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She was honored as the RIT Board of Trustees Scholar Award in 2014. Prior to coming to RIT, Dr. Schneider worked within corporate EHS for Kodak, Mobil and ITT/Goulds, where she honed her technical management and crisis response skills. She also has served on the local HAZMAT team, and comes from a family of first responders.

Her research interests include critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management and application of risk analysis and systems theory to determine community level critical infrastructure, impacts on emergency management systems and target capabilities. She also studies exposure assessment, modeling of exposure scenarios, particularly hazardous material emergencies, and requisite response planning. Dr. Schneider’s current work includes the building of information fusion systems for regional response centers, creation of analytic hierarchical process models to measure community level operational resilience, and creation of models for emergency informational sharing over various networks. Multidimensional sustainability and analysis of sector based corporate sustainability related activities and management systems are also an area of interest. She has been the PI of over $1million in research funding and been a co PI or senior personnel on another $1 million of funded research efforts.

Recently, Dr. Schneider has been appointed by Honorable NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to NY Respond Commission (2012-), created in response to Hurricane Sandy; the National Academy of Sciences, Offshore Windfarm Health and Safety Standards Committee (2012-2013);