Josephine Carstensen is the Gilbert W. Winslow Career Development Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and leads the Carstensen Group. Josephine has received several awards including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the CEE Maseeh Award for Excellence in Teaching. 

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Josephine holds a PhD and a MSE in Civil Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a MSc and BSc in Building Structures from the Technical University of Denmark.