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• April 11, 2025: Many congratulations to Kenneth Otarola for receiving the 2024 Best Paper Award (Earthquake Engineering) for the paper ‘Simulation-based consequence analysis of reinforced-concrete buildings subjected to earthquake- and environment-induced damage accumulation’ (by K. Otarola, L. Iannacone, R. Gentile and C. Galasso) published in Engineering Structures.
   

• March 27, 2025: Nicole Paul's recent paper on 'A predictive model for household displacement duration after disasters' (by N. Paul, C. Galasso, J. Baker, and V. Silva) was highlighted by the NHERI SimCenter for its use of SimCenter software and data.
   

• March 7, 2025: Nicole Paul gave an invited (online) talk on 'Household displacement and return after disasters' hosted by the Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and the Peruvian Engineers Association (CIP).
   

• March 5, 2025: Prof Maria Koliou and Prof Petros Sideris (Texas A&M University, College of Engineering, USA) visited our research lab. During their visit, they met with members of our team, explored our ongoing research, and discussed potential collaborations for future projects. They also gave talks on 'Holistic Community Resilience Assessment via Agent-Based Models' (Maria) and 'Construction 3D Printing: Design Methods and Large-scale Structural Testing for Residential Applications' (Petros).
   

• January 27-31, 2023: Carmine Galasso and Prof Fabrizio Paolacci (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) delivered a one-week short course on ‘Fundamentals of Structural Reliability and Catastrophe Risk Analysis’ for the PhD programme in Civil Engineering at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome Italy.
   

• January 24, 2025: Carmine Galasso gave an invited talk on 'Forward-Looking, Equitable, and Systemic Natural-hazard Risk Modelling' at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
   

• January 8, 2025: Prof Alex Taflanidis (University of Notre Dame, USA) visited our research lab. During the visit, he met with members of our team, explored our ongoing research, and discussed potential collaborations for future projects. He also gave a talk on 'Computationally efficient uncertainty propagation for seismic vulnerability assessment: reduced and surrogate modelling techniques and multi-fidelity Monte Carlo'.
   

• December 9-10, 2024: Prof Amy Kim (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) and Prof Liam Wotherspoon (University of Auckland, New Zealand) visited our research lab and gave invited talks on ‘Characterizing Disruptions due to Natural Hazards and Weather Events on Long-Distance Transportation Systems’ (Amy) and 'Critical Infrastructure Natural Hazards Resilience Research in New Zealand – National Research Collaborations' (Liam). DE|RISC Lab members also gave lightning talks on their research during the visit.
   

• December 9-10, 2024: Dr Ekbal Hussain (British Geological Survey) visited our research lab and gave an invited talk on ‘A recipe for disaster’. DE|RISC Lab members also gave lightning talks on their research during the visit.
   

• November 30, 2024: Carmine Galasso participated in the ‘102nd Journées Luxembourgeoises de Géodynamique (JLG) & European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (EFEHR) Scientific Session 2024’ on 'Multi-hazard and Multi-risk Assessment for Geohazards'. The event took place in Luxembourg from November 27 to 29, 2024. Carmine also co-organized and co-chaired a session on 'Earthquake-induced Ground Motion Modelling: Latest Findings and Engineering Applications' with Aybige Akinci (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, INGV, Italy) and Adrien Oth (European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, ECGS, Luxembourg). Former research group members Salvatore Iacoletti (AXA-XL) and Alexandra Tsioulou (Gallagher Re) gave talks on 'Modeling earthquake risk and its secondary effects – The (Re)Insurance Industry Perspective and Needs' (Sal) and 'Multi-risk perils: The view, needs and gap from the (re)insurance industry' (Alexandra) during the event.
   

• November 1, 2024: Carmine Galasso has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, published by Springer Nature.
   

• October 29, 2024: Carmine Galasso contributed to an Elsevier post on how to prepare a cover letter for journal submission. Read it here.
   

• October 18, 2024: Carmine Galasso participated in an online panel discussion on'Multi-hazard and Risk-informed System for Enhanced Local and Regional Disaster Risk Management' within the framework of the MEDiate project. This event will be part of the Europe and Central Asia Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Montenegro on November 6-8, 2024. This is a key forum addressing disaster risk challenges in the region. It brings together governments, civil society, and the private sector from 55 countries to share knowledge, build capacities, and make commitments to reduce disaster risks, supporting the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
   

• September 13, 2024: Prof Suzanne Wilkinson (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) visited our research lab. During the visit, she met with members of our team, explored our ongoing research, and discussed potential collaborations for future projects.
   

• September 2, 2024: Prof Sabine Loos (University of Michigan, USA) visited our research lab and gave an invited talk on ‘Designing human-centered disaster impact information’. DE|RISC Lab members gave lightning talks on their research during the visit.
   

