Professor Anne Kiremidjian receives honorary doctorate

Please join us in congratulating CEE faculty member Anne Kiremidjian, the C. L. Peck, Class of 1906, Professor in the School of Engineering, who received an honorary doctorate at Aarhus University’s annual celebration on September 13, 2024. https://international.au.dk/about/profile/honorary-awards-and-grants/honorary-doctorates

“Receiving this honor is both humbling and deeply meaningful to me, and I will cherish it for the rest of my life,” says Prof. Kiremidjian in this portrait article on her appointment. https://lnkd.in/dvmJ_5fg. 

Prof. Kiremidjian graduated with a Master’s in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 1973 and went on to become the first woman at Stanford to gain a PhD in Structural Engineering in 1977. In 1991, she became the university’s first female professor of civil and environmental engineering. 

Throughout her career, she has focused on earthquake hazard, risk and resilience modeling, and the development of wireless sensing with damage diagnosis algorithms for structural health monitoring. Her research has helped protect societies all over the world and has been leading within earthquake protection and the health monitoring of structures.