FRANCESCO CAVALIERI

Researcher at European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE) since May 2018. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering in 2010, at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy). From 2010 to 2018 he has been Research Associate at the Department of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, Sapienza – University of Rome. Within the EU-funded FP7 project SYNER-G, he was one of the main developers of OOFIMS, a software tool for multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment of critical infrastructures, including lifelines. During his academic career, he spent various months as visiting scholar at Columbia University (New York, USA), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and the French Geological Survey (BRGM site in Orléans, France). His research activity has focussed on the topics of Earthquake Engineering, mainly on seismic reliability of structures, vulnerability of reinforced concrete precast buildings, multi-hazard risk and resilience assessment of interdependent infrastructural systems, soil-structure interaction. He has authored more than 70 publications; he is a reviewer for a number of international journals and an associate editor of Earthquake Spectra (Sage Journals). He is an instructor at IUSS Pavia and speaker in national and international conferences.