Meet The Team
Roberto Gentile, Ph.D.
Marie Curie Research Fellow
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy & University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2018
Topic: Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of RC Buildings
Gemma Cremen, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Earthquake Engineering, Stanford University, USA, 2019
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Topic: Decision Support System for Earthquake Early Warning and Rapid Response
David Wilkie, Ph.D.
EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow
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Completed Degree: Ph.D. Risk Engineering, University College London, UK, 2019
Topic: Resilience-Based Design and Life-Extension of Offshore Wind Farms
Karim Tarbali, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Completed Degree: Ph.D. Earthquake Engineering, University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand, 2017
Topic: Physics-based Ground-motion Simulation and Validation
Salvatore Iacoletti
Ph.D. Student
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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 Modelling (with Willis Tower Watson)
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
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Topics: Physics-based ground-motion simulations for seismic risk assessment in rapidly urbanising environments
Chen Huang
Ph.D. Candidate (completing)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management, University College London, UK, 2015
Topic: Ground-motion Models and Physics-based Simulations (with Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Biao Song
Ph.D. Candidate (completing)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Civil Engineering with Seismic Design, University College London, UK, 2015
Topics: Seismic Vulnerability of Steel Connections; Wind Engineering (with University of California, Davis, USA and Willis Tower Watson)
Omar Velazquez Ortiz
Ph.D. Candidate (completing)
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Completed Degree: M.Sc. Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management, University College London, UK, 2014
Topic: Engineering Applications of Earthquake Early Warning
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
Topic: Aftershock Vulnerability of Structures
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Kenneth Otárola
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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Topic: Accounting for ground-motion duration in building portfolio loss assessment
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: TBD
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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.