Dr Gabriele Chiaro

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Gabriele is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering. His research focuses on "Geotechnical Engineering for Resilience and Sustainability" with special interests in:

1. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and related problems  

2. Geo-disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation 

3. Experimental Geotechnics (soil behaviour from very small to large strain levels) 

4. Geoenvironmental Engineering 

5. Ground Improvement Techniques for Seismic-Resilient Structures

6. Computational Geotechnics (constitutive, DEM and FEM modelling)

Gabriele holds a BSc degree and an MSc degree in Civil Engineering (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), and a PhD degree in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (University of Tokyo, Japan, 2010). His career involves 17 years of work in the academy, including 5 years in Japan, 3 years in Australia, and 9 years in New Zealand.  

His research has been sponsored through competitive grant awards from a diverse range of funding agencies, including EQC, MBIE (Smart Ideas Endeavour Fund), QuakeCoRE, DEVORA, JSPS and JST. To date, he has secured over NZ$ 3 million in external research funds (of which NZ$ 2+ million as a primary investigator). He has authored or co-authored over 130 technical publications. His accolades include the JGS Best Paper Award (2022), the IABSE Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (2021), the NZSEE Otto Glogau Award (2020), and the JSPS Research Fellowship (2014). Gabriele served as the Team Leader of the 2016 NZSEE “Learning from Earthquake” Mission in Kumamoto, Japan, and Team Co-Leader of the 2015 JGS/JSCE “Learning from Earthquake” Mission in Nepal. He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He is a member of the ISSMGE TC101 "Laboratory Testing" and of the ISSMGE AsRTC1 "Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions".