ROSE Curriculum
Name: Alessandra Miliziano
Thesis title: Simplified Frameworks and Tools for the Preliminary Assessment and Prioritization of Integrated Structural and Non-Structural Element Seismic Upgrades
Advisors: André Filiatrault
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Al Mouayed Bellah Nafeh
Thesis title: Advancements in Risk- and Loss-Based Methodologies for Large-Scale Assessment of Non-Ductile Infilled Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Advisors: Gerard J. O’Reilly
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Ricardo Rodríguez Plata
Thesis title: Insights into the seismic response of pile supported wharves subjected to liquefaction induced ground deformations: implications for design
Advisors: Carlo G. Lai
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Nevena Sipcic
Thesis title: Seismic Risk Assessment for RC Buildings Including Earthquake Sequences
Advisors: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Karim Aljawhari
Thesis title: Holistic Seismic Rehabilitation: Integrating Sustainability, Direct, and Indirect Losses in Risk-targeted Retrofit Design and Optimisation
Advisors: Carmine Galasso
Date defended: 23 May 2024
HYRIS Curriculum
Name: Margherita D'Ayala
Thesis title: Infrastructure for flood risk reduction: parametric cost functions for mitigation measures and correlation of risk mapping with funds distribution. The Italian case
Advisors: Mario Martina
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Laura Teresa Massano
Thesis title: In Climate Veritas: Methodologies for investigating the impact of climate variability on wine grape productivity in Italy
Advisors: Marco Gaetani; Giorgia Fosser
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Name: Antonios Stratidakis
Thesis title: A holistic approach toward chemical safety assessment and sustainable depollution innovation
Advisors: Dimosthenis A. Sarigiannis
Date defended: 23 May 2024
Rose Curriculum
Name: Luis Guillermo Alvarez Sanchez
Thesis title: Improved 3D Ground Motion Simulation for Structural Response Analysis
Advisors: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 18 November 2022
Name: Petros Kalakonas
Thesis title: Seismic risk assessment of building portfolios using artificial neural networks
Advisors: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 6 April 2023
Name: Derek Rodriguez Pacheco
Thesis title: A framework for the quantification of non-structural seismic performance factors
Advisors: André Filiatrault; Daniele Perrone; Roberto Nascimbene
Date defended: 6 April 2023
Name: Nicola Scattarreggia
Thesis title: Structural Assessment Up to Collapse of RC Bridges
Advisors: Rui Pinho; Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 6 April 2023
Name: Nicolò Damiani
Thesis title: Seismic performance of framed retrofit solutions for unreinforced masonry buildings
Advisors: Francesco Graziotti: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 8 June 2023
Name: Gianrocco Mucedero
Thesis title: Large scale seismic risk assessment of existing masonry-infilled buildings in Italy
Advisors: Ricardo Monteiro; Daniele Perrone
Date defended: 8 June 2023
Name: Volkan Ozsarac
Thesis title: Integrated Evaluation of Earthquake-Induced Economic Losses for Multi-Span Reinforced Concrete Bridges
Advisors: Ricardo Monteiro; Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 8 June 2023
HYRIS Curriculum
Name: Luigi Cesarini
Thesis title: The potential of machine learning for weather-related risks assessment
Advisors: Mario Martina
Date defended: 8 June 2023
Name: Riccardo Giusti
Thesis title: A NaTech assessment framework: environmental risk due to tank collapses triggered by flood
Advisors: Mario Martina; Marcello Arosio
Date defended: 8 June 2023
Name: Wazita Scott
Thesis title: Skill assessment of sub-seasonal forecast of extreme precipitation events over Italy
Advisors: Marco Gaetani; Giorgia Fosser
Date defended: 8 June 202
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Bryan Chalarca Echeverri
Thesis title: Implementation of fluid viscous dampers as a seismic protection system and its effects on the structural and nonstructural seismic response
Advisors:
Date defended: 25 February 2022
Name: Roberto Merino Vela
Thesis title: Direct displacement-based seismic design of non-structural elements
Advisors:
Date defended: 25 February 2022
Name: Davit Shahnazaryan
