Dr. Schneider is a Principal in the Collaboratory for Resiliency and Recovery at RIT and a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety. Her research interests include critical infrastructure emergency planning and disaster management, application of risk analysis and systems theory to determine community level critical infrastructure, and impact on emergency management systems and target capabilities. She also studies exposure assessment, modeling of exposure scenarios, particularly hazardous material emergencies, and requisite response planning. Multidimensional sustainability and analysis of sector based corporate sustainability related activities and management systems are also an area of interest. She has been the Principal Investigator of over $1 million in research funding and a co-PI or senior personnel on another $600,000 of funded research efforts.