Rachel Davidson

{{Short description|US civil engineer and professor}}

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|education = Ph.D: Stanford University, Master: Stanford University, Bachelor: Princeton University

|discipline = Risk analyst and civil engineer

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Rachel A. Davidson is an American civil engineer and professor in the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware.

She is known for her research on natural disaster risk modeling, disaster risk management and civil infrastructure systems.[https://legacy.arch.tamu.edu/camra/davidson_on_engineering_risk_reduction.pdf Disaster Risk Reduction: An Engineering Perspective][http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970813quakeindex.html Search Results A new index of earthquake risk][https://engineering.jhu.edu/civil/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/2014_CE-Grad-Seminar-R-Davidson.pdf Modeling natural disaster risk management] She is a winner of the Dorothy Swanson Excellence in Teaching Award and a nominee for the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.

She was the president of Society for Risk Analysis (2010-2011).