Katrina Groth Associate Professor Director of the SyRRA Lab
Katrina M. Groth is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Groth received her Ph.D. in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland in 2009 and also holds a B.S. in nuclear engineering. Before joining the University of Maryland in 2017, Dr. Groth was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, where she led research projects to develop quantitative risk assessment capabilities to support decision making for energy systems and infrastructure, including hydrogen fueling stations, nuclear power plants, and natural gas railroad tenders. During her time at Sandia, Dr. Groth developed HyRAM, a risk assessment and consequence analysis framework for hydrogen infrastructure. HyRAM enabled the development of the first United States and international safety standards for hydrogen fueling stations (NFPA 2 and ISO 19880-1). Dr. Groth has also made important contributions to the field of nuclear safety through her work on human reliability analysis and decision support systems for diagnosis of severe accidents.
Groth has received numerous awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2021), the David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety (2021), a DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program R&D Award (2016) for contributions to hydrogen safety and risk assessment, a best paper award from the International Conference on Hydrogen Safety (2015), and the George Apostolakis Fellowship award (2012) for early career accomplishments in probabilistic risk assessment. She has authored over 35 journal and conference papers on risk analysis, hydrogen safety, and human reliability analysis. Dr. Groth is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, NM.
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