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Editorial Work

 

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  • 2017 – 2024: Associate Editor for Frontiers in Earth Science/Geohazards and Georisks.
     

  • 2019: Guest Editor for Ground-breaking technologies, big data, and innovation for disaster risk modelling and reduction in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS).
     

  • 2014 – 2019: Review Editor for Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Climate Studies and Frontiers in Built Environment/Earthquake Engineering.
     

  • 2014: Section Editor for Seismic Risk Assessment in Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4.
     

  • 2014: Guest Editor for Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Hydro-meteorological Hazards in the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.
     

  • 2011 – present: Referee for over 50 international journals/book series/conference proceedings including Nature Communications; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics; Earthquake Spectra; Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering; Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering; Journal of Earthquake Engineering; Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; Seismological Research Letters; Earth-Science Reviews; Engineering Structures; Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics; Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering – ASCE-ASME; Journal of Structural Engineering – ASCE; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; Scientific Reports; Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment; 10th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR10), 2009, Osaka, Japan; 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (15WCEE), 2012, Lisbon, Portugal; 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR11), 2013, New York, USA; 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) & 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014), 2014, Liverpool, UK; 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP12), 2015, Vancouver, Canada; 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16ECEE), 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece; 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE), Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 25-29, 2018; American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, December 10-14, 2018; 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), 2019, Seoul, South Korea; 2019 Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) Conference, Greenwich, UK, September 9-10, 2019; 9th Turkish Conference on Earthquake Engineering (9TCEE), 2021, Istanbul, Turkey; 13th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR2021), 2021, Shanghai, China; Future City by Springer (Book Series).

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Conference Organisation

 

  • July 2026: Member of the organising committee/Technical Programme Committee and co-lead of the Risk and Loss Modelling stream with Ehsan Kianirad (Liberty Mutual, USA) at the 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE), organised by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), Portland, OR, USA, July 13-17, 2026.
     

  • May 2026: Co-chair, with Prof Fatemeh Jalayer (UCL) and James Dalziel (WTW), of the First RIAGE – (Re)Insurance–Academia Global Earthquake Workshop, UCL, London, UK, May 18-19, 2026.
     

  • June 2025: Organiser and co-chair of a Mini-symposium on Multi-Hazard Approaches to Structural Assessment and Design of Civil Engineering Structures and Infrastructure Systems with Prof Francesco Petrini (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy), Prof Michele Barbato (University of California, Davis, USA) and Dr Leandro Iannacone (Lund University, Sweden) at the 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’25), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 2-6, 2025.
     

  • July 2024: Member of the international organising committee & organiser and co-chair of 1) a special session on Decision-support tools for community resilience enhancement with Dr Eyitayo Opabola (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Prof Abbie Liel (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA); 2) a special session on Forward-looking earthquake risk modelling and quantification: recent advances and perspectives with Gemma Cremen (UCL) and Vitor Silva (Global Earthquake Model Foundation, Italy), at the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), Milan, Italy, June 30 – July 5, 2024.
     

  • July 2023: Member of the international scientific committee for the 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland, July 9-13, 2023.
     

  • November 2022: Organiser and panellist for a technical session at the 2022 Understanding Risk Global Forum (UR22) by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at World Bank, Florianopolis, Brazil, November 28 – December 2, 2022.
     

  • September 2022: Organiser and co-chair of a Mini-symposium on Advancing Statistical Tools for Time-Dependent Seismic Risk and Resilience Assessment: Perspectives and Challenges with Dr Gemma Cremen and Dr Pierre Gehl (BRGM, France) at the 13th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021-22), Tongji University, Shanghai, China, September 13-17, 2022.
     

  • September 2022: Member of the scientific committee, organiser, and co-chair of a Mini-symposium on From earthquake early warning to rapid response: integrating state-of-the-art from real-time seismology and earthquake engineering with Aldo Zollo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), John Clinton (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), and Alberto Michelini (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Italy) at the Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (3ECEES), Bucharest, Romania, September 4-9, 2022.
     

  • May 2022: Organiser and co-chair of an official side event and an interactive online platform at the 7th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) organised and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and co-chaired by the Government of Indonesia, Bali, Indonesia, May 23-28, 2022.
     

