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Paolo Franchin

Full Professor of Structural Design and Earthquake Engineering. I hold a Laurea and a PhD degree from Sapienza, and a Master of Science from University of California, Berkeley. My research in the broader field of Earthquake Engineering focuses on Seismic Risk Assessment of Structural and Infrastructural Systems. I have taken and still take part in collaborative research projects at the national and international level (e.g. within the 5th, 6th and 7th European Framework Programmes). I teach Seismic design and assessment. I am a member of fib, the International Federation for Structural Concrete, a reviewer for international journals in the relevant fields of research, a member of the Doctoral School in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at Sapienza and a faculty of the European School in Reduction of Seismic Risk in Pavia.

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Francesco Cavalieri

Researcher at European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) since May 2018. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering in 2010, at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy). From 2010 to 2018 he has been Research Associate at the Department of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza – University of Rome. Within the EU-funded FP7 project SYNER-G, he was one of the developers of OOFIMS. During his academic career, he spent various months as visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York, USA), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the French Geological Survey (BRGM site in Orléans, France). His research activity has focussed on the topics of Earthquake Engineering, mainly on seismic reliability of structures, vulnerability of reinforced concrete precast buildings, multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment of interdependent infrastructural systems, soil-structure interaction. He has authored more than 70 publications; he is a reviewer for a number of international journals and an associate editor of Earthquake Spectra (Sage Journals). He is an instructor at IUSS Pavia and speaker in national and international conferences.

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Graeme Weatherill

Graeme Weatherill studied at the University of East Anglia (2005), Norwich, where he obtained his degree in Geophysical Sciences in 2004, before completing a Master’s degree in Geophysical Hazards from University College London in 2005. He returned to UEA to study for a PhD in earthquake hazard assessment, graduating in 2009. After completing his PhD he joined the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE), participating in the FP7 Seismic Hazard Harmonisation in Europe Project (SHARE) and SYNER-G. Graeme joined the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) in 2011 where he is currently a seismic hazard researcher. In his present role he contributes to the development of OpenQuake and is the lead developer of GEM’s Hazard Modeller’s Toolkit and Strong Motion Modeller’s Toolkit. In addition he is also engaged in training and collaboration with scientists working in GEM’s regional initiatives, as well as undertaking original research in various aspects of seismic hazard and risk assessment. He is currently involved in the FP7 STRES-T project, researching seismic hazard modeling needs for critical facilities and infrastructures. 

Graeme’s research interests span a wide variety of topics including seismic hazard modeling for spatially distributed systems, application of machine learning techniques for seismic hazard model development, construction of probabilistic seismic hazard models at local, regional and global scale, and development of open source software for seismic hazard and risk assessment.

In the development of the OOFIMS software, Graeme collaborated with colleagues in the design and development of the seismic hazard input modules. These included the modeling of the seismogenic source, the generation of the spatially correlated and spatially cross-correlated fields of ground motion intensity measures, geotechnical modules for site amplification, liquefaction and landsliding, and a stochastic method for the generation of co-seismic fault displacement.

Pierre Gehl

Pierre Gehl graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris and joined BRGM as a research engineer in 2006, where he worked on several research projects involving numerical modelling and methodological developments for the seismic vulnerability assessment of structures. He has been involved in several European FP7 projects (SYNER-G, MATRIX, REAKT, MIAVITA) and he has also led various French-funded projects on the vulnerability assessment of RC and masonry buildings. He has joined UCL as a Research Associate in January 2014 and he is currently involved in the European FP7 INFRARISK project, where he is developing new approaches for the derivation of analytical fragility functions for large transportation network elements (e.g. bridges, tunnels), in order to implement stress-tests for critical infrastructures exposed to natural hazards. He is author or co-author of around 25 peer-reviewed papers and conference proceedings.

Principal areas of research: vulnerability assessment, probabilistic approaches for seismic risk, masonry and RC buildings, infrastructure risk

Regarding the development of OOFIMS, he was involved in the preliminary formalization of the object-oriented paradigm, the definition of the systemic taxonomy and the implementation of some modules, such as the probabilistic model for road closure due to debris from collapsed buildings.

Iunio Iervolino

Iunio Iervolino is professor of Earthquake Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, where he graduated and got his PhD in Seismic Risk in 2004. He also holds a MSc in Earthquake Engineering from the European School in Reduction of Seismic Risk in Pavia.  His main fields of research are stochastic modeling of seismic hazard and structural reliability.

Regarding the development of OOFIMS, he was involved in the development of the seismic hazard sub-model and of the GAS network sub-model.

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Simona Esposito

Simona Esposito holds a Laurea in Management Engineering and a PhD in Seismic Risk from University of Naples Federico II. Her doctoral work focused on probabilistic seismic risk assessment of spatially distributed infrastructure systems. She worked in international research projects (FP7-SYNERG, FP7-REAKT) and collaborated to the work of the ICHESE Committee investigating induced seismicity in Emilia Romagna (Italy). She is currently post-doc at ETH Zurich.

Regarding the development of OOFIMS, she was involved in the development of the GAS network sub-model.