14th International Workshop on Seismic Microzoning and Risk Reduction

BARD, Pierre-Yves

(Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Univ. Grenoble, France). His primary activity has been research. His interests, initially focused on site effects, have gradually broadened to include strong motion seismology, seismic hazard estimation (with emphasis on probabilistic approaches), wave propagation in heterogeneous media, subsurface and structural monitoring using ambient vibrations, soil-structure and site-city interactions, seismic zonation and microzonation, and their translation into regulatory texts or technical guides and recommendations for engineering applications. They have involved theoretical, numerical and instrumental methodological developments, and examples of applications on real sites, with a particular focus on “frugal” methods that can be used in developing countries or countries with moderate seismicity.

SEMBLAT, Jean-François

(ENSTA-Paris). Fields of expertise: seismology, seismic wave propagation, computational mechanics (FEM/BEM), soil dynamics, dynamic soil-structure interaction, structural dynamics. Teaching: Structural mechanics, Structural dynamics, Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Master of Mechanics (coordinator), MOOC Fundamentals of Waves and Vibrations, MOOC From Seismology to Earthquake Engineering (new 2022!). Committees: International Society for Soil Mechanics (TC203), French Association for Earthquake Engineering (AFPS), Comité Français de Mécanique des Sols (CFMS). Editorial boards: International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE), Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Polytechnique Insights.

PAOLUCCI, Roberto

(Politecnico of Milan). He has an experience of about 30 years of participation in different national and international research projects, mainly dealing with seismic hazard studies, geotechnical earthquake engineering, dynamic soil-structure interaction, high-performance computing in elastodynamics. Among the most recent activities, he has recently coordinated different research projects and consultant activities for major international companies. He received in 2000 the Shamsher Prakash Award, from the University of Missouri-Rolla, for young (under 40) researchers in earthquake geotechnical engineering, and, in 2006, the Outstanding Paper Award by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, California, for the paper “Displacement Specta for Long Periods”, co-authored by E. Faccioli and J. Rey, published in Earthquake Spectra, 2004.

Koichi Hayashi

(Kyoto University). Professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University in Uji, Kyoto, Japan. Over the past 33 years, he has worked as a research geophysicist focusing on providing better tools and algorithms for near-surface geophysical methods. He earned a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from Chiba University in Japan, a M.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Earth Resources Engineering from Kyoto University in Japan. His main research areas are seismic refraction, active and passive surface waves, finite-difference seismic modeling, distributed acoustic sensing, machine learning and traveltime inversion. He is the author of the SeisImager data analysis suite of programs and has incorporated many of his theoretical developments into the software, making SeisImager one of the premier active and passive surface waves, refraction, and downhole data processing packages available today.

MATSUSHIMA, Shinichi

(Kyoto University). Since April 2016, Shinichi Matsushima became a professor of Structrual Dynamics Section at Kyoto University. Our lab has been change to Seismic Ground Response Section and now is a part of the Research Center for Earthquake Hazards from August 2022.Conducting activities for research and education in Disaster Prevention Research Institute and Cooperation Institute of Architecture – Space Safety Engineering – Earthquake and Tsunami Resistant Design for Structures.

Baise, Laurie

(Tufts University). Professor and the chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts School of Engineering. She is a member of the Geosystems Faculty, and lead investigator in the Geohazards Research Lab. She is also the director of the BSCE degree program. Laurie Baise’s work in the Geohazards Research Lab addresses hazards such as earthquakes and extreme wind, and links predictive models with observational data. She is an expert in earthquake site response and regional seismic hazard mapping. Baise’s recent research focuses on regional mapping for rapid response and loss estimation. Baise and her students are interested in both developing predictive models to predict damage extent and using remotely sensed imagery and automated classification techniques to develop damage extent maps immediately following natural hazard events.

Molina, Sergio

(University of Alicante). He was chief investigator in a National Plan project on new methodologies related to better characterization of ground movement (seismic hazard) and its inclusion in damage and loss scenarios, and he leads the UA group participating in the European project TURNKEY, whose main goal is the forecasting, early warning, and rapid damage assessment due to earthquakes, and its integration with a useful application for civil protection and emergency managers. The results of the conducted research have been reflected in numerous scientific publications (over 40 in high-impact JCR journals), as well as numerous presentations at national and international conferences.

Ordaz, Mario

(UNAM). Civil engineer (1983), Master in Engineering (1986), and Doctor in Engineering (1992) from UNAM. Since 1987, researcher at the Institute of Engineering of UNAM. He has participated in the development of almost all seismic design regulations that have been created in Mexico since 1985, as well as in the preparation of regulations for other countries. He has participated in the development of seismic risk studies, for structural design purposes, in more than 30 important projects. National Prize ‘Nabor Carrillo’ for research in Civil Engineering, ‘Luis Esteva’ Medal awarded by the Mexican Society of Seismic Engineering. He is a Tenured Researcher C at the Institute of Engineering of UNAM, a member of the National System of Researchers Level III.

Aysegul, Askan

(Middle East Technical University). Professor of civil engineer, earthquake studies, and applied mathematics. She is the current general secretary of Earthquake Engineering Associaton of Turkey and a member of the National disaster and emergency consultancy board of Turkey. She has led and partipated in several EU projects, Turkish-Japanese bilateral projects and national projects focusing on seismic hazard, risk and site characterization problems. Her international contributions include NSF-QUAKE, NSF SPRU, EU-NERA, EU-Series, EMME and JTRE projects. She holds several administrative positions in education and research.

Miranda, Eduardo

(Middle East Technical University). Since the year 2000, he has been a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, where he actively participates in the John Blume Research Center for Earthquake Engineering. Has been involved in regulatory committees in Mexico, the United States, and Central America. He has served as a consultant for both national and international companies and institutions. Some of these include the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions, the National Commission of Insurance and Surety, the United States Geological Survey, the California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the World Bank. He is the author of over 250 publications related to earthquake engineering. He has received several awards, among which the Moisseff Award for research awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), ‘Top 25 Newsmaker’ by Engineering News Record (ENR), and the award from the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat stand out.

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