Thesis title: Integrated performance-based seismic design: traversing affordances for practical implementation
Advisors:
Date defended: 25 February 2022
Name: Numan Eren
Thesis title: Response specific scaling of ground motion records
Advisors: Rui Pinho; Halûk Sucuoğlu
Date defended: 9 June 2022
Name: Jimena Martin Tempestti
Thesis title: Effects of elastic shear modulus on soil liquefaction modelling and effective stress analysis
Advisors: Misko Cubrinovski; Carlo G. Lai
Date defended: 9 June 2022
Name: Enes Veliu
Thesis title: Advanced earthquake modelling of Human Losses
Advisors: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 9 June 2022
Name: Martina Caruso
Thesis title: A life cycle framework for integrated assessment and retrofitting of buildings
Advisors: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 9 June 2022
Name: Marco Miglietta
Thesis title: An innovative timber retrofit for unreinforced masonry structures: impacts on seismic performance and considerations on environmental sustainability
Advisors: Guido Magenes; Francesco Graziotti
Date defended: 9 June 2022
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Camilo Andres Perdomo Horta
Thesis title: Direct Economic Loss Assessment of Multi-Span Continuous RC Bridges under Seismic Hazard
Advisors: Ricardo Monteiro, Halûk Sucuoğlu
Date defended: 26 March 2020
Name: Alejandro José Calderon Carpio
Thesis title: Earthquake Loss Assessment Models and Forecast of Forthcoming Risk within the Context of the Sendai Framework: Study Cases in Central America and the Caribbean
Advisor: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 5 June 2020
Name: Iason Grigoratos
Thesis title: Time-dependent seismic hazard and risk assessment due to wastewater disposal in Oklahoma
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro, Ellen Rathje
Date defended: 26 March 2020
Name: Satyadhrik Sharma
Thesis title: Investigations into the Seismic out-of-plane two-way bending behaviour of unreinforced masonry walls
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Francesco Graziotti
Date defended: 5 June 2020
Name: António José Moutinho Da Silva
Thesis title: Implications of Earthquake-Induced Loss Control in Seismic Design Provisions
Advisors: Ricardo Monteiro, Jose Miguel Castro
Date defended: 5 June 2020
Name: Omer Odabasi
Thesis title: Probabilistic Seismic Risk Analysis of High-Rise Buildings: Critical Considerations in Site-Specific and Regional Applications
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 2 December 2020
REM Curriculum
Name: Carlotta Rodriquez
Thesis title: A framework to assess disaster resilience based on the sustainable development goals
Advisor: Ricardo Monteiro
Date defended: 3 April 2020
Name: Jamal Al-dabbeek
Thesis title: Earthquake and Flood Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Middle East
Advisor: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 5 June 2020
Name: Emma Schiavon
Thesis title: Science, Policy and Use of Green Infrastructures for Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction in Agriculture
Advisor: Andrea Taramelli
Date defended: 5 June 2020
WRR Curriculum
Name: Beatrice Monteleone
Thesis title: Development of a drought loss index for the agricultural sector in the Caribbean
Advisor: Mario Martina
Date defended: 3 April 2020
ECR Curriculum
Name: Marco Giovanni Persico
Thesis title: Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution and Climate Change Policies in European Cities - the case of Milan
Advisor: Dimosthenis Sarigiannis
Date defended: 3 April 2020
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Stylianos Kallioras
Thesis title: Contributions to the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings Under Induced Seismicity
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna, Francesco Graziotti
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Andrea Rossi
Thesis title: Structural and Economic Performance of RC Buildings with Different Types and Configurations of Masonry Infills
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Paolo Morandi
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Mabè Sofia Villar Vega
Thesis title: Exploring Loss Ratio Prediction Equations in Probabilistic Earthquake Loss Assessment
Advisor: Vitor Silva
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Athanasios Papadopoulos
