Tiziana Rossetto
Tiziana Rossetto is a British–Italian earth scientist who is Professor of Earthquake Engineering at University College London. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021. Early life and education. Rossetto is from Rome. 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. She stayed at Imperial as a graduate student, and earned an MSc in earthquake engineering in 1999. Rossetto remained  in earthquake engineering as a doctoral researcher, where she worked on a seismic assessment of reinforced concrete building populations. After graduating Rossetto worked as a structural engineer in London. Research and career. In 2004 Rossetto joined University College London. After the L'Aquila earthquake, Sichuan earthquake and Kashmir earthquake, Rossetto was involved with several field missions to evaluate the impact on infrastructure. At University College London Rossetto founded the EPICentre research group, a collection of researchers evaluating the risk of tsunamis and earthquakes. Rossetto is a specialist in deriving vulnerability curves, which can be used to evaluate the damage to structures  that might take place during an earthquake. To establish these curves, Rossetto developed Europe's largest tsunami simulator. She was named the Stanford University Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Shah Lecturer in 2017. In 2014, Rossetto was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant to investigate the vulnerability of structures to such natural hazards. References.