Sabine Loos

Sabine Loos is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she leads the Actionable Information for Disasters and Development (AIDD) Labs—a transdisciplinary group spanning engineering, urban planning, geography, and data science—and co-founded the Hazards, Risk, and Resilience graduate specialization. Her research applies data fusion, human-centered design, and risk analysis techniques to produce disaster risk information that supports equity-focused interventions both in the U.S. and internationally. To translate research into practice, she partners with organizations including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the World Bank, and the Government of Nepal. Her work has been recognized with the 2024 Jose Maria Sarriegi Catastrophe Research Award and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. She serves as Executive Guest Editor for the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction's special issue on equity-centered risk assessment, co-founded the Risk & Resilience DAT/Artathon, and co-organized the Understanding Risk Climate Data Field Lab. Prior to Michigan, she was a Mendenhall Fellow at the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the Natural Hazards Center. She holds a PhD from Stanford University (with research at the Earth Observatory of Singapore), an MS from Stanford, and a BS from Ohio State University.