Tiziana Rossetto is a British–Italian structural engineer who is Professor of Earthquake Engineering at

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. She was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2021.

Early life and education

Rossetto was born in

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. She attended

St. George's British International School St George's British International School is an independent, not-for-profit international school located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1958 to serve Rome's British, international and expatriate communities, and today educates more than 900 ...

as a high school student, and moved to St Benedict's School in

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as a sixth former. Rossetto was an undergraduate student at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, where she studied civil engineering. She stayed at Imperial as a graduate student, and earned an MSc in

earthquake engineering Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind. Its overall goal is to make such structures more resistant to earthquakes. An earth ...

and

structural dynamics Structural dynamics is a type of structural analysis which covers the behavior of a structure subjected to dynamic (actions having high acceleration) loading. Dynamic loads include people, wind, waves, traffic, earthquakes, and blasts. Any structur ...

in 1999. Rossetto remained in earthquake engineering as a doctoral researcher, where she worked on the topic of seismic assessment of reinforced concrete building populations. After graduating Rossetto worked as a structural engineer in London.

Research and career

In 2004 Rossetto joined

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. At

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

Rossetto founded the EPICentre research group, a collection of researchers evaluating the risk of tsunamis and earthquakes. Rossetto has participated in several field missions to evaluate the impact of earthquakes and tsunami on infrastructure. including the

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...

Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu an ...

Sichuan earthquake This is a list of earthquakes that occurred in Sichuan province of China. Earthquakes with magnitude of 7.0 or greater Earthquakes registering magnitudes between 6.0 and 6.9 See also * List of earthquakes in Yunnan References {{Earth ...

, L'Aquila earthquake and

2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami On 28 September 2018, a shallow, large earthquake struck in the neck of the Minahasa Peninsula, Indonesia, with its epicentre located in the mountainous Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi. The magnitude 7.5 quake was located away from the prov ...

. Rossetto is a specialist in the assessment of building vulnarability to earthquake and tsunami hazards. In 2014, Rossetto was awarded a

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Starting Grant to investigate the vulnerability of structures to such natural hazards., where she collaborated with HR Wallingford to develop a new type of pneaumatic tsunami simulator. She was named the

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Shah Lecturer in 2017.

Selected publications

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References

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