6/29/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "A novel people-centred approach to modeling and decision making on future earthquake risk" at 12NCEE in Salt Lake City, Utah.
6/20/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Towards next-generation impact-based earthquake early warning in Europe " at the Séminaire en ligne du Groupe Jeunes de l’AFPS.
6/17/22: Gemma's paper (with Jack Baker) entitled: "Variance-based sensitivity analyses and uncertainty quantification for FEMA P-58 consequence predictions" was among the top 10 most downloaded and one of the most cited articles published within the Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics journal between 2019 and 2021.
6/17/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Towards next-generation tools for impact-based earthquake early warning " at the Young SECED event on Effectiveness and Usefulness of Earthquake Early Warning Systems.
5/28/22: Gemma was part of a delegation from the UKRI Tomorrow's Cities project that participated in the UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia.
5/23/22: Carlos Mesta's EGU22 presentation (co-written with Gemma and Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Modelling increasing natural-hazard risk due to urban growth in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal" was selected as a highlight of the "Natural hazards: urban growth and health impacts" session. Congrats Carlos!
5/23/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "A State-of-the-Art Approach to Modeling Future Multi-Hazard Risk, supporting People-Centred Decision Making " at EGU22 in, Vienna, Austria.
5/23/22: Gemma presented a poster entitled: "Towards next-generation impact-based earthquake early warning" at the Third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference in Bali, Indonesia.
4/26/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Towards next-generation impact-based earthquake early warning in Europe " at the final TURNkey workshop in Alicante, Spain.
4/11/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "The Tomorrow's Cities Decision Support Environment" at the MYRIAD-EU Workshop in IIASA, Vienna, Austria.
3/11/22: Congrats to Chenbo Wang, who was awarded a highly competitive UCL Overseas Research Scholarship. Chenbo will use this scholarship to pursue a PhD at UCL under the supervision of Gemma and Carmine Galasso .
3/8/22: Gemma's paper (with Elisa Zuccolo and Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Investigating the effectiveness of earthquake early warning across Europe" was selected for inclusion on the Editors' Highlights page for the Earth Science section of Nature Communications. The Editors’ Highlights pages showcase the 50 best papers recently published in an area.
2/18/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Towards next-generation earthquake early warning, using a risk-informed approach" as part of the CEE Winter Seminar Series at UC Irvine.
12/8/22: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Integrating earthquake early warnings into organisational resilience" at the EEFIT Research Projects showcase 2021.
9/4/21: Gemma's paper (with Francesca Bozzoni, Silvia Pistorio, and Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Developing a risk-informed decision-support system for earthquake early warning at a critical seaport " was accepted for publication in Reliability Engineering and System Safety.
9/1/21: Gemma was appointed as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Risk and Resilience Engineering within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at UCL.
5/26/21: Gemma gave an invited talk entitled: "A decision-making methodology for risk-informed earthquake early warning" at NORSAR.
5/12/21: "Comparing the performance of regional earthquake early warning algorithms in Europe", a journal paper lead by Elisa Zuccolo that Gemma contributed to, was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Earth Science/Geohazards and Georisks.
4/21/21: "Advancements in multi-rupture time-dependent seismic hazard modeling, including fault interaction", a journal paper lead by PhD student Salvatore Iacoletti, who Gemma co-supervises with Carmine Galasso, was accepted for publication in Earth-Science Reviews. Well done to Salvatore on his first journal paper!
4/14/21: "Innovations in earthquake risk reduction and resilience: Recent advances and challenges", a journal paper lead by Fabio Freddi that Gemma contributed to, was accepted for publication in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
3/25/21: Gemma's paper (with Omar Velazquez, Benazir Orihuela Gonzales, and Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Predicting approximate seismic responses in multistory buildings from real-time earthquake source information, for earthquake early warning applications" was accepted for publication in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.
3/10/21: Gemma joined the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Built Environment: Earthquake Engineering.
2/9/21: Gemma's paper (with Elisa Zuccolo and Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Accuracy and uncertainty analysis of selected methodological approaches to earthquake early warning in Europe" was accepted for publication in Seismological Research Letters.
