(in alphabetical order)
 | Professor Gian Michele Calvi |
IUSS Pavia, Italy | |
"Seismic isolation in loss-based design" | |
Gian Michele Calvi is Professor at the IUSS Pavia, Director of Science of the Eucentre Foundation, Italy, and Executive vice-President of the IAEE. He graduated at the University of Pavia and received a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD from the Politecnico di Milano and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cujo, Mendoza, Argentina. He has been the founder of the Eucentre Foundation and of the ROSE School (with M.J.N. Priestley). In 1996 he created the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis), with A.S. Elnashai and N.N. Ambraseys, where he still serves as associate editor. He is author of hundreds of publications and of a few books, including: Seismic design and retrofit of bridges (with M.J.N. Priestley and F. Seible, 1996), Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures (with M.J.N. Priestley and M.J. Kowalsky, 2007), Seismicdesignandanalysisoftanks (withR. Nascimbene, 2023). In the occasion of the WCEE 2024 he has published a “Master Series” monograph, The art of seismic design, by invitation of the IAEE President and Past President. He has been invited keynote speakers in tens of conferences, including two World and four European Conferences on Earthquake Engineering. He has been designer, consultant or checker for hundreds of structural projects, including: the Rion-Antirion cable stayed bridge (1999-2004, 2883 m, in Greece); the Anatolian Viaduct (2000-2003, 119 spans, in Turkey); the new housing system after L’Aquila earthquake (2009-2010, with 185 buildings seismically isolated with more than 7,000 devices, completed in about six months); the construction of 103 schools in Costa Rica (2013-2018, for the IAD bank); the assessment and strengthening program in the area of Groningen, in The Netherlands (2013-2024, due to problems of induced seismicity). He has been always active in conceptual innovation in seismic design, focusing on masonry in his early days, on bridges, displacement-based design and seismic isolation from the nineties. | |
 | Professor Serena Cattari |
University of Genoa, Italy | |
“Modelling and analyses for the seismic assessment of existing URM buildings: research challenges and engineering-practice implications” | |
Serena Cattari (SC) is Full Professor at the University of Genova, Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Her core research topics are: numerical modelling and seismic performance-based assessment of existing and historical masonry buildings; seismic risk analysis of the built environment at large scale; structural monitoring. SC is authors of more than 250 contributions (more than 80 peer-reviewed international journal papers) and is the coordinator of the PhD program on Security, Risk and Vulnerability (https://sicurezza.unige.net). SC participated to several projects at national and international scale and is currently Associate Editor of Earthquake Spectra journal. With reference to the expertise in numerical modelling, SC has provided significant contributions to the equivalent frame modelling approach. In particular, she is contributing to the development of the software Tremuri, widely used at national and international scale by both researchers and practitioners. Recently, SC coordinated the “URM nonlinear modelling-Benchmark project” funded by the Italian Department of Civil Protection within ReLUIS research programs. The project was mainly addressed to provide a critical analysis and a systematic comparison of the results obtained by using several modelling approaches and software package tools on selected benchmark examples to outline a useful and qualified reference to the engineering and scientific community. Additionally, she participated to the drafting panel of CNR-DT 212 Document “Guide for the probabilistic assessment of the seismic safety of existing buildings” issued by Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy. | |
| Helen Crowley |
Secretary General, GEM Foundation | |
“Why Seismic Hazard Modelling Has Become a Risky Business” | |
Helen Crowley is the current Secretary-General of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation. She holds an M.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Pavia (ROSE School). She has collaborated closely with both the engineering seismology and earthquake engineering communities in Europe, as a member of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Seismology Consortium, and the coordinator of the development of the first, open European Seismic Risk Model (ESRM20), and won the 2009 European Geosciences Union Plinius Medal for her contributions to the field. Her research has touched on many topics related to seismic risk mitigation, from the definition of seismic actions for earthquake loss models and seismic design codes, to the development of regional exposure and vulnerability models for the built environment. She has nearly 200 publications, including more than 70 papers in international peer-reviewed publications, covering many aspects of earthquake engineering with a common thread of earthquake risk estimation. Helen Crowley is currently Editor of Earthquake Spectra, where she previously served as an Associate Editor. She is also the recipient of the 2012 Shah Family Innovation Prize. | |
| Professor Emeritus Michael N. Fardis |
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece | |
