Christopher Clavin (Fed)

Christopher T. Clavin is the Group Leader of the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Group in the Fire Research Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The WUI Fire Group advances measurement science to reduce the spread of fire to communities in the WUI, conducts case studies of WUI fires to understand fire dynamics and the mechanisms of structure ignition and factors contributing to community WUI fire risk, and supports the development of science-based standards and codes to mitigate WUI fire risks in communities. He previously served as the Engineering Laboratory’s Senior Advisor for Resilience and as a researcher in the Community Resilience Group, where his research focused on disaster recovery planning and the development and deployment of community-scale resilience planning methods and tools.

Mr. Clavin is a co-recipient of the Department of Commerce’s Bronze Medal in 2023 in recognition of developing a science-based ASTM standard for community disaster resilience planning. In 2023, he received ASTM’s E60 Sustainability Award of Recognition for significant technical contributions in the creation of Standard E3341 - Standard for General Principles of Resilience.

Mr. Clavin joined NIST in 2019 as a Research Environmental Engineer in the Community Resilience Group. From 2022 to 2024, he served on detail at the Office of Management and Budget, where he was responsible for leading efforts to strengthen natural hazards resilience across Federal infrastructure programs. Prior to joining NIST, Mr. Clavin was a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Science and Technology Policy Institute, where he led research teams that provided science policy analysis at the intersections of energy, the environment, and disaster resilience.