Tiziana Rossetto Explained

Tiziana Rossetto
Birth Place:	Adelaide
Workplaces:	University College London
Alma Mater:	Imperial College London
Thesis Title:	Vulnerability curves for the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete building populations
Thesis Url:	http://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/8125
Thesis Year:	2004

Tiziana Rossetto is a British–Italian structural engineer 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 was born in Adelaide.^[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 and structural dynamics 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.^[4] After graduating Rossetto worked as a structural engineer in London.

Research and career

In 2004 Rossetto joined University College London. At University College London Rossetto founded the EPICentre research group,^[5] 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.^[6] including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Kashmir earthquake, Sichuan earthquake, L'Aquila earthquake and 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. Rossetto is a specialist in the assessment of building vulnarability to earthquake and tsunami hazards. In 2014, Rossetto was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant to investigate the vulnerability of structures to such natural hazards.^[7], where she collaborated with HR Wallingford to develop a new type of pneaumatic tsunami simulator. She was named the Stanford University Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Shah Lecturer in 2017.^[8]

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. 10.1016/s0141-0296(03)00060-9. 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. 10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.11.002. 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. 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.02.039. 0141-0296.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Academy celebrates first new Fellows elected under Fit for the Future diversity initiative . Royal Academy of Engineering . 25 September 2021.
2. Web site: Exploring new ways of defending coastal cities. 2021-09-24. ScienceBusiness. en.
3. Web site: UCL. 2019-04-09. tiziana-rossetto. 2021-09-24. EPICentre. en.
4. Rossetto. Tiziana. January 2004. Vulnerability curves for the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete building populations. 10044/1/8125 .
5. Web site: Iris Research Activity. 2021-09-24. iris.ucl.ac.uk.
6. Web site: ERC = science^2 Researchers Tiziana Rosetto. 2021-09-24. ScienceSquared. en.
7. Web site: 2014-01-01. Urban Waves: evaluating structure vulnerability to tsunami and earthquakes. 2021-09-24. CORDIS.
8. Web site: Shah Family Fund Lecture Series Blume Center. 2021-09-24. blume.stanford.edu.