Tiziana Rossetto FREng 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2] 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. doi:10.1016/s0141-0296(03)00060-9. ISSN 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. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2004.11.002. ISSN 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. doi:10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.02.039. ISSN 0141-0296.