I graduated with honors in Civil Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1997, received a MSc in Structural Engineering from University of Califronia, Berkeley in 1999, and a doctoral degree from Sapienza in 2001, where I also spent as a post-doc research fellow the years from 2001 to 2006.

Since 2001 I have taught courses in several universities: Sapienza and Roma Tre in Roma, Bologna, l'Aquila, the European School for Advanced Studies in Earthquake Engineering (ROSE School) in Pavia.

My research is in the fields of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Reliability. I have authored/co-authored more than 50 publications, including a textbook, and I serve/served as a reviewer for several international journals: Earthquake Engng & Struct. Dyn., ASCE Jnl Struct. Engng, Jnl Earthquake Engng, Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center reports, Intnl Jnl Reliability & Safety, Bull. Earthquake Engng, Engineering Structures and Soil Dyn. & Earthquake Engng. I took part in several research projects: funded by the European Union (SAFERR (FP5), SPEAR (FP5), LESSLOSS (FP6) and SYNER-G(FP7)), by the Italian Ministry for Higher Education and Research (PRIN2002, PRIN2004, PRIN2007), by the Italian National Research Council (VIA, MIUR-CNR) and by the Italian Department of Civil Protection (Progetto Esecutivo DPC-Reluis 2005-2008, Progetto Esecutivo DPC-Eucentre 2009-2012).

I am a member of Commission 7 "Seismic design", and of Task Groups 7.5 “High-performance materials and structural systems” and 7.7 "Performance-based Seismic Design", of the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib). I am also a member of Sub-Committee 3 "Structural Reliability and Optimization" of the International Association of Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR).

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