Some Recent Advances and Perspectives in Catastrophe Risk Engineering for Multiple Natural Hazards

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Date 25.10.2019
Hour 12:1513:00
Speaker Dr Carmine Galasso, Associate Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering in the University College London (UCL), UK
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Abstract:
Probabilistic catastrophe (CAT) risk models are becoming increasingly popular tools for estimating potential loss due to natural hazards, including earthquakes, windstorms, and floods. Such models incorporate detailed databases and scientific understanding of the highly complex physical phenomena of natural hazards and engineering expertise about how infrastructure, buildings, and their contents respond to those hazards.
This talk will present some recent advances in CAT modelling for earthquake and wind, namely: 1) the use of physics-based and stochastic ground-motion simulations for seismic hazard and risk modelling; 2) the development of a real-time CAT modelling framework for designing engineering applications of earthquake early warning; 3) the development of computational tools (e.g., advanced simulations, machine-learning techniques) for modelling risk to offshore wind energy; 4) the proposal of a probabilistic framework to assess wind-seismic interaction in typical structural details (i.e., connections) of tall steel buildings.
The talk will finally introduce and discuss some perspectives in CAT modelling for cascading and multiple hazards at different spatial scales (from a single asset to portfolio of buildings), with special focus on developing countries. In fact, developing countries are disproportionately affected by natural hazards and lack in coping capacities. CAT modelling for developing countries presents specific challenges in terms of quantity and quality of the available input data. Specifically, this talk will present some highlights of a number of current UCL projects on multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment of community-based infrastructure (e.g., schools, hospitals, heritage assets) in the Philippines, Indonesia, and China.
 
Bio:
Dr Carmine Galasso is an Associate Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering in the University College London (UCL)'s Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (CEGE), UK, and a part-time Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore (IUSS) Pavia, Italy, in the Centro di Formazione e Ricerca per la Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico (ROSE School). Prior to joining UCL, Carmine has worked as a Catastrophe Risk Modeler at Applied Insurance Research (AIR) Worldwide, San Francisco, USA; and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Performance-based Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Carmine earned his PhD in Earthquake Risk at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, in January 2011.

Carmine’s research focuses on the development and application of probabilistic and statistical methods and tools for catastrophe risk modelling and disaster risk reduction. He is investigating risks to building portfolios and infrastructure exposed to multiple natural hazards, including earthquakes, strong wind, and flooding, with special emphasis on developing countries. He has authored >150 peer-reviewed papers and is/has been the PI on grants totaling £2M in the last three years. He is a key co-I of the newly funded £19.6 million Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Urban Disaster Risk Hub, where he chairs the Risk Modelling Technical Activity Group. His research is funded by the UK Research Councils, the European Commission (Horizon 2020), the British Council, the Chinese International Centre for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction (ICCR-DRR), the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the (Mexican) Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), the World Bank and its  Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the Motorola Solution Foundation, and the Willis Research Network.
 

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Organizer

  • Profs. Brice Lecampion & Alexandre Alahi    

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  • Prof. Dimitrios Lignos 

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