FaMIVE - Recent developments and applications

Dina D’Ayala is the UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering @ UCL. She is Professor of Structural Engineering within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. She is Co-Director of the UCL EPICentre and Co-Director of the StrEnTHE, the Structural and Environmental Laboratory @UCL HERE EAST. She is a director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineers and Fellow of the ICE. Her specialism is Structural Resilience Engineering with particular emphasis on the assessment, strengthening, preservation and resilience of existing buildings, structures, transport infrastructure and architectural heritage. She has developed FaMIVE for the past 20 years. 

Arianna Guardiola Víllora is a Dr. Architect, Professor at the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Theory of Structures at the School of Architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain).
Her research is focused on improving the performance of the built structures in order to preserve them to posterity. Considering that the most sustainable structure is that which is already built, she is a firm defender of the rehabilitation and enhancement of the built heritage structures guaranteeing the authenticity and sustainability as opposed to demolition and new construction. Nowadays, her main lines of research are the analysis of the seismic vulnerability of residential buildings, and the energy efficiency of structures and built heritage.

Dr. Fulvio Parisi is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering and Coordinator of MSc Programme in Forensic Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His research activity encompasses performance, risk and robustness assessment of both masonry and concrete structures, as well as their structural rehabilitation with classical and innovative materials. He carried out both theoretical and experimental studies in about 30 research projects, coordinating major activities on buildings, bridges, and cultural heritage constructions. He authored over 200 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings, 1 book, 12 book chapters, 35 scientific reports, 2 software packages for structural analysis of masonry buildings, and 3 databases for experimental data selection on masonry properties. He edited 2 books and 6 special issues of peer-reviewed international journals. He is Editor of Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), Associate Editor of the Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (ASCE) and Innovative Infrastructure Solutions (Springer), and Editorial Board Member of several international journals. His research findings were implemented in several national and international guidelines for structural design, assessment, retrofitting, and robustness. Prof. Parisi is convenor or member of working groups and technical committees in several associations and standard bodies, including the Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), Fédération Internationale du Béton (fib), and National Research Council of Italy (CNR). In 2020, he was included in the list of World’s Top 2% Scientists according to the scientific impact of his research activity. Since 2021, he is included in the list of World’s Top Scientists for both career-long and single-year impacts.

Miss Valentina Buonocunto received her MSc degree in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she is PhD student in Structural & Geotechnical Engineering and Seismic Risk under supervision of Prof. Fulvio Parisi and Prof. Giorgio Serino. In 2023, she was a visiting PhD student at University College London under supervision of Prof. Dina D’Ayala. Her research activity mainly focuses on nonlinear seismic analysis and vulnerability assessment of unreinforced masonry buildings using different computational strategies (finite element method, equivalent frame method, and rigid-body kinematic analysis) and probabilistic simulation. She was involved in DPC-ReLUIS 2022-2024 national project, assessing the nonlinear behaviour of irregular masonry walls with openings, displacement capacity of single walls, as well as seismic fragility and vulnerability of masonry buildings. In the framework of FAIL-SAFE national project (PI: Prof. Fulvio Parisi), her research activity is mainly focused on the investigation of residual load-bearing capacity and vulnerability of existing masonry buildings subjected to local damage.

Juan Carlos de la Llera was the dean of Engineering at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) from 2010-2022. He is a PUC Civil Engineer (’85) and obtained his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley (’94). His research covers the fields of seismic protection of structures, seismic risk analysis of complex systems, and nonlinear structural dynamics. Currently, he is one of the PIs of CIGIDEN, and president of the Public Technological Resilience Institute, Itrend. He has numerous publications and patents in the field, commanded the creation of a national strategy for Disaster Resilience, and was part of the National Innovation Council for 12 years. He participated in the creation of a new Ministry of Science and Technology. Besides his academic awards, he obtained the 2011 Endeavor Entrepreneur Award for the performance of his seismic protection technology during the 2010, Chile earthquake, the National Innovation Trajectory Award in 2017, and was elected as an international member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA.  Professionally, he has led the development and use of seismic protection technologies in Chile and South America in more than 100 large structures.

PhD in Architecture –Structures and Conservation of Architecture and Cultural Heritage from the University of Firenze, Italy– and PhD in Engineering Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is currently associate professor and research coordinator at the Andrés Bello University - Faculty of Architecture, and researcher at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN). Nuria Chiara Palazzi's research domains include the assessment of seismic vulnerability and fragility of historic centres and existing structures.

Structural engineer and MSc of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He works full time as a researcher at the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN) in Chile. His research focuses on seismic risk and resilience of critical lifelines, such as drinking water, urban transportation, electric power distribution, and emergency healthcare networks. Additionally, he collaborates in several other projects, including seismic fragility assessment of historic structures, and studies of seismic hazard in Chile.