Thesis title: Towards Probabilistic Seismic Risk Assessment Accounting for Seismicity Clustering and Damage Accumulation
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 24 May 2019
REM Curriculum
Name: Marcello Arosio
Thesis title: A Modelling Approach Based on Graph Theory Towards More Holistic Assessment of Natural Hazard Risk of Complex System
Advisor: Mario Martina
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Julia Harrer
Thesis title: Understanding an Island of Extremes: State Capacity and Disaster Risk in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Advisors: Paolo Roberto Graziano, Alberto Monti
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Annibale Vecere
Thesis title: Near Real-time Flood Loss Estimation as a Basis for Risk Financing Mechanisms
Advisors: Mario Martina, Ricardo Monteiro
Date defended: 8 February 2019
Name: Cigdem Yilmaz
Thesis title: Probabilistic Loss Assessment Due to Earthquake-induced Ground Failure
Advisors: Vitor Silva, Graeme Weatherill
Date defended: 24 May 2019
Name: Jefferson Jair Torres Porras
Thesis title: Crossing borders: A comparative assessment of community resilience to natural hazards in Arica, Chile and Tacna, Peru
Advisors: Christopher Burton, Ricardo Monteiro
Date defended: 3 April 2020
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Héctor José Pérez Barrera
Thesis title: System-Level Seismic Robustness
Advisors: Roberto Nascimbene, Stefano Pamapanin
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Guido Andreotti
Thesis title: Non-linear Constitutive Model of a Beam Element With Cyclic Degradation and Damage Assessment for Advanced Dynamic Analysis of Soil Structure Interaction Problems
Advisor: Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Andrea Spillatura
Thesis title: From Record Selection to Risk Targeted Spectra for Risk-Based Assessment and Design
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Stefano Bracchi
Thesis title: Improved Tools and Strategies for the Derivation of Analytical Fragility Curves of Existing URM Buildings
Advisor: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Yadong Jiang
Thesis title: Seismic Assessment of Composite Frame with Concrete-filled Steel Tube Columns
Advisors: José Miguel Castro, Ricardo Monteiro
Date defended: 8 February 2018
REM Curriculum
Name: Rui Pedro Carrapatoso Figueiredo
Thesis title: Development of Innovative Methods and Modelling Approaches Towards More Balanced and Efficient Flood Risk Models
Advisor: Mario Martina
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Mjrko Rennola
Thesis title: Development and Piloting the Disaster Resilience Framework for Latin American and the Caribbean
Advisor: Christopher Burton
Date defended: 24 May 2018
Name: Tatiana Skalon
Thesis title: Tailoring Disaster Risk Financing Instruments to Country Contexts: the Case of Central Asia
Advisors: Alberto Monti
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Arianna Morelli
Thesis title: Measuring Community Resilience to Disasters Through Stakeholders’ Frames and Practices: Towards a Resilience Informed Interactive Governance
Advisors: Andrea Taramelli
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Catarina Quintela Marques da Costa
Thesis title: Assessment of Earthquake Impacts due to Disruption in Transportation Networks using Open Tools and Datasets
Advisors: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 8 February 2018
WRR Curriculum
Name: Silvia De Angeli
Thesis title: Modelling of Single and Multiple Hazards Impacts on Complex Territorial Systems: Main Challenges and Definition of New Methodological Approaches
Advisor: Roberto Rudari
Date defended: 8 February 2018
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Cecilia Ines Nievas
Thesis title: Design of Structures Subject to Multidirectional Seismic Excitation
Advisor: Timothy Sullivan
Date defended: 16 December 2016
Name: Annalisa Rosti
Thesis title: A Contribution to the Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of URM Buildings
Advisor: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 16 December 2016
Name: Gerard O'Reilly
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Existing RC Frame Buildings in Italy
Advisor: Timothy Sullivan
Date defended: 16 December 2016
Name: Riccardo Raimondo Milanesi
Thesis title: Seismic Performance of a Newly Conceived Masonry Infill with Sliding Joints
