Mission

Research areas:
- Performance-based seismic assessment of reinforced concrete and unreinforced masonry structures and in particular of their deformation capacity
- Development of numerical tools for the simulation of these elements and their implementation in open source code
- Large-scale testing of structural components and buildings; development of representative loading protocols

Biography

Since 2017 Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), EPFL. Head of the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) Laboratory
2010-2017 Assistant Professor, EPFL.
2008-2010 Post-doctoral researcher, ETH Zürich.
2003-2007 Ph.D., Roseschool / Università di Pavia, Italy.
2001-2003 Ove Arup & Partners, Advanced Technology and Research Group, London.
2001 Diploma, Civil engineering, ETH Zürich.