Katya (Katerina) is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL), where she researches the impacts of pluvial and fluvial flooding on supply chains and emergency management. Her work enhances infrastructure system resilience and optimizes strategies for disaster response, operations, and logistics.
She holds a BSc in Structural Engineering from the Technion, an SM in Geotechnical Engineering from MIT, and a PhD in Systems Engineering from MIT. With experience in structural design for bridges and tunnels, water supply engineering, and climate resiliency modeling at MIT’s Office of Sustainability, she has developed methods to assess and mitigate flood hazards in urban and rural environments. During her PhD at MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub, she created predictive methods for quantifying infrastructure systems pluvial flood risks , focusing on road networks and underground structures under changing climate conditions.
