Sybil Derrible (born 1983) is a French American engineer, educator, and author.[1][2] He specializes in urban engineering, infrastructure sustainability, and system resilience.[1] He is Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory[3] and Professor in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1]

He authored the textbook Urban Engineering for Sustainability published by MIT Press in 2019[4] and the popular science book The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives published by Prometheus Books in 2025.[5]

He is Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)[6] and Lead Author for the energy chapter of UNEP’s Seventh Global Environmental Outlook.[7]

Personal Life and Education

Derrible was born and raised in Saint Pierre, part of the France-owned archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.[1] He credits his background, growing up on a small archipelago, for his system-of-systems, multi-infrastructure research focus.[2]

Derrible received his undergraduate and M.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from Imperial College London in 2006.[1] While at Imperial College London, he spent a year at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon to study industrial engineering as part of the Erasmus program.[2] He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Toronto in 2010.[1] He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology[8] in Singapore before joining the University of Illinois Chicago in 2012.[2]

He lives in Chicago with his family.[2]

Career

Derrible joined the University of Illinois Chicago in 2012 as Assistant Professor. He received tenure and became Associate Professor in 2017. He was promoted to Professor in 2023.[9] His main appointment is in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering.[1] He also holds a joint appointment at the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy[10] and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science.[11]

In 2019, Derrible spent six months in Vietnam during a sabbatical and was Visiting Professor at the University of Transport Technology[12] in Hanoi.[2]

Derrible has authored/co-authored over one hundred scientific articles.[13] He studies infrastructure systems as complex, interdependent, and interrelated, promoting principles of livability, sustainability, and resilience.[1] His work has focused on transport, water, wastewater, electricity, natural gas, solid waste, and telecommunication infrastructure.[13] His main technical approach includes urban metabolism, artificial intelligence, and complexity science.[13]

Derrible was elected Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2025.[6] He serves as an editor for ASCE’s Journal of Infrastructure Systems,[14] Nature’s Scientific Reports,[15] and Elsevier’s Cleaner Production Letters.[16] Since 2023, he has been Chair of the Standing Committee AMR10 Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection of the Transportation Research Board.[17] He was Chair of the Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology from 2017 to 2020.[1]

In addition to his research work, Derrible authored several non-fiction and fiction works to communicate how civil infrastructure works and its role in society.[18]

Books

Selected Awards and Honors

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Derrible, Sybil | Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Background". sybilderrible.com. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  3. ^ "About | Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  4. ^ "Urban Engineering for Sustainability". MIT Press. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  5. ^ "The Infrastructure Book". Prometheus Books. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  6. ^ a b c "Professor Sybil Derrible named ASCE fellow | College of Engineering | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  7. ^ UNEP (2023-01-30). "Global Environment Outlook 7". Global Environment Outlook (GEO). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  8. ^ "Home | SMART| Singapore". SMART. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  9. ^ Derrible, Sybil. "Sybil Derrible". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  10. ^ "Faculty, Staff, and Research Assistants | Institute for Environmental Science and Policy | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  11. ^ "Adjunct Faculty | Computer Science | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  12. ^ "Trường Đại học Công nghệ giao thông vận tải". utt.edu.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2024-10-09.
  13. ^ a b c "Sybil Derrible". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  14. ^ "Aims & Scope and Editorial Board: Journal of Infrastructure Systems | ASCE Library". Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
  15. ^ "Editors | Scientific Reports". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
  16. ^ "Editorial board - Cleaner Production Letters | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
  17. ^ "Online Directory". www.mytrb.org. Retrieved 2025-02-16.
  18. ^ "Writings". sybilderrible.com. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  19. ^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2024-09-16). "August 2024 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"". Elsevier Data Repository. 7. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.7.
  20. ^ "Sybil Derrible". www.naefrontiers.org. Retrieved 2024-10-10.

External websites

Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Derrible
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