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Below you can find relevant publications from the UNESCO Chair in DRR-DR team at UCL.
| D’Ayala, Fernández, R., Parammal Vatteri, A., Li, Z., Bendito, A., Yasukawa, S. (2025). Evaluating education disruption by integrated school and road infrastructure system analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105588 |  |
| Li, Z., Fernández, R., & D’Ayala, D. (2025). Reinforcement Learning Based Recovery of Education after Natural Hazards. In International Conference for Artificial Intelligence: Applications, Innovation and Ethics (AI)2E. Link |  |
| Voelker, B., Milillo, P., Tavakkoliestahbanati, A., Macchiarulo, V., Giardina, G., Recla, M., Schmitt, M., Cescon, M., Bennette, W., Aktas, Y.D., So, E. (2024) The EEFIT remote sensing reconnaissance mission for the February 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 17, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3476029. | |
| Macchiarulo V., Giardina, G., Milillo, P., Aktas, Y.D., Whitworth, M.R.Z. (2024) Integrating post-event Very High Resolution SAR imagery and Machine Learning for building-level earthquake damage assessment, Bulletin of Earthquake Spectra, doi: 10.1007/s10518-024-01877-1 | |
| D’Ayala, D., Fernández, R., Parammal Vatteri, A., Yasukawa, S., Bendito, A. (2023). Minimize education disruption following natural hazards, Dominican Republic 2023/SC/DRR/03 https://doi.org/10.54677/DXIU8991 |  |
| Fernández, R., Calvo, A., Correal, J. F., D'Ayala, D., & Medaglia, A. L. (2024). Large-scale school building infrastructure improvement: The case of the city of Cali, Colombia. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 93, 101881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101881 |  |
| Bozyigit, B., Ozdemir, A., Donmez, K., Dalgic, D., Durgut, E., Yesilyurt, C., Dizgin, Y., Yildeniz, C., Arslan, M., Bedirhanoglu, I., Aktas, Y.D., Acikgoz, S. (2023) Damage to monumental masonry buildings in Hatay and Osmaniye following the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes: the role of wall geometry, construction quality and material properties, Earthquake Spectra 40:3, doi: 10.1177/87552930241247031 | |
Guardiola-Víllora, A., Molina, S. & D’Ayala, D. Performance based probabilistic seismic risk assessment for urban heritage. An example in Pla del Remei Area (Valencia). Bull Earthquake Eng (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-023-01721-y |  |
| Fernández, R., Correal, J.F., D’Ayala, D. and Medaglia, A.L., 2023. A decision-making framework for school infrastructure improvement programs. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, pp.1-20. |  |
| Fernández, R., Correal, J.F., D'Ayala, D. and Medaglia, A.L., 2023. Towards disaster risk mitigation on large-scale school intervention programs. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 90, p.103655. |  |
Adhikari, R.K., D'Ayala, D., Fernandez, R., Yamin, L., Nassirpour, A., Vatteri, A.P., Ferreira, C. and Cortes, F., 2023. GLOSI Taxonomy: A tool for ‘seismic risk assessment’oriented classification of school buildings. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, p.103594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103594 Adhikari, Rohit Kumar, Ahsana Parammal Vatteri, and Dina D’Ayala. 2023. "Seismic Performance Assessment of Low-Rise Unreinforced and Confined Brick Masonry School Buildings Using the Applied Element Method" Buildings 13, no. 1: 159. doi: 10.3390/buildings13010159 | 
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Cels, J., Rossetto, T., Little, A.W. and Dias, P., 2023. Tsunami preparedness within Sri Lanka's education system. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 84, p.103473. |  |
Fernández, R., Yamin, L., D’Ayala, D. et al. (2022) A simplified component-based methodology for the seismic vulnerability assessment of school buildings using nonlinear static procedures: application to RC school buildings. Bull Earthquake Eng 20, 6555–6585 . doi.org/10.1007/s10518-022-01445-5 |  |
| Aktas, Y.D., So, E. (2022) Editorial: Disaster Reconnaissance Missions: Is a hybrid approach the way forward?, Frontiers in Built Environment – Earthquake Engineering, doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.954571 | |
