She graduated from NCSU, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2005. She was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University for four years. Dr. Berglund is a faculty fellow in the NCSU Center for Geospatial Analytics and is a core team member of the University of Texas Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management. She currently works with the NCSU Science of Security Lablet and has worked with the NCSU Laboratory for Analytic Sciences. Berglund is an expert in the development of agent-based models of sociotechnical systems to simulate feedback mechanisms and adaptive behaviors among consumers, infrastructure, and environmental systems. Her research also explores optimization models and algorithms to manage the sustainability, security, and resilience of complex infrastructure systems.