Job title:
Director
Bio/CV:
Julia Griswold is the director of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). Her current research focuses on implementation of the Safe System Approach in the U.S. and how the framework can be used to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety, speed management, and road safety management programs.
Griswold is also the associate director of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS), a Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) supported by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and led by the University of New Mexico (UNM).
Griswold earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley, an M.A. in Geography from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Linguistics from Pomona College. She began working at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher in 2009 and held various research positions until taking on leadership roles in 2023.
