Andrea Spillatura, PhD

Earthquake Engineer - Catastrophe Risk Modeling

Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis



Andrea Spillatura is a Structural Engineer who joined RED at the very start of 2018. He recently (2017) finished the PhD program in Understanding and Managing Extremes at Istituto Universitario Studi Superiori di Pavia (IUSS). He developed his research on seismic Risk with particular focus on Performance Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE), ground motions selection procedures, fragility and vulnerability assessment of structures. He was part of a project about Risk Assessment of code complaints buildings funded by Italian Civil Protection. Andrea obtained also an MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology at IUSS in 2014. He did his undergraduate studies at Università degli Studi of Perugia obtaining a BSc (2008) in Civil Engineering and another MSc (2011) in structural engineering.

He is interested in various aspects of Earthquake risk assessment, from hazard to fragility, vulnerability and loss evaluation. He is currently working on the previous topics, applied in several projects that RED is holding.

Selected publications:

  • Spillatura A., Fiorini E., Bazzurro P., Pennucci D., Harmonization of vulnerability curves for masonry buildings, Proc. of Second European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology 2014 (2ECEES 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, August 25-29
  • Kohrangi, M., Bazzurro, P., Vamvatsikos, D. and Spillatura, A., 2017. Conditional spectrum‐based ground motion record selection using average spectral acceleration. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics.
  • Iervolino, I., Spillatura, A. and Bazzurro, P., 2017, June. RINTC Project-Assessing the (implicit) seismic risk of code-conforming structures in Italy. In COMPDYN 2017-6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (pp. 15-17). Rhodes Island, Greece.
  • Phone: (+39) 0382-22518
  • Email: andrea (dot) spillatura (at) redrisk (dot) com