Dr. Beena Ajmera is an early career female engineering faculty who has a proven record of publications achieved through the support of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) and numerous other fellowships and scholarships including the Charles E. Via Doctoral Fellowship, Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship twice and the U.S. Society of Dams scholarship. She has published more than 100 journal and conference papers, of which nearly 55% of her publications are related to geotechnical issues faced during natural disasters including earthquakes, wildfires and landslides. A complete list of the Dr. Ajmera’s publications can be found on her webpage (https://www.ndsu.edu/faculty/ajmera/). Dr. Ajmera has also been invited to deliver over a dozen presentations describing her findings at various venues. Moreover, her work has received regional, national and international attention resulting in several awards including the Oldrich Hungr Award from the International Consortium on Landslides in 2021, the 2020 ASCE Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award, the 2020 ASCE Collingwood Prize 2018 Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Educator and Best Paper Awards at GeoShanghai 2018 and Dam Safety 2014. Dr. Ajmera is also a Technical Committee Member for the “Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Committee” and the “Embankments, Dams, and Slopes Committee” of American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Geo- Institute, an editor for the journal “Landslides,” an Associate Editor for Volume 4 of the Fifth World Landslide Forum, was an Associate Editor for Volume 2 of the Fourth World Landslide Forum, and regularly serves as a session chair at national and international conferences related to slope stability and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

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Beena Ajmera, Ph.D., P.E.
Email: bajmera@iastate.edu
​​​​​​​Phone: (515) 294-2417

Sarah Crary, Ph.D.
Email: sarah.crary@ndsu.edu
Phone: (701) 231-5498