• August 5, 2024: The paper 'Integrating fire safety into bridge design is essential for resilient infrastructure' by Andrea Franchini, Carmine Galasso, et al. has been featured on the Editors' Highlights page of Nature Communications, Section ‘Engineering and Infrastructure’. The Editors' Highlights pages aim to showcase the 50 best papers recently published in an area.
   

• August 1, 2024: Carmine Galasso has concluded his 12-month academic sabbatical at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, and has returned to UCL. He now serves as Research Director and Deputy Departmental Graduate Tutor (Research Students) in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL.
   

• July 5, 2024: Several members of the research group attended, chaired sessions, and presented their research at the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), held in Milan, Italy, from June 30 to July 5. Details associated with those presentations are available on the Research Outputs > Conference Proceedings/Abstracts page.
   

• May 24, 2024: Congratulations to Karim Aljawhari for passing his final PhD viva at IUSS Pavia, Italy, today. Karim's PhD dissertation, co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Roberto Gentile at UCL, is titled ‘Holistic Seismic Rehabilitation: Integrating Sustainability, Direct, and Indirect Losses in Risk-targeted Retrofit Design and Optimization’. The examiners were Dr Flavia De Luca, University of Bristol, UK, Dr Xavier Romão, University of Porto, Portugal, and Prof Vlatko Sesos, Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology – IZIIS, North Macedonia. Karim’s work received an outstanding grade of “summa cum laude”, the highest grade in the Italian system. He has now joined the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation in Italy as a Physical Vulnerability Specialist. Well done, and all the very best, Karim!
   

• May 20, 2024: Congratulations to Andrea Franchini for passing his final PhD viva today. Andrea's PhD dissertation, co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Jose Torero at UCL, is titled ‘Consequence-oriented Fire Intensity Optimisation: Methodology Development and Application to Bridges'. The examiners were Prof Katherine Cashell, UCL, and Prof Luke Bisby, University of Edinburgh, UK. Andrea has now joined Ghent University, Belgium, as a Research Fellow working on an ERC Starting Grant titled ‘AFireTest - Adaptive Fire Testing: A New Foundation Stone for Fire Safety’. Well done, and all the very best, Andrea!
   

• May 3, 2024: Carmine Galasso attended and gave two talks on ‘Engineering earthquake early warning’ and ‘Tomorrow’s Cities: An Interdisciplinary Decision Support Environment Delivering Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning for Expanding Cities in the Global South’ at the Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting 2024, in Anchorage, AK, USA.
   

• April 26, 2024: Carmine Galasso visited Prof Jack Baker at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, and gave an invited talk on ‘Forward-looking Catastrophe Risk Modeling for Resilience: Recent Advances and Perspectives’ at the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative (SURI). Carmine, Nicole Paul, and Prof Henry Burton (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) also participated in a career panel organized by the EERI-Stanford Student Chapter and SURI students.
   

• April 3, 2024: Carmine Galasso and Nicole Paul hosted a workshop at UBC on ‘Household Displacement and Return in Disasters,’ with talks by Nicole Paul, Chenbo Wang (online), and Giulia Brutti from UCL. This was followed by an engaging discussion with UBC academics Stephanie Chang, Sara Shneiderman, Carlos Molina Hutt, and members of the Engineering for Seismic Resilience Laboratory (ESR Lab; Kiranjot Kaur, Kristen Blowes, Amber Shen, Ehsan Ferdosi, Pouria Kourehpaz) at UBC.
   

• April 1, 2024: Many congratulations to Leandro Iannacone on accepting a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering, focusing on risk and reliability analysis of the built environment, at Lund University, Department of Building & Environmental Technology, Division of Structural Engineering, Sweden.
   

• March 31, 2024: Carmine Galasso has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), published by Elsevier, effective April 2024.
   

• March 12, 2024: Carmine Galasso visited Prof Abbie Liel at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, and gave an invited talk on ‘Engineering Earthquake Early Warning Systems’ in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.
   

• February 8, 2024: Carmine Galasso gave an invited talk on 'Engineering Earthquake Early Warning' as part of the UBC Structural & Earthquake Engineering Seminar Series (CIVL 597-004) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, Canada.
   

• February 1, 2024: Carmine Galasso and Pouria Kourehpaz gave invited presentations at the 2024 NHERI Computational Symposium at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
   

• January 24, 2024: Carmine Galasso gave an invited talk on 'Urban growth and social vulnerability in the Kathmandu Valley' at the University of British Columbia, Himalaya Program, Vancouver Campus, Canada.
   

• January 8, 2024: Many congratulations to Carlos Mesta for receiving an Honorable Mention (Graduate Student Paper Prize) from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), USA, for the paper ‘Quantifying the potential benefits of risk-mitigation strategies on present and future seismic losses in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’ (by C. Mesta, G. Cremen, C. Galasso) published in Earthquake Spectra.