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Paolo Morandi
Date defended: 16 December 2016
Name: Milad Oliaee
Thesis title: Three Dimensional Macro Modeling of Masonry Infills in RC Frame Buildings
Advisor: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 24 May 2018
Name: Claudia Zelaschi
Thesis title: Seismic Assessment of Spatially Distributed RC Bridge Portfolios
Advisor: Ricardo Monteiro
Date defended: 25 May 2017
Name: Alexander Kagermanov
Thesis title: RC Fiber-Based Frame Elements with Normal-Shear Stress Interaction
Advisor: Paola Ceresa
Date defended: 16 December 2016
Name: José Alejandro Morales Gómez
Thesis title: Seismic Shear and Moment Demands in RC Wall Buildings
Advisor: Paola Ceresa
Date defended: 24 May 2018
Name: Yen-Shin Chen
Thesis title: Incorporating Near-fault Directivity Effect in Probability Seismic Hazard Assessment
Advisor: Marco Pagani
Date defended: 25 May 2017
REM Curriculum
Name: Lilit Gevorgyan
Thesis title: Human-Environment Systems Vulnerability to Floods: Integrating Spatial Information and Ecosystem Services
Advisor: Christopher Burton
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Kamal Ahmed
Thesis title: Role of Risk Governance in Influencing Behaviour of Economic Losses
Advisor: Alberto Monti
Date defended: 8 February 2018
Name: Benjamin John Beccari
Thesis title: Untangling the Drivers of Resilience: Understanding the influences of Local Government Action on Disaster Risk Reduction
Advisor: Alberto Monti
Date defended: 15 December 2016
WRR Curriculum
Name: Luca Cenci
Thesis title: Soil Moisture-Data Assimilation for Improving Flash Flood Prediction in Mediterranean Catchments Case Study: ASCAT and Sentinel 1 Derived Products
Advisor: Giorgio Boni
Date defended: 15 December 2016
ROSE Curriculum
Name: Alfredo Gonzalez Fonseca
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Analysis and Design of Floor Diaphragms with Dual Systems
Advisors: Roberto Nascimbene, Enrico Spacone
Date defended: 15 December 2016
Name: Matthew James Fox
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Assessment of RC Wall Buildings
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Katrin Beyer
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Marco Furinghetti
Thesis title: Assessment and Modelling of the Seismic Response of Curved Surface Slider Devices under Multi-Axial Input
Advisors: Alberto Pavese, Constantin Christopoulos
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Luis Edgar Rodriguez Abreu
Thesis title: Characterization of Subduction Source Models for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis
Advisors: Julio García, Marco Pagani, Graeme Weatherill
Date defended: 19 May 2016
Name: David Patrick Welch
Thesis title: Non-Structural Element Considerations for Contemporary Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
Advisor: Timothy Sullivan
Date defended: 15 December 2016
Name: Chiara Casotto
Thesis title: Damage-Dependent Fragility Assessment: Critical Issues and Recommendations
Advisors: Helen Crowley, Vitor Silva, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 19 May 2016
Name: Mohsen Kohrangi
Thesis title: Beyond Simple Scalar Ground Motion IMs in Structural Risk Assessment
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Babak Nasrollah Beigi
Thesis title: Seismic Isolation of Confined Masonry Buildings Using Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators
Advisor: Alberto Pavese
Date defended: 11 December 2015
REM Curriculum
Name: Juan Ruben Gonzalez Cardenas
Thesis title: Fuzzy Methodologies Applied to Holistic Seismic Risk Estimation
Advisors: Helen Crowley, Francisco J. Mugica, Angela Nebot
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Sevgi Aktas Özcebe
Thesis title: Integrated Seismic Risk Assessment of Turkey
Advisors: Christopher Burton, Helen Crowley, Vitor Silva
Date defended: 25 May 2017
Name: Gemechis Gudina Wakene
Thesis title: Conceptualization and Measuring Community Resilience to Slow Onset Disasters in Developing Nations
Advisor: Christopher Burton
Date defended: 15 December 2016
ROSE School
Name: Emanuele Brunesi
Thesis title: Influence of Structural Openings on the Buckling Strength of Cylindrical Steel Tanks
Advisors: Roberto Nascimbene, J. M. Rotter
Date defended: 5 December 2014
Name: Leonidas Alexandros Kouris
Thesis title: Dynamic Identification and Assessment of the Response of a Full Scale Unreinforced Masonry Building Tested on Shaking Table
