Meet the Team
Gemma Cremen, Ph.D.
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Risk and Resilience Engineering, Research Group Co-Lead
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Earthquake Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2019
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Research Interests: Decision Support System for Earthquake Early Warning and Rapid Response; Multi-hazard Risks in Tomorrow's Cities
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Carmine Galasso, Ph.D.
Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering,
Research Group Co-Lead
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Earthquake Engineering and Risk, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, 2011
Research Interests: Catastrophe Risk Modeling; Engineering Seismology; Structural Reliability; Disaster Risk Reduction
Roberto Gentile, Ph.D.
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Catastrophe Risk Modelling, Research Group Co-Lead
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy & University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2018
Research Interests: Seismic Vulnerability Assessment and Reduction of RC Buildings; Catastrophe Risk Modeling; Earthquake Engineering
Jawad Fayaz, Ph.D.
Honorary Research Fellow @ UCL and Lecturer @ Teesside University
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​Completed Degree: Ph.D. Earthquake Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA, 2021
Topic: Machine-Learning- and Deep-Learning- based Extreme Event Analysis
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Eyitayo (Tayo) Opabola, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
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​Topic: Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment of Structures for Resilience Enhancement
Yaan Wang, Ph.D.
China Scholarship Council Research Fellow
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Natural Disasters, Beijing Normal University, China & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2020
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​Topic: Multi-hazard Risk and Resilience of Infrastructure Systems
Fabrizio Nocera, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in Multi-hazard Risk & Resilience Engineering
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​Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2022
Topic: Modeling, Quantifying, and Managing Tomorrow's Risks from Natural Hazards
Leandro Iannacone, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in Multi-hazard Risk & Resilience Engineering
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​Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2022
Topic: Modeling, Quantifying, and Managing Tomorrow's Risks from Natural Hazards
Catalina González Dueñas, Ph.D.
Research Fellow in Multi-hazard Risk & Resilience Engineering
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​Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Rice University, USA, 2022
Topic: Modeling, Quantifying, and Managing Tomorrow's Risks from Natural Hazards
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Salvatore Iacoletti
Ph.D. Candidate
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​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, 2017
Topic: Time-dependent Earthquake Risk Modeling (with Willis Tower Watson) - Co-supervised by Gemma Cremen and Carmine Galasso
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Andrea Franchini
Ph.D. Student
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Università di Trento Italy & Tongji University, China, 2018
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Topic: Multi-hazard Structural Optimisation of Bridges - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Jose Torero
Umut Lagap
Ph.D. Student
​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Project and Construction Management, Ä°zmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü, Turkey, 2020
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Topic: Quantifying Post-disaster Housing Stock Resilience - Co-supervised by Roberto Gentile and Carmine Galasso
Chenbo Wang
Ph.D Student
​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2021
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Topic: Modeling, Quantifying, and Managing Tomorrow's Risks from Natural Hazards - Co-supervised by Gemma Cremen and Carmine Galasso
Nicole Paul
Ph.D. Student
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2015
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Topics: Disaster-induced population displacement risk - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Jack Baker (Stanford University)
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Karim Aljawhari
Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management, University College London, UK, 2018
Topics: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Seismic Retrofit of Building Portfolios - Co-supervised by Roberto Gentile and Carmine Galasso
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Kenneth Otárola Madrigal
Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering for Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards, IUSS Pavia, Italy, 2020
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Topics: Accounting for Ground-motion Duration in Building-portfolio Loss Assessment; Multi-hazard Structural Vulnerability
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Carlos Mesta Cornetero
Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru, 2017
Topic: Multi-hazard Risks in Tomorrow's Cities - Co-supervised by Gemma Cremen and Carmine Galasso
Diego Suarez Salinas
Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)
​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering for Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards, IUSS Pavia, Italy, 2022
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Topic: Risk-based design of structures - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Roberto Gentile
Gabriella Tocchi
Visiting Ph.D. Student
(Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
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​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Building Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, 2018
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Topic: Multi-hazard Risk Modeling - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Gemma Cremen (UCL) and Maria Polese (UniNa)
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Giandomenico Mastrantoni
Visiting Ph.D. Student
(Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy)
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​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Engineering Geology, Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy, 2019
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Topic: Multi-hazard Risk Modeling - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Gemma Cremen (UCL) and Paolo Mazzanti (Sapienza)
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Himanshu Agrawal
Ph.D. Student (Edinburgh Uni/UCL)
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​Completed Degree: Integrated B.Sc.-M.Sc. Geological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India, 2020
Topic: Physics-based Ground-motion Simulations for Seismic Risk Assessment - Co-supervised by John McCloskey and Carmine Galasso
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Yujia Hu
Research Assistant
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​Completed Degree: M.Sc. Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management, University College London, UK, 2022
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Topic: Seismic risk assessment for present and future scenarios in
Yangbi, China - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Yaan Wang
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We are always pleased to hear from people interested in joining our team to conduct research in any of the areas mentioned here. Please note that we only consider applications from highly-qualified students with a specialized MSc degree. Get in touch via email only if you have a first-class honours (or equivalent) and have secured or actively sought a competitive scholarship. Competitions for funding opportunities may exist through internal and external schemes for exceptional applicants.
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