Hortacsu, Ayse

PEER Annual Meeting 2023 Speaker Bio: Ayse Hortacsu is Director of Projects at the Applied Technology Council (ATC). Over her 15 years at ATC, she has managed projects on various structural engineering issues that have resulted in over 50 publications to date. She has conducted post-earthquake field reconnaissance after the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes, as well as Nepal (2015), Napa California (2014), Haiti (2010), and Izmit, Turkey (1999) earthquakes. She is currently serving as a Director for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and served in similar roles for the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) and EERI Northern California Chapter. She is also the founder of Women in Structural Engineering, and a founding member of the Structural Engineering Equity and Engagement (SE3) Committee of SEAONC. Updated July, 2023.