| Aktas, Y.D., Ioannou, I., Malcioglu, F S, Kontoe, M, Parammal Vatteri, A., Baiguera, M, Black, J., Kosker, A., Dermanis, P., Esabalioglou, M, Cabuk, E. Donmez, K., Ercolino, M., Asinari, M., Verrucci, E., Putrino, V., Durmaz, B., Kazantzidou-Firtinidou, D., Cotton, D., O’Kane, A., Ozden, A T, Contreras, D., Cels, J., Free, M., Burton, P., Wilkinson, S., Rostami, R., D’Ayala, D (2022) Hybrid Reconnaissance Mission to 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea Earthquake and Tsunami: Description of Data Collection Methods and Damage, Frontiers in Built Environment – Earthquake Engineering, doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.840192 | |
| Aktas, Y.D., Ioannou, I, Malcioglu, F S, Parammal Vatteri, A., Kontoe, M., Donmez, K., Black, J., Kazantzidou-Firtinidou, D., Dermanis, P, Diri, F (2022) Traditional structures in Turkey and Greece in 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea Earthquake: Field observations and empirical fragility assessment, Frontiers in Built Environment – Earthquake Engineering, doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.840159 | |
| Whitworth, M R Z, Giardina G, Penney C, Di Sarno L, Adams K, Kijewski-Correa T, Black, J., Foroughnia M, Macchiarulo V, Milillio, P. Ojaghi M, Orfeo A, Pugliese F, Dönmez K, Aktas Y.D., Macabuag J (2022) Lessons for remote post-earthquake reconnaissance from the 14th August 2021 Haiti Earthquake, Frontiers in Built Environment – Earthquake Engineering, doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2022.873212 | |
Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2022), Analytical vulnerability-based risk assessment of school systems exposed to multi-hazards, Proceedings of International Conference on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure (ICONHIC), Athens, Greece. | |
Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2022), Bayesian Networks for Assessment of Disruption to School Systems under Combined Hazards, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 74, 102924. |  |
Vatteri, A.P. and D’Ayala, D., (2021). Classification and seismic fragility assessment of confined masonry school buildings. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 19(5), pp.2213-2263. doi.org/10.1007/s10518-021-01061-9 |  |
| Aktas, Y.D. (2021) Editorial: Cities and Urban Heritage in the Face of a Changing Climate, Atmosphere 12(8), 1007, doi: 10.3390/atmos12081007 | |
Del Zoppo, M., Wijesundara, K., Rossetto, T., Dias, P., Baiguera, M., Di Ludovico, M., Thamboo, J. and Prota, A., (2021). Influence of exterior infill walls on the performance of RC frames under tsunami loads: Case study of school buildings in Sri Lanka. Engineering Structures, 234, p.111920. |  |
| Parammal Vatteri, D’Ayala and Gehl, (2021), Bayesian Networks for Seismic Performance Assessment of Confined Masonry School Systems, Proceedings of 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), Sendai, Japan. | |
| Fernández, R.I., Adhikari, R.K., Yamin, L.E., D’Ayala, D.F. and Fuentes, G.A. (2020) SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND RISK REDUCTION STRATEGY OF LOW-RISE SCHOOL BUILDINGS, 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. | |
D'Ayala D, Galasso C, Nassirpour A, Adhikari RK, Yamin L, Fernandez R, Lo D, Garciano L and Oreta A (2019) Resilient communities through safer schools, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. |  |
UCL and UniAndes (2019). Final Report, GLOSI: Global Library of School Infrastructure, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA. | |
| Adhikari, R.K., D’Ayala, D. (2019). APPLIED ELEMENT MODELLING AND PUSHOVER ANALYSIS OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS WITH FLEXIBLE ROOF DIAPHRAGM, 7th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Crete, Greece. | |
| Adhikari R.K., D’Ayala D. et al (2018). “Structural Classification System for Load Bearing Masonry School Buildings”. In: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece. | |
| Hunt, J., Aktaş, Y.D., Mahalov, A., Moustaoui, M., Salamanca, F., Georgescu, M. (2018) Climate change and growing megacities: Hazards and vulnerability, ICE Engineering Sustainability 171(6), pp. 314-326, doi: 10.1680/jensu.16.00068 | |