“Comparison of two generations of Eurocodes for earthquake-resistant concrete buildings through systematic applications" | |
Michael N. Fardis received his Civil Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (1971), MSc Degrees in Civil Engineering (1977) and in Nuclear Engineering (1978) and a PhD in Structural Engineering (1979), all from the Massachusetts Institute of Tehcnology (MIT). He was appointed Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at MIT in February 1979 and promoted to Associate Professor in 1982. He returned to his home country as Professor of concrete structures at the University of Patras, from which he retired in 2016 as Emeritus Professor. He is Honorary President of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), having served as fib President in 2009 and 2010, Deputy President in 2007 and 2008 and Presidium member from 2002 to 2012. He was Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) from 2012 to 2020 and is IAEE Honorary Member. He is Editor of the top journal in earthquake engineering, "Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics" since 2016 and Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering. He led the development of the first generation of the European Standard Eurocode 8 "Design of structures for earthquake resistance" as Chairman of CEN/TC250/SC8 from 1998 to 2005 and has been deeply involved in the development of the second generation of all Eurocodes as Vice Chairman of CEN/TC250 "Structural Eurocodes" from 2013 to 2022 and member of its Management Group till today. He has authored four books on seismic design of concrete structures, published by Springer, CRC Press or Thomas Telford/ICE Publishing (one of them translated to three other languages) and edited four books published by Springer and over 10 other international books. Results of his research, published in over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals or over 200 papers in conference proceedings, are widely quoted in the international literature and have been extensively adopted in design rules of the first or second generation of Eurocode 8. He has been awarded by ACI the 1993 Wason Medal for the best paper in materials. Last year the President of the Hellenic Republic conferred to him the Prize for Excellence in University Teaching. | |
 | Professor Paulo B. Lourenço |
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal | |
“Masonry enclosures: Damage, applications, lessons learned from testing and new solutions” | |
Professor and Head of the Structural Group at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. President of ICOMOS ISCARSAH - International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage. Experienced in the fields of non-destructive testing, advanced experimental and numerical techniques, innovative repair and strengthening techniques, and earthquake engineering. Specialist in structural conservation and forensic engineering, with work on 100+ monuments including 18 UNESCO World Heritage. Leader of the revision of the European masonry code (EN 1996-1-1). Coordinator of the European Master on Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, with alumni from 70+ countries and European Heritage / Europa Nostra Award (most prestigious in Europe). Editor of the International Journal of Architectural Heritage and advisor of the Conference Series on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions. Supervised 80 PhD theses and coordinate multiple national and international research projects. Awarded an Advanced European Research Council Grant to develop an integrated seismic assessment approach for heritage buildings. Coordinator of an Innovative Training Network on sustainable building lime applications via circular economy and biomimetic approaches with 15 PhD students across Europe. | |
| Professor Miha Tomaževič |
Slovenian Building and Civil Engineering Institute, Slovenia | |
“Testing for the assessment of earthquake resistance of heritage masonry buildings: nondestructive versus destructive, laboratory versus in-situ testing ” | |
Since 1967, Professor Tomaževič has worked at Slovenian Building and Civil Engineering Institute. He was heading section of earthquake engineering since 1977, and acted as the director of the Institute from 1996 to 2005. He partially retired in 2009 and worked on a half-time basis until 2017. Among other topics, the scope of his work included experimental and analytical research in seismic resistance of masonry buildings. Important part of his research was aimed at reducing seismic vulnerability of existing, including architectural cultural heritage buildings. Professor Tomaževič has been visiting professor to the Universities of Trento, Padua, Brescia, and Trieste in Italy, Universidad de Chile, Technical University of Dresden, Germany, as well as the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee. He has given more than 90 lectures and seminars at many universities and research institutes in Europe and the USA, Japan, China, Chile, Mexico, and India. He worked in several national and international technical committees, and served as an expert for Italian and Mexican goverments, UNIDO and the World Bank. He published more than 400 papers and 7 books, collecting almost 4900 citations (Google scholar). Professor Tomaževič is member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Slovenian Academy of Engineers. He is recipient of a number of awards and recognitions in Slovenia and abroad. | |
