Ning Lin *10 CEE
Professor, Mentor, Teacher
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Ning Lin is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton University, with affiliate appointments in the School for Public and International Affairs, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the High Meadows Environmental Institute and the Department of Geosciences. Her research spans natural hazards and risk analysis, wind and coastal engineering, and climate change impact and adaptation, with a primary focus on hurricane risk analysis. Lin integrates science, engineering and policy to study hurricane-related weather extremes — strong winds, heavy rainfall, coastal and compound flooding, and heatwaves — investigating how these hazards are evolving with climate change and how their societal impacts can be mitigated. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Science, Nature Climate Change and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lin has received prestigious honors, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award; Early Career awards from the American Geophysical Union; the Huber Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers; and the Walter Orr Roberts Lectureship from the American Meteorological Society.