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, 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, 1 textbook, and has and developed multiple software packages. She has received numerous awards, including an NSF CAREER award in 2021 and 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.