Scientific activity

  • Task Group Coordinator or Member in the following research programmes: ReLUIS-DPC 2005–2008 (Line 1: Evaluation and reduction of the vulnerability of masonry buildings), funded by Italian Civil Protection Department; ReLUIS-DPC 2010–2013 (Line AT1-1.1: Evaluation of the vulnerability of masonry buildings, historic centres and cultural heritage), funded by Italian Civil Protection Department; PON PROVACI (Technologies for earthquake protection and valorisation of cultural heritage sites), funded by Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research; ReLUIS-DPC 2014-2017 (Line 1 - Masonry Structures and Line 2 - Reinforced Concrete Structures), funded by Italian Civil Protection Department. PON STRIT (Tools and Technologies for Risk Management of Transportation Infrastructures) and PON METRICS (Methodologies and Technologies for Management and Requalification of Historical Centres and Heritage Buildings), both funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research; CRP-48693 (Design and retrofit of stone and adobe masonry buildings in low-seismicity regions including Sardinia, Italy) funded by Sardinia Region.
  • Author of more than 100 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings, several book chapters, and numerous scientific reports.
  • Author of 4 computer tools for seismic analysis of masonry buildings and experimental data selection of masonry properties.
  • Winner of one teaching award from University of Naples Federico II (2010) and 4 international awards and acknowledgements from Macedonian Association for Earthquake Engineering (2010), ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (2011), Advances in Engineering (2012), and Engineering Failure Analysis (Elsevier journal, 2017).
  • Member of the Secretariat Committee for the following conferences: 1st Italian Conference on Forensic Engineering and 4th Italian Conference on Collapse, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures (IF CRASC '09), Naples, Italy, 2009; 2nd Italian Conference on Forensic Engineering and 5th Italian Conference on Collapse, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures (IF CRASC '12), Pisa, Italy, 2012.
  • Organising Committee Member of national and international conferences: 3rd Italian Conference on Forensic Engineering and 6th Italian Conference on Collapse, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures (IF CRASC '15), Rome, Italy, 2015;  4th Italian Conference on Forensic Engineering and 7th Italian Conference on Collapse, Reliability and Retrofit of Structures (IF CRASC '17), Milan, Italy, 2017..
  • Scientific Committee Member of national and international conferences: 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (Vancouver, Canada, 12–15 July 2015); 7th International Conference on Safety and Durability of Structures (Vila Real, Portugal, 10–12 May 2016); 7th International Conference on Safety & Environment in Process & Power Industry (Ischia, Italy, 25–28 September 2016); 12th International Conference on Structural Repair and Rehabilitation (Porto, Portugal, 26–29 October 2016); 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (Santiago, Chile, 9–13 January 2017); 9th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (Valencia, Spain, 24–29 July 2017); 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Models – Design and Rehabilitation of Structures (Coimbra, Portugal, 16–17 November 2017).
  • Organizer of Mini-Symposia and Workshops: “Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Rainfall-induced Phenomena” at the 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (Vancouver, Canada, 12–15 July 2015); "Computational Strategies for Structural Robustness Assessment" at the 7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (Crete, Greece, 5–10 June 2016); "Metrology in a complex world: From urban and energy systems to social networks" at University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy, 26 July 2016).