Dr Luigi Di Sarno Laurea (cum Laude), DIC, MSc, PhD, PE
Senior Lecturer - Programme Director for the Sustainable Civil and Structural Engineering MSc (Eng) - Programme Director for Architectural Engineering Civil Engineering and Industrial Design
Research
Multi-hazard analysis, design and retrofitting of critical structures and infrastructure, including soil-structrure interaction
Non-structural components and building contents
Resilient and sustanaible structural solutions to achieve Net Zero and UN Sustainable Development Goals (design-by-testing approach)
Research Grants
Informed mining: risk reduction through enhanced public and institutional risk awareness (IM AWARE)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2019 - March 2023
Research Collaborations
Norberto Rojas Mercedes
Project: Seismic Risk Analysis of Existing Bridges with Ageing Effects in Dominican Republic (SERINGES) - Fondo Nacional de Innovacion y Desarllo Cientifico y Technologico (FONDOSCYT) del Ministerio de Education Superior Ciencia y Tecnologia (MESCYT)
External: Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), Dominican Republic
Project Partner (Co-I)
Fabio Freddi
Project: SERA - H2020-INFRAIA-2016-2017/H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1 HybrId Testing of an Existing Steel FRAme with Infills under Multiple EarthquakeS (HITFRAMES) https://sera-ta.eucentre.it/sera-ta-project-20/
External: University College London, UK
Project PI
Bursi Oreste
Project: H2020 - MSCA - ITN for Extreme loading analysis of petrolchemicals plants and design of metamaterial-based shields for enhanced resilience (XP-Resilience) https://r.unitn.it/en/dicam/xp-resilience
External: University of Trento, Italy
Project Partner (Co-I)
Sextos Anastasios
Project: H2020 - MSCA - RISE - Project Partner for Experimental & Computational Hybrid Assessment of Natural Gas Pipelines Exposed to Seismic Risk (Exchange-Risk) https://www.exchange-risk.eu/
External: University of Bristol, UK
Project Partner (Co-I)
Michalis Fragiadakis
Project: SERA - H2020-INFRAIA-2016-2017/H2020-INFRAIA-2016-1 SEismic REsilience of Museum contEnts (SEREME) https://sera-ta.eucentre.it/sera-ta-project-04/
External: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Project Partner (Co-I)
Kwon Oh-Sung
Project: H2020 - MSCA - RISE - Experimental & Computational Hybrid Assessment of Natural Gas Pipelines Exposed to Seismic Risk (Exchange-Risk) https://www.exchange-risk.eu/
External: University of Toronto, Canada
Project Partner (Co-I)