Rate My Professor Kristen Parrish

Kristen Parrish is a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, within the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Holding the Willmeng Professorship in Construction, she specializes in sustainable construction practices. Parrish earned her PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009, with a dissertation titled "Applying a Set-Based Design Approach to Reinforcing Steel Design." She previously obtained an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, focusing on structural engineering, and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2005 and 2004, respectively. Her career at ASU began in 2012 as an Assistant Professor in the Del E. Webb School of Construction, where she advanced to Associate Professor in 2018 and served as Graduate Programs Chair until March 2024. Additional roles include Thrust Lead for Heat at the EXTREME Environments Science & Technology Center since August 2022, Associate Director of the Research in Inclusive STEM Education Center since August 2020, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability since 2012. Prior to ASU, she held positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as Building Technologies Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Engineering Associate, and Geological Project Scientist from 2009 to 2012, and served as a Lecturer at UC Berkeley in 2010.