Dawn Lehman

Dawn E. Lehman is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington, where she has served on the faculty since 1998. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and specializes in large-scale structural testing, performance-based earthquake engineering, and nonlinear analysis of reinforced concrete structures. She is best known for her forensic investigation of the 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, contributing advanced nonlinear modeling to the Miami Herald's Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the disaster.