Ramla Qureshi

Dr. Ram­la Qureshi’s research focus lies in struc­tur­al resilience against extreme haz­ards; such as earth­quakes, fires, and blasts; and includes imple­men­ta­tion of advanced com­pu­ta­tion­al and exper­i­men­tal mechan­ics for eval­u­at­ing the per­for­mance of struc­tures under these severe load­ing con­di­tions. She works on risk assess­ment and uncer­tain­ty quan­tifi­ca­tion in mate­r­i­al behav­ior, algo­rithm devel­op­ment and pro­gram­ming, large scale sim­u­la­tions of struc­tur­al behav­ior, and finite ele­ment mod­el­ing of defor­ma­tions under the above-men­tioned loads.

Dr. Qureshi is a recip­i­ent of the pres­ti­gious Ful­bright Schol­ar­ship, the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Uni­ver­si­ty Women Doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship, and the MDRF Research Grant. Dr. Qureshi found­ed Women Engi­neers Pak­istan (WEP) in 2013; a grass-roots orga­ni­za­tion cat­alyz­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion and enabling reten­tion of women in STEM fields. For her work in advanc­ing STEM edu­ca­tion through WEP, she was cho­sen as a Glob­al Final­ist for “Sci­ence Engage­ment Break­through of the Year Award” at the 2020 Falling Walls Con­fer­ence, Berlin.