Sybil Derrible (born 1983) is a French American engineer, educator, and author.[1][2] He specializes in urban engineering, infrastructure sustainability, and system resilience.[1] He is Director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks (CSUN) Laboratory[3] and Professor in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago.[1]
He authored the textbook Urban Engineering for Sustainability published by MIT Press in 2019[4] and the popular science book The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives published by Prometheus Books in 2025.[5]
Derrible was born and raised in Saint Pierre, part of the France-owned archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.[1] He credits his background, growing up on a small archipelago, for his system-of-systems, multi-infrastructure research focus.[2]
Derrible joined the University of Illinois Chicago in 2012 as Assistant Professor. He received tenure and became Associate Professor in 2017. He was promoted to Professor in 2023.[9] His main appointment is in the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering.[1] He also holds a joint appointment at the Institute of Environmental Science and Policy[10] and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science.[11]
In 2019, Derrible spent six months in Vietnam during a sabbatical and was Visiting Professor at the University of Transport Technology[12] in Hanoi.[2]
In addition to his research work, Derrible authored several non-fiction and fiction works to communicate how civil infrastructure works and its role in society.[18]
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