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Kasey M. Faust, PhD

Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Kasey M. Faust is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research on sociotechnical systems (primarily water sector infrastructure) aims to improve access to basic necessities for underserved communities. Her work applies systems thinking approaches, enabled by mixed quantitative and qualitative methods, to not only explore the technical aspects of infrastructure but also the operating environment, human-infrastructure interactions and interdependencies, and institutional conditions that impact those systems. In so doing, her research integrates social and institutional factors constraining and shaping technical system performance. Much of her works especially focuses on extreme events—chronic (e.g., population decline, gentrification), protracted (e.g., refugee crisis, pandemic) and acute (e.g., disaster causing physical damage)—which shift the operating environments in ways that force infrastructure and utilities to operate far beyond design conditions.

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