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EPICentre: An Interdisciplinary Centre for Natural Hazards Resilience

EPICentre investigates risks from natural hazards to society, the built environment and the natural environment. Our research projects adopt a range of skills for tackling complex real-world problems.

About

For more information on EPICentre, including people, research and resources, visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epicentre.

Please note, links on this page may direct to external sites.

A dynamic, multidisciplinary research centre, EPICentre collaborates with the UCL Hazard Centre and UCL IRDR, whilst also having strong industrial links. A member of the Willis Research Network (WRN), EPICentre has research projects across the globe with several international partners, and the World Bank.

The Co-Directors of EPICentre are Prof Tiziana Rossetto and Prof Dina D'Ayala.

EPICentre members contribute to the following CEGE degree programmes:

Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management MSc

There are additionally other Master's programmes at UCL that fall within the research interests of EPICentre:

Research themes

Risk Representation and Behaviours in Individuals
Post Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction
Vulnerability of Cities and Infrastructure to Natural Hazards
Societal and Engineering Resilience
Heritage Conservation Engineering

Contact

EPICentre

Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

epicentre-enquiries@ucl.ac.uk

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