Tiziana Rossetto

Tiziana Rossetto FREng is a British–Italian earth scientist who is Professor of Earthquake Engineering at University College London. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.^[1]

Early life and education[]

Rossetto is from Rome.^[2] She attended St. George's British International School as a high school student, and moved to St Benedict's School in London as a sixth former. Rossetto was an undergraduate student at Imperial College London, where she studied civil engineering.^[3] She stayed at Imperial as a graduate student, and earned an MSc in earthquake engineering in 1999. Rossetto remained in earthquake engineering as a doctoral researcher, where she worked on a seismic assessment of reinforced concrete building populations.^[4] After graduating Rossetto worked as a structural engineer in London.^{[citation needed]}

Research and career[]

In 2004 Rossetto joined University College London. After the L'Aquila earthquake, Sichuan earthquake and Kashmir earthquake, Rossetto was involved with several field missions to evaluate the impact on infrastructure.^[5] At University College London Rossetto founded the EPICentre research group,^[6] a collection of researchers evaluating the risk of tsunamis and earthquakes. Rossetto is a specialist in deriving vulnerability curves, which can be used to evaluate the damage to structures that might take place during an earthquake.^[2] To establish these curves, Rossetto developed Europe's largest tsunami simulator.^{[citation needed]} She was named the Stanford University Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Shah Lecturer in 2017.^[7]

In 2014, Rossetto was awarded an European Research Council Starting Grant to investigate the vulnerability of structures to such natural hazards.^[8][9]

Selected publications[]

• Rossetto, T.; Elnashai, A. (2003). "Derivation of vulnerability functions for European-type RC structures based on observational data". Engineering Structures. 25 (10): 1241–1263. doi:10.1016/s0141-0296(03)00060-9. ISSN 0141-0296.
• Rossetto, Tiziana; Elnashai, Amr (2005). "A new analytical procedure for the derivation of displacement-based vulnerability curves for populations of RC structures". Engineering Structures. 27 (3): 397–409. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.11.002. ISSN 0141-0296.
• Zhao, Bin; Taucer, Fabio; Rossetto, Tiziana (2009). "Field investigation on the performance of building structures during the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China". Engineering Structures. 31 (8): 1707–1723. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.02.039. ISSN 0141-0296.

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