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Alessandra is a civil engineer graduated from La Sapienza university of Rome in 2019. She carried out her Master thesis in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury where she worked on the seismic performance of low damage post-tensioned timber frames. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Understanding and Managing Extremes at IUSS Pavia and she will benefit during her PhD from interactions at both IUSS Pavia and at McMaster University in Canada.

The overall vision of Alessandra’s project is to optimize seismic design and retrofit of building in a holistic way, considering both structural and non-structural elements. Her research activity is focused on an optimization framework developed to optimize structural and non-structural upgrades in a way to minimize lifetime seismic losses against the capital investments required for each considered upgrade. Her work involves the improvement of the optimization framework and the development of design/ retrofit recommendations based on the application of the framework to a wider range of structural and non-structural typologies with particular focus on low-damage post-tensioned rocking structures.

Ph.D. Research

Seismic Demand on Nonstructural Components in Post-Tensioned Timber Frames.