  • September 2019: Member of the scientific committee, organiser and co-chair of 1) a Session on Seismic Hazard and Engineering Seismology with Dr Guillermo Aldama-Bustos (Jacobs, UK); and 2) a Session on Risk Assessment in Developing Countries with Dr Flavia De Luca (University of Bristol, UK) and Dr Ricardo Monteiro (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy) at the 2019 Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) Conference, Greenwich, UK, September 9-10, 2019.

 

  • May 2019: Member of the international scientific committee, organiser and co-chair of 1) a Session on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Weather-Related Hazards with Prof Fatemeh Jalayer (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Dr Maria Pregnolato (University of Bristol, UK) and Prof Mario Martina (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy); and 2) a Mini-symposium on Recent Advances and Perspectives in Catastrophe (CAT) Risk Modelling for Developing Countries with Dr Flavia De Luca and Dr Raffaele De Risi (University of Bristol, UK) at the 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), Seoul, South Korea, May 26-30, 2019.

 

  • April 2019: Organiser and co-chair of a Session on Ground-breaking Technologies, Big Data and Innovation for Disaster Risk Reduction with Dr Rui Figueiredo, Prof Mario Martina (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy), and Dr Kai Schröter (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) at the European Geosciences Union (EGU2019) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 8-12, 2019.

 

  • December 2018: Organiser and co-chair of a Session on The Collection of Natural Hazard, Exposure, and Vulnerability Data for Use in Risk Assessments and Other Novel Purposes with Dr Richard J Murnane, Dr Stuart Fraser, and Dr Nicolas Pondard (World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, GFDRR, USA) at the American Geophysical Union (AGU2018) Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, December 10-14, 2018.

 

  • June 2017: Organiser and chair of a special session on Safer communities through safer schools and digital health with Dr Patty Kostkova (UCL-IRDR) at the 7th Annual Conference of the Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, UCL, London, UK, June 21, 2017.

 

  • June 2016: Organiser and chair of a special session on Early Warning Systems for Disasters: Integrating Perspectives from Across Disciplines with Dr Zehra Zaidi (UCL-IRDR) at the 6th Annual Conference of the Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, UCL, London, UK, June 15, 2016.

 

  • July 2015: Member of the international scientific committee, organiser and chair of a Mini-symposium on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Rainfall-induced Phenomena with Prof Fatemeh Jalayer (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Prof Giuseppe Aronica (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy) and Dr Fulvio Parisi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy) at the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP12), Vancouver, Canada, July 12-15, 2015.

 

  • July 2014: Member of the international scientific committee, organiser and chair of a Mini-symposium on Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Weather-Related Phenomena with Prof Fatemeh Jalayer (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy), Prof Paolo Bazzurro (Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia, Italy) and Prof Giuseppe Aronica (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy) at the 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) & 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014), Liverpool, UK, July 13-15, 2014.

 

  • June 2013: Member of the international scientific committee, organiser and chair of a Mini-symposium on Young Researchers in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering with Dr Sanaz Rezaeian (United States Geological Survey) at the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR), Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, June 16-20, 2013.

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Peer Review

 

  • Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), CDRI Fellowship Programme, 2025–26 Cohort (Technical Expert)
     

  • Czech Science Foundation
     

  • Dutch Research Council (NWO), the Netherlands
     

  • European Research Council (ERC), European Commission
     

  • Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Verona Vicenza Belluno e Ancona, Italy, Research Fund (Progetti di Eccellenza 2018)
     

  • General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI), Greece, evaluation of proposals for the National Research Infrastructures Roadmap (2021–2027 programming period), 2025
     

  • Icelandic Research Fund
     

  • Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), Progetti di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN2017), Italy (Referee and Rapporteur)
     

  • Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), Programma "Giovani Ricercatori - Rita Levi Montalcini", 2019
     

  • Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), “Young Researchers” call, 2024 – present (Coordinator of the Environment and Geosciences evaluation panel)
     

  • Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research (ANVUR), eValuation of the Quality of Research (VQR) 2015–2019
     

  • Mitacs, Canada
     

  • National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
     

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada/Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, Alliance Grants, 2021
     

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
     

  • UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

     

  • UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
     

  • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
     

  • Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Bando di Ateneo per il finanziamento di progetti competitivi per Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato (RTD), Anno 2021–2022
     

  • Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Bando per assegni di ricerca internazionali, 2018
     

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