The Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience was established in 2024 at Lehigh University to provide an interdisciplinary home for the scientific and educational activities of a large number of scholars who have been working on catastrophe modeling and resilience applied to natural disasters and health related threats.
Goals of the Center
Provide resources to increase the contributions of academic research in the general fields of catastrophe modeling and disaster resilience.
Advance research on catastrophe modeling topics that are more easily addressed in academic settings, such as insurance equity, open platforms and data for catastrophe modeling, ethical implications of disasters, and disaster research.
Provide a venue where private sector, public sector, and academia can cultivate synergies and grow fruitful collaborations to make catastrophe models more accurate, reliable, effective, and make our communities more resilient to the threats they face.
Serve as a hub for the interinstitutional Catastrophe Modeling Coordination Network which gathers other research teams in catastrophe modeling and resilience.
Pioneer the development of academic courses and academic degree programs in catastrophe modeling and resilience.
