
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Sep 2019 - present
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Associate Professor of Structural Engineering
Chiamata diretta ai sensi dell’art. 1, comma 9, Legge n. 230 del 4 novembre 2005
SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE (IUSS) PAVIA, Italy
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Centro di Formazione e Ricerca per la Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico (ROSE)
Oct 2017 - present
Associate Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL), UK
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE)
Jul 2014 - Sep 2017
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Catastrophe Risk Engineering
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL), UK
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) & Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, UK
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Jan 2012 - Nov 2013
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Catastrophe Risk Modeller
AIR WORLDWIDE Corporation, San Francisco, USA
Engineering Analysis and Research Department & Catastrophe Risk Engineering Practice
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE (UCI), USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

EDUCATION
Dec 2007 - Dec 2010
Ph.D. in Earthquake Risk
UNIVERSITÀ DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale (DISt)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Ground-motion record selection and modification for earthquake resistant structural design
Supervisor: Prof. I. Iervolino
Funding: Italian University and Research Ministry (MIUR)
Nov 2007
Licensed Professional Engineer
UNIVERSITÀ DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
Facoltà di Ingegneria
Oct 2000 - Mar 2007
M.Sc. in Management Engineering (with Infrastructure)
UNIVERSITÀ DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
Facoltà di Ingegneria
M.Sc. Dissertation: Reliability models for structural composites
Supervisor: Prof. I. Iervolino
MEMBERSHIPS
Others:
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2017 – present: Member of the Advisory Board of the UCL Humanitarian Institute (UK);
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January 2017 – present: Member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI; USA) – Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) Program. Selected as one of the three members to participate to a reconnaissance mission to the 2016 Central Italy Earthquakes (May 2017);
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2016 – present: Member of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT; UK) – Deputy team leader for the reconnaissance mission to the Amatrice, Italy 24/08/2016 earthquake (October 2016);
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October 2011: Selected as one of the three US research scholars (national competition) to participate to the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) - Earthquake Engineer Research Institute (EERI) US-Japan Collaborative Research on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake at the University of Tokyo, Japan (http://www.eng.uci.edu/news/2011/11/postdoctoral-fellow-selected-research-japanese-earthquake)
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2011 – present: Affiliate researcher for the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Ground Motion Simulation Validation (GMSV) Technical Activity Group (TAG);
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2008 – 2012: Affiliate researcher for the Italian Network of Earthquake Engineering University Labs (ReLUIS).