Der SED - Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae

Personal data

Nationality: Italian

Place and date of birth: Milan, 21st November 1978

Education

2009 - Habitability evaluation of residential buildings following the L'Aquila, Central Italy, earthquake (on behalf of Civil Protection Regione Lombardia).

2008 - PhD cum laude in Structural, Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, with the thesis: Broadband empirical prediction of displacement response spectra based on worldwide digital records. Supervisor: Prof. E. Faccioli. External reviewers: Prof. M.J.N Priestley and Prof. J. Douglas.

2003 - Degree in Environmental Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, with the thesis: Strong-motion-induced seismic strains to buried pipelines in the Municipality of Catania (in Italian). Supervisor: Prof. E. Faccioli.

Main research activity

Since 2010 - Research assistant at Swiss Seismological Service (SED), ETH Zürich, involved in the following Projects:

Swiss Strong-Motion Network Renewal
Seiscomp3 development at SED
Swiss Hazard 2011
UE NERA

2008 - 2010 - Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Structural Engineering (DIS), Politecnico di Milano, involved in the following Projects:

INGV-DPC S2 (Development of a dynamical model for seismic hazard assessment at national scale, http://nuovoprogettoesse2.stru.polimi.it/). Tasks: Choice of consolidated ground motion prediction equations (GMPE) to be used in PSH analyses. Broadening the options for site classification in GMPE, e.g. including topographic amplification factors in ground motion prediction models by means of numerical simulations of near-field ground motions.
INGV-DPC S4 (Italian accelerometric archive, http://itaca.mi.ingv.it/ItacaNet/). Tasks: Signal processing aimed at preserving long-period ground motions from recorded accelerograms.
PRIN07 (Prediction of ground motion and generation of shaking maps in the near-fault region of an earthquake). Tasks: installation, maintenance and analysis of data acquired by a temporary accelerometer network currently operating in Friuli, NE Italy.

2005 - 2008 - PhD student and research co-worker at DIS, Politecnico di Milano, developing the doctoral thesis within the framework of the following Project:

INGV-DPC S5 (Seismic input in terms of expected spectral displacements, http://progettos5.stru.polimi.it/). Tasks: calibration of broadband (0.05 s to 20 s) prediction equations of arbitrarily damped displacement response spectra based on worldwide digital records.

2004 - 2005 - Research co-worker at DIS, Politecnico di Milano, participating in the following Projects:

EU Risk-UE (An advanced approach to earthquake risk scenarios with applications to different European towns, http://www.risk-ue.net/) Tasks: GIS-based earthquake risk scenarios and numerical simulations of strong ground motions for Catania, E Sicily. Damage scenarios for public school buildings.
EU Sismovalp (Seismic hazard and alpine valley response analysis, http://www-lgit.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/sismovalp/) Tasks: installation, maintenance and analysis of data acquired by temporary seismic networks (accelerometer and velocimeter stations) installed in Piemonte and Valle D’Aosta, NW Italy. Site response analysis by means of numerical simulations and comparison with experimental data.

Participation to international conferences

2011 - ESG4, University of California @ Santa Barbara, USA.
2011 - EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
2010 - 32nd General Assembly of the ESC, Montpellier, France.
2010 - 14th European Conference on earthquake Engineering, Ohrid, Macedonia.
2008 - 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China.
2007 - 4th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2006 - First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (a joint event of the 13th ECEE & 30th General Assembly of the ESC), Genève, Switzerland.