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Manya Georgieva Deyanova
Thesis title: Assessment and Retrofit Techniques for Industrial RC Prefabricated Structures
Advisors: Roberto Nascimbene, Stefano Pampanin
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Valeria Fort
Thesis title: Retrofit Solution for Gravity-Load-Designed RC Frame Structures Employing Self-Centering Energy Dissipative (SCED) Braces
Advisors: Alberto Pavese, Constantin Christopoulos
Date defended: 5 December 2014
Name: Ariel Ricardo Roldán Abellán
Thesis title: Displacement-Based Design Steel Moment Resisting Frames Accounting for Joint Typology
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Gaetano Della Corte
Date defended: 5 December 2014
Name: Amaryllis Mouyiannou
Thesis title: Implications of Cumulative Damage on the Seismic Vulnerability of Masonry Buildings
Advisor: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 5 December 2014
Name: Alessandro Zanardi
Thesis title: Sandwich Panel Structures: Seismic Response Assessment
Advisors: Alberto Pavese, Bin Zaho
Date defended: 5 December 2014
Name: Romain Ribeiro de Sousa
Thesis title: Development and Verification of Innovative Modelling Approaches for the Analysis of Framed Structures Subjected to Earthquake Action
Advisors: Antonio Correia, Joao Pacheco De Almeida, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 11 December 2015
ROSE School
Name: Mirko Morosi
Thesis title: Probabilistic Assessment Tools for Earthquake Ground Motion Amplification in Nonlinear Coarse-Grained Soils
Advisor: Paolo Bazzurro
Date defended: 11 December 2015
Name: Michele Palmieri
Thesis title: A Study on the Seismic Performance and Selected Strengthening Solutions of Multi-Block Stone Monuments
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Ettore Fausto Cesare Fagà
Thesis title: A Precast Composite Technology for Seismic Design of Multi-Storey Buildings
Advisors: Roberto Nascimbene, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Francesco Graziotti
Thesis title: Contributions Towards a Displacement-Based Seismic Assessment of Masonry Structures
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna
Date defended: 6 December 2013
ROSE School
Name: Hossein Agha Beigi
Thesis title: Retrofit of Soft Storey Buildings using Gapped Inclined Brace Systems
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Gian Michele Calvi, Constantin Christopoulos
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Ali Guney Ozcebe
Thesis title: Seismic Stabilization of Slopes with Large Diameter Piles
Advisor: Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Jetson Ronald Abraham
Thesis title: Study of Basin-Induced Surface Waves and their Numerical Simulation
Advisors: Carlo Giovanni Lai, Apostolos Papageorgiou
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Ilaria Enrica Senaldi
Thesis title: The Influence of Floor and Roof Diaphragms on the Seismic Response of Existing Masonry Buildings
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna
Date defended: 7 December 2012
Name: Enrico Da Lozzo
Thesis title: Hydrodynamic Effects on Seismic Response of Bridge Piers
Advisors: Ferdinando Auricchio, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 7 December 2012
Name: Sanja Hak
Thesis title: Damage Control of Masonry Infills in Seismic Design
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Paolo Morandi
Date defended: 7 December 2012
Name: Seyed Abolfazl Mirfattah
Thesis title: Assessment of Seismic Vulnerability and Risk of Pile-Supported Wharves
Advisor: Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 6 December 2013
Name: Igor Lanese
Thesis title: Development and Implementation of an Integrated Architecture for Real-Time Dynamic Hybrid Testing in the Simulation of Seismic Isolated Structures
Advisor: Alberto Pavese
Date defended: 7 December 2012
ROSE School
Name: Sabino Nicola Tarque Ruiz
Thesis title: Numerical Modelling of the Seismic Behaviour of Adobe Buildings
Advisors: Enrico Spacone, Humberto Varum
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Naveed Ahmad
Thesis title: Seismic Risk Assessment and Loss Estimation of Building Stock of Pakistan
Advisors: Helen Crowley, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Sara Broglio
Thesis title: Bayesian Network Framework for Macro-Scale Seismic Risk Assessment and Decision Support for Bridges
