PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Sep 2019 - June 2023
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(Part-time) 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)
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, UK
School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
July 2014 - present
Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (October 2021 - present)
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Associate Professor
(October 2017 - September 2021)
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
(July 2014 - September 2017)
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL), UK
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) & Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)
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 - Jan 2011
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
Advisor: Prof. I. Iervolino
Funding: Italian University and Research Ministry (MIUR)
Oct 2000 - Mar 2007
M.Sc. in Management Engineering (with Infrastructure)
UNIVERSITÀ DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
Facoltà di Ingegneria
M.Sc. Dissertation: Time-dependent structural reliability models for structural composites
Advisor: Prof. I. Iervolino
Nov 2007
Licensed Professional Engineer
UNIVERSITÀ DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, ITALY
Facoltà di Ingegneria
MEMBERSHIPS
Others:
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2023 – present: Member of the Community for the European Observatory of Good Practices (CEO), ROADMAP2 - EuRopean ObservAtory on Disaster risk and Crisis MAnagement best Practices, way ahead, funded by the European Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network Partnership (UCPM-2022-KN), 2023-2024.
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2023 – present: Member of the Disaster Resilience Research Network at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, funded by the University of British Columbia and British Columbia’s Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness.
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2023 – present: Member and UCL Point of Contact (with Prof Fatemeh Jalayer) for European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (EFEHR).
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2021 – present: Advisory Board Member for the Research Centre for Risks and Sustainability in Construction (RISCO) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
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August 2023 – July 2024: Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.
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2021 – 2022: High-Level Advisory Group Member for the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), New Delhi, India.
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2017 – 2019: Member of the Advisory Board of the UCL Humanitarian Institute (UK)
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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 in 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 in 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).
