Maria Garlock

Maria Garlock is the Daniel Tsui Professor in Engineering at Princeton University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research focuses on sustainable, resilient cities and infrastructure systems, mechanics, materials and structures, architecture, arts, and archaeology. She is also the Head of Forbes College and Co-Director of the Program in Architecture and Engineering. Garlock's work bridges academia and practice, emphasizing creative and resilient structural design for extreme loads such as fires, earthquakes, and storm surges. She studies both isolated and cascading multi-hazard events and explores historical and contemporary structural designs. Her teaching includes courses on structures and the urban environment, steel and concrete structures, and the social dimensions of architecture.

Maria Garlock is a researcher at Princeton University specializing in the behavior and design of steel structures under extreme conditions. Her work focuses on seismic-resistant connections, posttensioned steel frame systems, and fire safety in steel bridges and buildings. Garlock's research includes experimental studies, computational modeling, and full-scale testing to evaluate the performance of steel connections under cyclic loads, fire exposure, and thermal gradients. She has contributed to the development of fire fragility curves, probabilistic fire analysis, and seismic design methodologies for steel structures. Her research emphasizes the integration of experimental data with numerical simulations to improve structural resilience and safety.