Anne Kiremidjian

Anne Setian Kiremidjian is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.

Kiremidjian was born on August 11, 1949, in Sofia, Bulgaria. She earned her BA in physics from Queens College, City University of New York and BS in civil engineering from Columbia University. She then earned her MS and PhD from Stanford University.From 1987 to 2002 she served as the Co-Director and Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. Her research has focused on earthquake hazard as well as structural risk analysis.

In 2014, she was elected a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

She is the 2003 recipient of the Charles Martin Duke Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Award awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2018 recipient of the John Fritz Medal awarded by the American Association of Engineering Societies.

In October 2020, she was appointed as the next C.L. Peck, Class of 1906 Professor in the School of Engineering.

In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for research and dissemination of probabilistic seismic hazard methods and mentoring.