Emel leads the global ground motion and site response modeling team for earthquake model development and has more than 15 years of firsthand experience in earthquake hazard and risk assessment. She joined RMS™ over eight years ago after her postdoctoral studies at Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) in University of California, Berkeley. Among her many accomplishments, Emel successfully completed over 10 projects so far, has published over 10 peer-reviewed journal papers between 2013-2022, some of which were ranked among the most cited publications. Worldwide, her published models have been used as reference models by the scientists, academics and practicing engineers including USGS, GEM, NRCan, Geoscience Australia, Europe and New Zealand to name a few. Her published studies have been the starting point to many, new publications. She is most well known for her NGA-West 2 models. She continues to consult and play an active role in national and international engineering and seismic hazard projects. She is a part-time faculty at California State Uni. of Long Beach teaching Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Emel holds both a master’s degree and PhD in civil engineering (geotechnical) from the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed postdoctoral studies at Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) at the University of California, Berkeley.