Grants
Project Title: Advancing circular economy in construction through innovative holistic strategies for the reuse of structural steel
Funding Body: Amar-Franses & Foster-Jenkins Trust + UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Funding Scheme: The Maurice Franses Memorial Scholarship (Student: Francesco Cascone)
Budget: approx. £100,000
Role: Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2024-2028)
Project Title: ISCREANE - Improving Seismic resilience of CRitical facilities by Enhanced Assessment of Non-structural Elements
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01/Marie Curie Individual Fellowships (Dr Roberto Javier Merino Vela)
Budget: €236,748
Role: Supervisor
Duration: 24 months (2024-2026)
Project Title: Minority Report - Mitigating Environmental Disruptive Events Using People-Centric Predictive Digital
Technologies To Improve Disaster And Climate Resilience
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: HORIZON-CL5-2023-D4-02-02
Budget: €5,000,000 (€502,225 to UCL)
Role: UCL/WP2 Co-Lead (with Dr Gemma Cremen, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) (Consortium coordinator: IES R&D, Ireland)
Duration: 42 months (2024-2028)
Project Title: PCTWIN - People-Centered Tsunami early Warning for the INdian coastlines
Funding Body: UKRI
Funding Scheme: Understanding geohazard processes and their impacts across India
Budget: £1,531,863
Role: Project co-lead (UK) (Project Lead: Prof Fatemeh Jalayer, UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction)
Duration: 48 months (2024-2028)
Project Title: UCL Engineering for Society 3
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $75,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2023-2024)
Project Title: Estimating population displacement following disasters
Funding Body: Willis Towers Watson (WTW)
Funding Scheme: Willis Research Network
Budget: £40,000
Role: PI/Supervisor (Student: Nicole Paul)
Duration: 36 months (2023-2025)
Project Title: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Enrico Spacone
Funding Body: The Leverhulme Trust
Funding Scheme: Visiting Professorships
Budget: £72,798
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months
Project Title: UCL Engineering for Society 2
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $75,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2022-2023)
Project Title: MultiVERSE - Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment of Structures for Resilience Enhancement
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01/Marie Curie Individual Fellowships (Dr Eyitayo Opabola)
Budget: £204,031 (UKRI Postdoctoral Fellowships Guarantee)
Role: Supervisor
Duration: 24 months (2022-2024)
Project Title: MEDiate - Multi-hazard and risk-informed system for Enhanced local and regional Disaster risk management
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-03
Budget: €5,000,000 (£394,000 to UCL)
Role: UCL PI/WP3 Co-Lead (with Dr Gemma Cremen, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) (Consortium coordinator: Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR), Norway)
Duration: 36 months (2022-2025)
Website: https://mediate-project.eu/
Project Title: UCL Engineering for Society
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $50,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2021-2022)
Project Title: Towards more Earthquake-resilient Schools through Early Warning and Disaster-Risk Education
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $50,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2020-2021)
Project Title: Fostering Resilient Recovery in Displaced Communities via School-based Hubs
Funding Body: UKRI
Funding Scheme: RCUK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Equitable Resilience
Budget: £834,491
Role: co-I (PI: Prof Helene Joffee, UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences)
Duration: 36 months (2019-2022)
Project Title: GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub, Tomorrow's Cities
Funding Body: UKRI
Funding Scheme: RCUK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Interdisciplinary Research Hubs
Budget: £17,243,019 (£2,026,454 to UCL)
Role: co-I/Risk Working Group Lead/Senior Management Team Member (PI: Prof John McCloskey, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh)
Duration: 60 months (2019-2024)
Website: https://www.tomorrowscities.org/
Project Title: Safer and Resilient Communities through Safer and Resilient School Facilities 2
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $40,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2019-2020)
Project Title: Integrating earthquake early warnings into organisational resilience
Funding Body: British Academy (BA)
Funding Scheme: BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2019 Round
Budget: £9,985.72
Role: co-I (PI: Dr Gianluca Pescaroli, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction)
Duration: 12 months (2019-2020)
Project Title: Time-dependent Earthquake Risk Modelling
Funding Body: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) + WTW
Funding Scheme: EPSRC Industrial Cooperative Awards in Science & Technology (CASE) (Student: Salvatore Iacoletti)
Budget: £102,426 (£72,426 EPSRC + £30,000 WTW)
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 36 months (2019-2022)
Project Title: Resilience-Based Design and Life-Extension of Offshore Wind Farms
Funding Body: EPSRC
Funding Scheme: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship (Dr David Wilkie)
Budget: £231,201
Role: Supervisor
Duration: 24 months (2019-2021)
Project Title: MULTIRES - MULTI-level framework to enhance seismic RESilience of RC buildings
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: H2020- MSCA-IF-2018/Marie Curie Individual Fellowships (Dr Roberto Gentile)
Budget: €212,934
Role: Supervisor
Duration: 24 months (2019-2021)
