Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters

Topical Advisory Board

Dr. Sonia Giovinazzi

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA, Casaccia Research Centre, 00123 Rome, Italy

Research Interests: risk analysis, management and assessment; disaster management; emergency management; spatial analysis; civil engineering; environmental engineering; earthquake; structural engineering

Dr. Shaghayegh Karimzadeh

Institute for Sustainability in Structural Engineering (ISISE), ARISE, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidade of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal

Research Interests: numerical modeling of earthquake ground motion records; developing ground motion models; probabilistic and deterministic seismic hazard analysis; nonlinear time history analysis; seismic vulnerability and risk analysis; machine-learning algorithms in earthquake engineering

Dr. Saeid Moussavi Tayyebi

Department of Mathematics and Informatics Applied to Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Research Interests: numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering; landslides; smooth particle hydrodynamics; computational methods

Dr. Matteo Salvalaggio

Institute for Sustainability in Structural Engineering (ISISE), ARISE, Department of Civil Engineering, Universidade of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal

Research Interests: numerical modeling of masonry structures; discontinuous modeling strategies; performance-based seismic assessment; cultural heritage; strengthening techniques