The invited lecturers are presented in alphabetical order.
| Professor Ioannis Anastasopoulos |
| ETH Zurich, Switzerland | |
“Exploiting nonlinear soil-foundation response in defence of the superstructure” | |
Ioannis Anastasopoulos has been Full Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2016. Since 2023, he is also Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. He specializes in geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil–structure interaction, combining numerical with experimental methods. He is the inaugural recipient of the ISSMGE Young Researcher Award in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, and winner of the 2012 Shamsher Prakash Research Award. He has been a consultant in major projects in Europe, US and the Middle East. His consulting work ranges from the design of pile-rafts of tall buildings, to bridge foundations, metro stations, tunnels, and quay walls, as well as special design against faulting. He is Editor-in-Chief of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and has been Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member in several Journals, including the JEE and Géotechnique. He is a Director of IAEE, and Chair of ISSMGE TC104 on Physical Modelling. | |
| Professor Chiara Bedon |
| University of Trieste, Department of Engineering and Architecture, Italy | |
“Seismic performance and fragility assessment of glass curtain walls: methods and influencing parameters” | |
Associate Professor at University of Trieste, Department of Engineering and Architecture, Italy, where she is the principal instructor for 'Structural Analysis' and 'Steel Structures' lectures. With a PhD degree in 2012, since 2009 she is involved in international research projects and European networks (JRC-ERNCIP, NATO-SPS, COST, etc.). Editorial board member for ISI international journals. Listed "2% Top Scientist" since 2019 (Stanford), "Top Italian Scientist" (engineering) and "Top Italian Women Scientist" (engineering > civil). She collected several research grants and awards, and presently coordinates the international projects HOPgLAz, 3FiRES and CoReng. | |
| Dr. Tiago Miguel Ferreira |
| Smart and Resilient Cities and Structures, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK | |
“Seismic Risk Assessment in Urban Areas: Innovative Approaches to Support Large-Scale Vulnerability Evaluations in the Digital Age” | |
Dr Tiago Miguel Ferreira is a Senior Lecturer in Smart and Resilient Cities and Structures at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK, where he also serves as Programme Leader for the MSc Programme in Civil Engineering. Additionally, he is an Invited Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His research focuses on the structural vulnerability of historical buildings and urban areas to natural and anthropogenic hazards, including earthquakes, fires, floods, and landslides. More recently, his work has expanded to explore the interactions between these hazards and their impacts on physical and social vulnerability, as well as the use of digital technologies to support decision-making and community engagement. Dr Ferreira has been listed among the top 2% of most influential scientists globally by Elsevier BV and Stanford University in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He has contributed over 200 publications, including more than 90 research articles in leading international journals, and has been actively involved in 13 R&D projects with a total funding of over £10.9 million. In addition, he serves as a reviewer for various international funding bodies, is a member of ICOMOS-UK and ISCARSAH, and is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal GeoHazards. Currently, he coordinates a working group established under Sub-Commission 8 (Eurocode 8) of the Portuguese Technical Commission for Standardization of Structural Eurocodes (CT115), which brings together universities, national and regional research institutes, and industry partners to work on the mechanical characterisation of masonry typologies in Portugal, intended for adoption in the future generation of the Portuguese Annex of Eurocode 8 – Part 3. | |
| Professor Stefano Parolai |
| Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Geosciences, University of Trieste, Italy | |
“Examples of application of seismic interferometry in engineering seismology” | |
Prof. Stefano Parolai is full Professor in Physics of the Solid Earth and Head of the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Geosciences of the University of Trieste. Till 2022 he was the Director of the Seismological Research Centre (CRS) of the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics- OGS in Italy and Secretary General of the European Seismological Commission (ESC). He has been formerly head of the Centre for Early Warning Systems of the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam and Apl. Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. From 2011 to 2017 he has been Coordinator of Central Asia Global Change Observatory of GFZ and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG). He was appointed by the Minister of Civil Protection and Sea Policy as a component and substitute contact person in the field of Seismic Risk, of the National Commission for the Forecasting and Prevention of Major Hazards. (Commissione Grandi Rischi) Prof. Stefano Parolai has been involved in several national and international projects, such as SIBYL (SeIsmic monitoring and vulneraBilitY framework for civiL protection), AZEHR (Azerbaijan Earthquake Hazard and Risk), MARsite (New Directions in Seismic Hazard Assessment through Focused Earth Observation in the Marmara Supersit), REAKT (Strategies and Tools for Real Time Earthquake RisK Reduction), MATRIX (New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe) and CASCADE (Central Asia Cross-Border Natural Disaster), the PNRR Return. He is the PI of the “Advanced SeisMic InterferOmetry MethoDs and TechnologiEs for EngineeRiNg Seismology (MODERN)” project. funded by the "talian Fund for Applied Sciences". Prof. Stefano Parolai is author of 201 publications on international scientific journals. (h-index 43). His main research interests are in the fields of engineering seismology and in particular earthquake early warning, building monitoring, site response analysis and seismic hazard and risk assessment. | |
| Professor Hrvoje Smoljanović |
| University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, Croatia | |
“Seismic analysis of masonry towers” | |
Associate Professor at University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, Croatia, where he is instructor in courses related to Theory of Structures. With a PhD degree in 2013, since 2010 he is involved in research related to Building Structure, Earthquake Engineering and Virtual Experimentation. Editorial board member for IJIM international journal. Participated in several scientific projects, winner of the University Science Award in 2017. | |
