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Meet the Team

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Carmine Galasso, Ph.D.

Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering

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

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Leandro Iannacone, Ph.D.

 Research Fellow in Multi-hazard Risk & Resilience Engineering

Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2022


Topics: Multi-hazard Risk Modeling; Developing Scenarios for
Disaster Risk Reduc
tion; Simulation-based Flood Vulnerability Analysis


 

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Pouria Kourehpaz

 Research Fellow in Multi-hazard Risk & Resilience Engineering

Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2023
 


Topics: Modeling Earthquake-induced Downtime of Building Portfolios; Regional Risk Modeling  - Jointly with The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Andrea Franchini

Ph.D. Student

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Università di Trento Italy & Tongji University, China, 2018
 

Topic: Multi-hazard Structural Analysis and Optimisation of Bridges - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Jose Torero

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Giulia Brutti

Ph.D. Student
 

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Social Research Methods, London School of Economics, UK, 2022

Topic: Modeling Resettlement Decisions in Filipino Rural Communities Exposed to Flooding - Co-supervised by Gemma Cremen and Carmine Galasso

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Nicole Paul

Ph.D. Student

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2015

Topic: Disaster-induced Population Displacement Risk - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Jack Baker (Stanford University)

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Chenbo Wang

Ph.D Student
 

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2021

Topic: Modeling, Quantifying, and Managing Tomorrow's Risks from Natural Hazards - Co-supervised by Gemma Cremen and Carmine Galasso

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Karim Aljawhari

 Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management, University College London, UK, 2018



Topic: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Seismic Retrofit of Building Portfolios - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Roberto Gentile

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Kenneth Otárola Madrigal

 Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering for Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards, IUSS Pavia, Italy, 2020
 

Topics: Accounting for Ground-motion Duration in Building-portfolio Loss Assessment; Multi-hazard Structural Vulnerability - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Roberto Gentile

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Carlos Mesta Cornetero

 Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru, 2017

 


Topic: Multi-hazard Risks in Tomorrow's Cities - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Gemma Cremen

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Ignacio Agustin Gatti

 Ph.D. Student (IUSS Pavia)

Completed Degree: M.Sc. Environmental Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2020.
 


Topics: Remote Sensing; GIS; Multi-Dimensional Vulnerability and Risk Analysis - Co-supervised by Carmine Galasso and Gemma Cremen

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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