Advisors: Helen Crowley, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Mostafa Masoudi
Thesis title: Secondary Dynamic Torsion in Structural Systems
Advisors: Alessandro Dazio, Polat Gülkan, M.J.Nigel Priestley
Date defended: 7 December 2012
Name: Alberto Lago
Thesis title: Seismic Design of Structures with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Timothy Maley
Thesis title: Seismic Design of Mixed MRF Systems
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Gaetano Della Corte
Date defended: 6 December 2011
ROSE School
Name: Andres Felipe Alonso Rodriguez
Thesis title: Assessment of Elastic Acceleration and Drift Demands in Buildings Through Generalized Continuous Models
Advisor: Eduardo Miranda
Date defended: 7 December 2012
Name: António Santos Carvalho Cabral Araújo Correia
Thesis title: Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction in the Seismic Design of Bridges: Towards Macro-Element Modeling for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
Advisors: Steve Kramer, Alain Pecker, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Armando Calabrese
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Design of Maritime Wharf Structures
Advisor: Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Seyed Ali Moayed Alaee
Thesis title: Direct Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Cold-formed Steel Frame-Wood Panel Structures
Advisor: Roberto Nascimbene, Timothy Sullivan
Date defended: 6 December 2011
Name: Teraphan Ornthammarath
Thesis title: Influence of Hazard Modeling Methods and the Uncertainty of GMPEs on the Results of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses
Advisor: John Douglas, Carlo Giovanni Lai, Ragnar Sigbjornsson
Date defended: 3 December 2010
Name: Heidy Sanchez Lizarraga
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Analysis and Design of Design of Earth Dams
Advisor: Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 3 December 2010
Name: Chiara Smerzini
Thesis title: The Earthquake Source in Numerical Modeling of Seismic Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Earth Media
Advisor: Roberto Paolucci
Date defended: 3 December 2010
Name: Manuela Villani
Thesis title: High Resolution SHA in the Vicinity of Earthquake Sources
Advisor: Ezio Faccioli
Date defended: 3 December 2010
ROSE School
Name: Gabriele Attanasi
Thesis title: An Innovative Superelastic System for Base Isolation
Advisors: Ferdinando Auricchio, Gregory L. Fenves
Date defended: 30 November 2009
Name: Kushan Kalmith Wijesundara
Thesis title: Design of Concentrically Braced Steel Frames with RHS Shape Braces
Advisors: Davide Bolognini, Roberto Nascimbene, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 30 November 2009
Name: Bhuiyan Mohammad Towhidur Rahman
Thesis title: Response of a Diagrid Tall Building to Wind and Earthquake Actions
Advisor: Roberto Leon
Date defended: 3 December 2010
Name: Vassilis Mpampatsikos
Thesis title: DDBD of Rocking Walls With Mild Steel Dissipaters
Advisors: Davide Bolognini, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 30 November 2009
Name: Gopal Adhikari
Thesis title: Verification of Nonlinear Static Procedures for Plan Asymmetric Buildings Under Bidirectional Seismic Input
Advisor: Rui Pinho
Date defended: 30 November 2009
Name: Domenico Pennucci
Thesis title: Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall RC Wall Buildings
Advisors: Gian Michele Calvi, Timothy Sullivan
Date defended: 3 December 2010
ROSE School
Name: Ihsan Engin Bal
Thesis title: Displacement-Based Earthquake Loss Assessment: Method Development and Application to Turkish Building Stock
Advisors: Rui Pinho, Helen Crowley
Date defended: 5 December 2008
Name: Boyan Mihaylov
Thesis title: Behaviour of Deep Reinforced Concrete Beams under Monotonic and Reversed Cyclic Load
Advisors: Michael Collins, Evan C. Bentz
Date defended: 5 December 2008
Name: Pathmanathan Rajeev
Thesis title: Role of Confidence Factor in Seismic Assessment of Structures
Advisors: Paolo E. Pinto, Paolo Franchin
Date defended: 5 December 2008
Name: Jorge Alberto Rivera
Thesis title: On the Development of Seismic Design Forces for Flexible Floor Diaphragms in Reinforced Concrete Wall Buildings
Advisors: Rui Pinho
Date defended: 5 December 2008
Name: Eleni Smyrou
Thesis title: Seismic Design of T-Shaped RC Walls
