Jennifer L. Schneider, CIH
Professor of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Senior Director, Curriculum Integration, Office of the Provost Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking Principal, Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery
BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Schneider, CIH is the Eugene H. Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking and a professor in Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management and Safety at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY USA. She also leads the Collaboratory for Resiliency & Recovery @ RIT, a multidisciplinary research group that specializes in the data to decision pipeline for community resilience. She earned her Sc.D. from UMASS Lowell, College of Engineering, her MS in Industrial Hygiene from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and her BA in Comprehensive Science from Roberts Wesleyan. Prior to coming to RIT, Dr. Schneider worked her way up corporate EHS for Kodak, Mobil and ITT/Goulds, She also has served as an incident commander and trainer for local HAZMAT team. Her research interests include hazardous material control, critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management, multidimensional sustainability and analysis of sector based corporate sustainability and resilience related activities. She also studies exposure assessment particularly hazardous material emergencies and response planning. Dr. Schneider served on a US TAG subcommittee for ISO 37101- Community Sustainability (Resilience) and is a member of ASTM F23 (PPE) and the National Academy of Sciences- standing Committee on PPE. After her volunteer experience on the NY Respond Commission after NY’s Hurricane Sandy, Dr. Schneider worked on leveraging the form and function of engaging infrastructure to support broader community resilience, including the hospitality industry.
Workshop: Research Funding: Hard nut to crack?
Professor Levent Altinay will share his experience of successful funding applications to the prestigious funding bodies including EU, Horizon, ESRC (Economic Social Research Council), Newton, British Academy, British Council and TUBITAK. During the workshop, Altinay will cover a wide range of topics including creative idea generation for research funding, formation of multidisciplinary research consortiums, use of networks, research design, dissemination of research findings and the generation of academically robust, practically meaningful research impact.