Paolo Bazzurro, PhD
Director - Earthquake Risk
Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis
Paolo Bazzurro is full professor at the IUSS Pavia and earned his M.S., Engineer Degree, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Stanford University where he has been part-time Consulting Assistant Professor for 4 years. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in consulting engineering firms in Europe and United States. He is a structural engineer and holds a professional engineer certification in Italy. His expertise is in the application of probability and statistics to civil engineering problems. Most of his projects dealt with earthquake and wind engineering risk assessments to a variety of structures both on-shore and offshore. He leads the San Francisco office of AIR Worldwide that focuses on damage and loss estimation for single structures, portfolio of assets, and lifelines. He has authored more than 80 publications in international journals and refereed conferences one of which received the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) award for best 1998 technical paper. He has led EERI team in a post-disaster reconnaissance teams sent to Molise and Abruzzo, Italy, to study the impact of the earthquakes that occurred in 2002 and 2009. Bazzurro is one of the technical Editors of Earthquake Spectra and he is a member of the Scientific Board of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). He is now a consultant of RED spa.
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