Siyu Yu was awarded the 2023 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Early-Career Research Fellowship.
Dr. Siyu Yu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and a core faculty member with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Her experience spans land use, plan integration, and resilience issues in the United States, principally in the Gulf Coast region, as well as internationally in the Netherlands and Japan. Much of Dr. Yu’s current research focuses on the development, application, and extension of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS) evaluation methodology. She aims to increase multi-hazard resilience and social equity in an era of climate change by investigating relationships among community networks of land use and development plans and policies vis-à-vis social and physical vulnerability to natural hazards.
This prestigious fellowship supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on developing understanding and mitigation of factors that may amplify the compounding effects of disasters on the health and resilience of historically disadvantaged, overburdened, or marginalized communities.
