Katrina Groth
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Director, Reliability Engineering
Associate Director for Research, Center for Risk and Reliability
University of Maryland
Katrina M. Groth is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Reliability Engineering program at the University of Maryland. Groth specializes in safety, risk, and reliability analysis of energy systems. She has an active portfolio of research, including developing of Quantitative Risk Assessment methods to provide insights into dominant failure causes in novel hydrogen technologies, investigating prognostics and health management (PHM) techniques to support reliability monitoring and diagnosis of complex systems, and creating reliability data collection frameworks and algorithms. Her work has influenced safety practices and codes and standards for hydrogen fueling stations, hydrogen storage and electrolyzers, fuel cell forklifts, gas pipelines, and nuclear power plants and more.
Groth has published over 125 peer-reviewed papers and technical reports, holds 2 patents, and developed multiple software packages. She invented the DOE's HyRAM toolkit for hydrogen risk assessment, which is used by engineers worldwide to inform hydrogen safety, codes, and standards, including NFPA 2 and ISO 19880-1. Her work has been cited over 4,000 times and she has been recognized with numerous awards including an NSF CAREER award, a DOE Hydrogen Program R&D Award, and the David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety. She holds a Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland.