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Professor Tiziana Rossetto joined UCL in 2004. She founded and directs the
EPICentre research group (EPICentre, www.epicentreonline.com), which is a
multidisciplinary research group looking at topics of earthquake and
tsunami risk. She also directs the MSc Earthquake Engineering with
Disaster Management which she founded in 2006.
From 2009-2011 Prof Rosetto helped
establish and co-directed the EngD Centre in Urban Sustainability and
Resilience. The main focus of her personal research, has been the
development of empirical and analytical methodologies for the derivation
of vulnerability curves, which can be used to predict the probable
damage in structures during an earthquake.
Tiziana has undertaken a number of field missions to assess damage to buildings and infrastructure in earthquake zones including the L'Aquila earthquake 2009, Wenchuan, China earthquake of 2008, the Kashmir Earthquake of 2005, the Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami 2004, and the Bhuj Earthquake, India 2001.
