Dr. Gregory B. Baecher

Class of 2024-25

Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A.J. Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland College Park

Renowned for his pioneering work in risk and reliability of civil infrastructure, Gregory B. Baecher has significantly advanced the field of geotechnical and water-resources engineering through the development and implementation of probabilistic methods.

Currently, his scholarship focuses on improving the safety and resilience of civil infrastructure systems by applying these probabilistic approaches.

Baecher received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is an emeritus chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.

Baecher is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Honors include the Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers; the Arthur T. Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers; the Anwar Wissa Memorial Lecture Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Institute of Florida; the Distinguished Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; the Terzaghi Lecture Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Institute; the Buchanan Lecture at Texas A&M; the Lacasse Lecture of GEOSnet from the American Society of Civil Engineers; the GEOSnet Distinguished Achievement Award; membership in the University of California, Berkeley, Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni; the Panamanian National Award for Science and Technology Innovation; the Commander’s Award for Public Service from the Headquarters of the United States Army Corps of Engineers; the Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers; the State-of-the-Art Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers; and being a Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow.

Baecher will collaborate with faculty and researchers in the College of Engineering.