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Shideh Dashti is a Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics at the º£½ÇÉçÇø (CU). She obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University in 2004 and graduate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. She worked briefly with ARUP and Bechtel on several engineering projects, spanning seismic design of underground structures, foundations, and slopes. Her research team studies: the interactions among infrastructure systems during earthquakes and environmental extremes; seismic performance of underground structures; triggering, consequence, and mitigation of liquefaction at local and regional scales; impact of compound hydrologic-seismic hazards on geotechnical infrastructure; and the intersection of resilience, environmental sustainability, and justice. She served as the director of the centrifuge facility and co-director of CIEST at CU º£½ÇÉçÇø between 2015 and 2022, and she continues to be a heavy user of CIEST capabilities in various research projects in collaboration with other researchers and students. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arthur Casagrande Award and the 2021 Walter Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE as well as the 2025 Distinguished Lecture Award from EERI.