Chenzhi Ma

Chenzhi Ma

Postdoctoral Scholar at UNR. Incoming Assistant Professor at UNL (Aug 2026). Structural fire engineering, multi-hazard resilience, WUI fire risk.

Chenzhi Ma

Chenzhi Ma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (starting August 2026). His research advances performance-based fire design through advanced thermal-mechanical simulation, material characterization, and lifetime economic and environmental assessment.

He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2025, advised by Prof. Thomas Gernay, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno, working on wildland–urban interface (WUI) fire risk modeling.

See the Research page for current projects and the CV for a full record.