Katrina Groth

Katrina Groth (born 1982) is an American mechanical engineer and professor. Groth is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is the associate director for research for the Center for Risk and Reliability and the director of the Systems Risk and Reliability Analysis lab (SyRRA). Groth previously served as the Principal Research & Development Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories.

Biography Groth received a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2004. HyRAM+ was used to develop both the American and international safety standards for hydrogen fueling stations—NFPA 2 and ISO 19880–1.

In 2017, Groth joined the University of Maryland's School of Engineering. There, Groth is the associate director of the Center for Risk & Reliability. Groth is also the director of the Systems Risk & Reliability Analysis (SyRRA) laboratory.

Groth serves on the board of the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

Honors and awards Mid-Career Award, Fundamental & Applied Research, Catalyzing Energy Education & Excellence (C3E) Initiative, 2025 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, 2024 Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, American Nuclear Society, 2022 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2021 United States Department of Energy Hydrogen Program Safety, Codes, and Standards Award, 2016 Robert Schefer Memorial Best Paper Award, 2015

Notable works Chapter 15 - Hydrogen safety, risk, and reliability analysis A data-informed PIF hierarchy for model-based Human Reliability Analysis Bridging the gap between HRA research and HRA practice: A Bayesian network version of SPAR-H Deriving causal Bayesian networks from human reliability analysis data: A methodology and example model HyRAM: A methodology and toolkit for quantitative risk assessment of hydrogen systems