Advisors: Timothy Sullivan, Gian Michele Calvi, M.J.Nigel Priestley
Date defended: 5 December 2008
Name: João Pacheco de Almeida
Thesis title: Flexure-Shear Element for 3D Inelastic Analysis of Frames
Advisors: Rui Pinho
Date defended: 30 November 2009
ROSE School
Name: Ana Acevedo Jaramillo
Thesis title: Influence of Clamping Stresses on the Shear Strength of Concrete Slabs under Uniform Loads
Advisors: Michael Collins, Evan C. Bentz
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Katrin Beyer
Thesis title: Seismic Design of Torsionally Eccentric Buildings with U-Shaped RC Walls
Advisors: Alessandro Dazio, M.J.Nigel Priestley
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Carlos Andres Blandon Uribe
Thesis title: Seismic Analysis and Design of Port Structures (Pile-Supported Wharves)
Advisors: Jose Restrepo, Carlo Giovanni Lai
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Paola Ceresa
Thesis title: Development of a Fibre Flexure-Shear Model for Seismic Analysis of RC Framed Structures
Advisors: Rui Pinho, Lorenza Petrini
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Arun Menon
Thesis title: Out-of-Plane Seismic Response of Unreinforced Masonry
Advisors: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Kristel Carolina Meza Fajardo
Thesis title: Numerical Simulation of Wave Propagation in Unbounded Elastic Domains using the Spectral Element Method
Advisors: Apostolos S. Papageorgiou
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Dario Pietra
Thesis title: Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Isolated Bridges
Advisors: Gian Michele Calvi, Rui Pinho
Date defended: 3 December 2007
Name: Maria Rota
Thesis title: Advances in the Derivation of Fragility Curves for Masonry Buildings
Advisors: Guido Magenes, Andrea Penna
Date defended: 3 December 2007
ROSE School
Name: Paolo Morandi
Thesis title: New Proposals for Simplified Seismic Design of Masonry Buildings
Advisors: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 11 December 2006
Name: Simone Peloso
Thesis title: Seismic Response Assessment of RC Frames using a Simplified Linear Approach based on Response Factors
Advisors: Alberto Pavese
Date defended: 11 December 2006
Name: Jarg Didier Pettinga
Thesis title: Prediction and Mitigation of Residual Deformations due to Seismic Demand, including Asymmetric Structural Response
Advisors: Stefano Pampanin, Constantin Christopoulos, M.J.Nigel Priestley
Date defended: 11 December 2006
ROSE School
Name: Helen Crowley
Thesis title: Development of a Displacement-Based Procedure for Earthquake Loss Assessment
Advisors: Rui Pinho, Julian Bommer
Date defended: 1 December 2005
Name: Davide Fugazza
Thesis title: Use of Shape-Memory Alloy Devices in Earthquake Engineering: Mechanical Properties, Advanced Constitutive Modelling and Structural Applications
Advisors: Ferdinando Auricchio, Reginald DesRoches
Date defended: 1 December 2005
Name: Giorgio Lupoi
Thesis title: Assessment of Seismic Performance for Hospital Systems
Advisors: Paolo E. Pinto, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 1 December 2005
Name: Alessandro Reali
Thesis title: Advanced Computational Techniques for the Study of Traditional and Innovative Seismic Devices
Advisors: Ferdinando Auricchio, Tom Hughes
Date defended: 1 December 2005
Name: Marko Ijke Schotanus
Thesis title: Seismic Performance Assessment of Oil Refineries
Advisors: Paolo E. Pinto, Paolo Franchin
Date defended: 1 December 2005
Name: Timothy Sullivan
Thesis title: Seismic Design of Frame-Wall Structures
Advisors: M.J.Nigel Priestley, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 1 December 2005
ROSE School
Name: Chiara Casarotti
Thesis title: Adaptive Pushover-Based Methods for Seismic Assessment and Design of Bridge Structures
Advisors: Rui Pinho, Gian Michele Calvi
Date defended: 29 November 2004
Name: Damian Noel Grant
Thesis title: Modelling and Analysis of High-Damping Rubber Bearings for the Seismic Protection of Bridges
Advisors: Gregory Fenves, Ferdinando Auricchio
Date defended: 29 November 2004
Name: Manuel Alfredo Lopez Menjivar
Thesis title: Adaptive Pushover of 2-D Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Advisors: Rui Pinho
Date defended: 29 November 2004
Name: Luis Fernando Restrepo Velez
Thesis title: Seismic Risk of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
Advisors: Guido Magenes
Date defended: 29 November 2004