Tiziana Rossetto facts for kids

Tiziana Rossetto is a British-Italian structural engineer. She is a professor at University College London. There, she teaches about earthquake engineering. This field helps make buildings safe during earthquakes. In 2021, she became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. This is a special honor for engineers.

Early Life and Learning

Tiziana Rossetto was born in Adelaide, Australia. She went to high school at St. George's British International School. Later, she moved to London and attended St Benedict's School.

She studied civil engineering at Imperial College London. After that, she continued her studies there. In 1999, she earned a master's degree. Her focus was on earthquake engineering. This area looks at how buildings react to earthquakes.

She then worked on her doctorate degree. Her research was about how to check buildings. She wanted to see how strong concrete buildings were against earthquakes. After finishing her studies, she worked as a structural engineer in London.

Research and Career

In 2004, Professor Rossetto joined University College London. She started a research group there called EPICentre. This group studies the risks from tsunamis and earthquakes. They learn how these natural events affect buildings.

Professor Rossetto has traveled to many places. She visited areas after earthquakes and tsunamis. She saw the damage and learned how to make things safer. Some of these trips included the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. She also visited after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. Her work also took her to the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami.

She is an expert in checking how vulnerable buildings are. This means she figures out how likely buildings are to be damaged. She focuses on damage from earthquakes and tsunamis.

In 2014, she received a special grant. This money helped her study how structures are affected by natural hazards. She worked with HR Wallingford on a new tsunami simulator. This machine can create waves to test how buildings react. In 2017, she was honored as the Shah Lecturer. This was at the Stanford University Blume Earthquake Engineering Center.