Project Title: TURNkey - Towards more Earthquake-resilient Urban Societies through a Multi-sensor-based Information System enabling Earthquake Forecasting, Early Warning and Rapid Response actions
Funding Body: European Commission
Funding Scheme: H2020-SC5-2018-2
Budget: €8,000,000 (£501,000 to UCL)
Role: UCL PI//WP5 Co-Lead (with Dr Gemma Creme, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineeringn) (Consortium coordinator: Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR), Norway)
Duration: 36 months (2019-2022)
Website: https://earthquake-turnkey.eu/
Project Title: i-RESIST - Increasing REsilience of Schools in Indonesia to earthquake Shaking and Tsunami
Funding Body: Research England
Funding Scheme: UCL Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Small Research Grants
Budget: £99,630 (Success rate: 14/63)
Role: PI
Duration: 6 months (2019)
Project Title: HEARTS-SL - Hospital Engineering Assessment for Resilience to Tsunami & Storm surge – SL
Funding Body: Research England
Funding Scheme: UCL Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Small Research Grants
Budget: £99,999 (Success rate: 14/63)
Role: co-I (PI: Prof Tiziana Rossetto, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Duration: 6 months (2019)
Project Title: CHeRiSH - Cultural Heritage Resilience & Sustainability to multiple Hazards
Funding Body: British Council
Funding Scheme: Newton Fund Institutional Links Grants
Budget: £149,979 (£90,000 to UCL) (Success rate: 49/266)
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2019-2020)
Project Title: Safer and Resilient Communities through Safer and Resilient School Facilities
Funding Body: Motorola Solutions Foundation
Funding Scheme: International Grants
Budget: $30,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2018-2019)
Project Title: INSPIRE - Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience
Funding Body: British Council
Funding Scheme: Newton Fund Institutional Links Grants
Budget: £122,265 (£100,000 to UCL) (Success rate: 53/319)
Role: PI
Duration: 18 months (2018-2019)
Project Title: Wind-induced Fatigue Followed by Seismic Fracture in High-rise Steel Moment Frames
Funding Body: WTW
Funding Scheme: Willis Research Network
Budget: £10,000
Role: PI
Duration: 24 months (2017-2019)
Project Title: PRISMH - Philippines Resilience of Schools to Multi-Hazards
Funding Body: British Council
Funding Scheme: Newton Fund Institutional Links Grants
Budget: £270,000 (£119,901 to UCL)
Role: co-I (PI: Prof Dina D'Ayala, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Duration: 24 months (2017-2019)
Project Title: Increasing Resilience to Environmental Hazards in Border Conflict Zone
Funding Body: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Funding Scheme: NERC-AHRC-ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Building Resilience
Budget: £170,795
Role: co-I (PI: Prof Peter Sammonds, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction)
Duration: 9 months (2017)
Project Title: UC Davis-UCL partnership in Climate Change Adaptation for Civil Infrastructure
Funding Body: UC Davis Global Affairs
Funding Scheme: Seed Grants for International Activities
Budget: $20,000
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2017)
Project Title: CROSSH - China Resilience of Schools to Seismic Hazard
Funding Body: International Centre for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction (ICCR-DRR), China.
Funding Scheme: International Research Network on DRR
Budget: £19,988
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2017)
Project Title: SCOSSO - Safer Communities thrOugh Safer SchOols
Funding Body: EPSRC
Funding Scheme: UCL-EPSRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Small Research Grants
Budget: £101,140 (Success rate: 9/73)
Role: PI
Duration: 12 months (2016-2017)
Project Title: EEFIT Reconnaissance Mission to the Amatrice, Italy 24/08/2016 Earthquake
Funding Body: NERC
Funding Scheme: NERC Urgency Grant
Budget: £51,125
Role: co-I (PI: Prof Dina D'Ayala, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Duration: 6 months (2016-2017)
Project Title: Advancing Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment in Earthquake Prone Regions
Funding Body: China Scholarship Council (CSC)+UCL /Engineering Dean’s Prize
Funding Scheme: CSC-UCL Joint Research Scholarship (Student: Chen Huang)
Budget: £145,000 ca
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2016-2020)
Project Title: Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment of High-Rise Steel Structures
Funding Body: CSC+UCL/Overseas Research Scholarships (ORS)
Funding Scheme: CSC-UCL Joint Research Scholarship (Student: Biao Song)
Budget: £145,000 ca
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2016-2020)
Project Title: Advancing probabilistic risk assessment of offshore wind turbines on monopiles
Funding Body: EPSRC
Funding Scheme: EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) (Student: David Wilkie)
Budget: £90,282
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2015-2019)
Project Title: Engineering Earthquake Early Warning
Funding Body: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)+UCL IRDR
Funding Scheme: CONACYT-UCL Graduate Fellowship (Student: Omar Velazquez)
Budget: £150,000 ca
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2015-2019)
Project Title: Simulated ground motions for seismic risk assessment of structures
Funding Body: UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Funding Scheme: PhD studentship (Student: Alexandra Tsioulou)
Budget: £70,000 ca
Role: PI/Supervisor
Duration: 48 months (2015-2019)
Project Title: Advancing fragility and vulnerability assessment for mid-rise RC structures in Europe
Funding Body: EPSRC + AIR Worldwide
Funding Scheme: Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR) EngD (Student: Stelios Minas)
Budget: £90,000 ca
Role: co-I/Co-Supervisor (PI: Prof Tiziana Rossetto, UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering)
Duration: 48 months (2014-2018)