12/30/20: Gemma's paper (with Carmine Galasso) entitled: "An end-user-oriented methodology for short-term time-dependent earthquake risk management" was accepted for publication in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.
12/15/20: Gemma was awarded (as the Co-PI, along with Carmine Galasso) a Motorola Solutions Foundation Grant for the project "Towards more Earthquake-resilient Schools through Early Warning and Disaster-Risk Education".
12/3/20: Gemma was awarded (as the PI) a UCL-Tohoku University Strategic Partner Funds grants for the project "Developing next-generation earthquake and tsunami early warning systems for the enhancement of disaster resilience in urban societies".
9/22/20: Gemma's paper (with Jack Baker) entitled: "Variance-based sensitivity analyses and uncertainty quantification for FEMA P-58 consequence predictions" was accepted for publication in Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics.
9/2/20: "A review of the technical and socio-organisational components of earthquake early warning systems", a journal paper lead by Omar Velazquez that Gemma contributed to, was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Earth Science/Geohazards and Georisks.
8/6/20: Gemma's paper (with Max Werner) entitled: "A novel approach to assessing nuisance risk from seismicity induced by UK shale gas development, with implications for future policy design" was accepted for publication in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
4/16/20: Gemma 's paper (with Carmine Galasso) entitled: "Earthquake early warning: Recent advances and perspectives " was accepted for publication in Earth-Science Reviews.
1/20/20: Gemma 's paper (with Max Werner and Brian Baptie) entitled: "A New Procedure for Evaluating Ground Motion Models, with Application to Hydraulic-Fracture-Induced Seismicity in the UK" was accepted for publication in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
11/1/19: Gemma joined EPICentre within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London as a Research Fellow in Earthquake Engineering.
9/17/19: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Implications of induced seismicity on nearby local populations" at the 2019 Unconventional Hydrocarbons in the UK Energy System Conference in Nottingham.
9/9/19: Gemma presented her paper entitled: "Understanding induced seismicity hazard related to shale gas exploration in the UK" at the SECED 2019 Conference in London.
9/4/19: Gemma gave a presentation entitled: "Understanding induced seismicity hazard related to shale gas exploration in the UK" at the BSM 2019 Conference in Edinburgh.
8/22/19: Gemma 's paper (with Erica Seville and Jack Baker) entitled: "Modeling post-earthquake business recovery time: An analytical framework" was accepted for publication in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
7/3/19: Gemma gave an invited presentation entitled: "Understanding and advancing earthquake-induced loss prediction" at the 2019 EpiCentre workshop on Recent Advances and Perspectives in Multi-Hazard Risk and Resilience at University College London.
2/1/19: Gemma joined the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geophysics.
12/10/18: Gemma successfully defended her PhD thesis in Earthquake Engineering at Stanford University, entitled: "Analysis, Evaluation, and Improvement of Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Damage and Loss Predictions".
12/2/18: Gemma's paper (with Jack Baker) entitled: "Improving FEMA P-58 non-structural component fragility functions and loss predictions" was accepted for publication in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering.
10/4/18: Gemma presented a poster entitled: "A methodology for evaluating component-level loss predictions of the FEMA P-58 seismic performance assessment procedure" at the 2018 Blume Center/SURI workshop on Convergence of Performance-Based Engineering with Urban Resilience at Stanford University.
8/22/18: Gemma's paper (with Jack Baker) entitled: "A methodology for evaluating component-level loss predictions of the FEMA P-58 seismic performance assessment procedure" was accepted for publication in Earthquake Spectra.
8/8/18: Gemma's paper (with Jack Baker) entitled: "Quantifying the benefits of building instruments to FEMA P-58 rapid post-earthquake damage and loss predictions" was accepted for publication in Engineering Structures.
6/25/18: Gemma presented her paper entitled: "Quantifying the benefits of building instruments to FEMA P-58 damage and loss predictions" at the 11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Los Angeles, California.