
Phone
806.834.4065 -
Email
CECREH@ttu.edu