Research portfolio
From European frontier research to international collaborations and field reconnaissance, this portfolio connects structural engineering, data, human behaviour and emerging technologies to reduce disaster risk.
Selected initiatives
Projects are grouped by status and arranged in reverse chronological order, with ongoing initiatives displayed first.
Active initiatives, highlighted in green and presented first.
Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies. Develops an integrated visualisation framework for climate resilience, recovery and whole-life carbon assessment of interdependent transport and energy systems.
Horizon Europe · MSCAInnovative AI methodologies for monitoring and maintaining large-scale complex infrastructure, combining artificial intelligence and augmented reality to support greener, safer and more resilient societies.
Horizon Europe · MSCAHorizon Europe research initiative included in the DRSL project portfolio, connecting advanced digital methods, safety and resilience-oriented innovation.
Horizon EuropeTransformative climate resilience through Nature-based Solutions across European regions, supporting risk assessment, blue-green infrastructure, adaptation services and community-led implementation.
Horizon Europe · Mission AdaptationCompleted initiatives, ordered from the most recent starting year to the earliest.
Use of drones for Emergency Management. UAV-supported indoor tracking and victim localisation based on ultra-wideband radio-frequency technology.
ERC Proof of Concept · €150KResilience-based design of buildings under multiple hazards, developed jointly with ETH Zurich.
Compagnia di San Paolo · ETH ZurichIntegrated Smart Device for Emergency Management. Wearable sensing for indoor localisation, physical-condition monitoring and structural-state assessment, including operation during network or power outages.
ERC Proof of Concept · €150K
Design and construction of a tri-dimensional shaking table with augmented reality.
Politecnico di Torino
Adaptive and intelligent system for energy-consumption optimisation using IoT mobile sensor networks and structural health monitoring systems.
Siebel Energy InstituteIntegrated DEsign and control of Sustainable CommUnities during Emergencies. A decision-support framework integrating infrastructure performance and human behaviour before, during and after emergencies.
ERC Starting Grant · €1.3MImproving Reliability and Efficiency of Electrical Distribution Infrastructures through hybrid temporal-network modelling.
Siebel Energy InstituteDesign and construction of a bi-directional shaking table through the graduate-student projects programme.
Politecnico di Torino
A framework for modelling and assessing the effectiveness of resilience-enhancement strategies for structures and infrastructures.
Compagnia di San Paolo · Politecnico di TorinoDesign and construction of a mono-directional shaking table through the graduate-student projects programme.
Politecnico di Torino
Improving Resilience of Urban Societies through Advanced Technologies.
European Commission · FP7 · €350K
Increasing resilience of communities to earthquakes through smartphones after the 2012 Emilia event.
MIT–POLITOEuropean Communities Resilient Integrated through Smartphones.
Italy–Israel R&D · EUREKAPost-earthquake field-reconnaissance activities following the 2012 Emilia earthquake.
Politecnico di Torino · Emilia RegionGuiding L’Aquila reconstruction after the 2009 earthquake and rebuilding a resilient city against multiple hazards.
MIT–POLITOIntegrated European Disaster Community Resilience.
European Commission · FP7Thematic Field 3, Thrust Area 1, Task 3: Health Monitoring.
ReLUISIntegrated European Industrial Risk Reduction System.
European Commission · FP7A framework for defining and measuring disaster resilience at the community scale.
NIST · $69,751Quantification of organisational resilience for health-care facilities.
US Department of Homeland Security · $132KQuantification of resilience dimensions for specific facilities.
MCEER · NSF · NYS · $41,650Seismic global retrofit of structures through strength reduction and damping enhancement.
MCEER · NSF · NYS · $233,500Definition and quantification of resilience through centre-wide system-integrated resilience measures.
MCEER · NSF · NYS · $45KQuantifying the Value of Structural Health Monitoring. Participation as Management Committee Member.
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Research framework
The DRSL research programme integrates system-scale resilience with monitoring, control, digital technologies and advanced structural analysis.
Infrastructure systems, data-driven strategies and smart technologies for safer, sustainable cities.
Smart infrastructure, adaptive load-bearing and façade systems, and responsive materials.
Base isolation, negative-stiffness devices, and active, passive and semi-active control.
Operational modal analysis, sensing networks, analytics and the Internet of Things.
Non-destructive evaluation, adaptive rehabilitation, digital documentation and information modelling.
Real-time surveillance, risk assessment, emergency response and remote data acquisition.
Computer vision, resilience modelling and deep learning for structural health monitoring.
Applied Element Methods, failure-mechanism analysis and structural redundancy enhancement.
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