Center for Extreme Events Research at UC San Diego / website launch

The Center for Extreme Events Research at the Jacobs School of Engineering is focused on advancing the engineering research essential to protect critical infrastructure and bio-systems from extreme hazardous events.

Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen is the Director of the Center for Extreme Events Research at UC San Diego. Chen holds the William Prager Endowed Chair in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego. He is Editor-in-Chief of Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics: an International Journal.

The Center for Extreme Events Research is the second "agile center" to be launched at the Jacobs School of Engineering under the leadership of Dean Albert P. Pisano. (Learn about Pisano's vision for agile centers at the Jacobs School here.)