Group picture (June 2023) 

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Visiting Students

• Rajib Biswas, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), Research project: Seismic performance evaluation of deteriorating RC structures
• Daniele Reale, Politecnico di Bari (Italy), Research project: Seismic response of steel buildings

MSc Students

Alumni - PhD graduates

• Leena Kibriya (2020), Damage avoidance self-centring steel rocking frames
• Rodrigo Thiers Moggia (2020), Seismic control of rocking structures using inereters ★ Unwin Prize for the Best PhD Thesis of the Department
• Zhan Lyu (PhD 2020), Design and structural response of under-deck cable-stayed timber-concrete composite (TCC) bridges
• Adeyanju Teslim-Balogun (PhD 2020),  Structural performance of steel buildings under travelling fires and blast
• Cagatay Demirci (PhD 2019), Seismic response of multi-storey cross laminated timber buildings
• Luis Fernando Sirumbal Zapata (PhD 2019), Advanced damage modelling for the seismic assessment of timber structures
• Vasileios Karagiannis (PhD 2017), Behaviour of hybrid timber-steel beam-to-column connections

Alumni - MSc

• Pei Zhang (MSc 2019), Low-cost open-source dynamic testing
• Sebastian Aedo Maluje (MSc 2019), Seismic response of timber structures ★ Dissertation won the Basu Prize in Civil Engineering
• Junjia Lyu (MSc 2019), Structural monitoring through complex vibration modes
• Qianxi Zhang (MSc 2019), Seismic response of structures with first and second kind similarities
• Catalina Meza (MSc 2019), Digitally-manufactured wooden beams for optimized dynamic performance
• Emily Peper (MSc 2018), Progressive collapse analysis of cross laminated timber structures ★ Dissertation won First Prize for MSc research from the IStructE
• Jingren Wu (MSc 2018), Seismic response of tall and slender steel structures
• Manousos Psaltakis (MSc 2017), Assessment of acceleration demands through low-order building models
• Hend Tubaila (MSc 2017), Equivalent viscous damping for performance-based design of rocking CLT walls
• Xiao Pan (MSc 2017), External resonators for seismic control of monumental structures
• Yiwei Hu (MSc, 2017), Influence of alternative degradation modelling strategies on the seismic response of RC columns
• Mohammed Abdelhadi (MSc 2016), Avanced Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) stability systems, in collaboration with Ramboll UK
• Manon Dangelser (MSc 2016), Impact of building type on seismic losses considering environmental costs
• Yara Achcouty (MSc 2016), Modelling fatigue induced collapse of RC bridge piers
• Bryan Carroll (MSc 2015), Performance of Cross-Laminated-Timber (CLT) subjected to fires
• Konstantinos Bougatsas (MSc 2015), Probabilistic seismic assessment of alternative building systems.
• Shijia Yang (MSc 2015), Interaction between ground motion characteristics and structural model in nonlinear dynamic analysis.
• Ishan Abeisekara (MSc 2014), Dynamic response of tall timber buildings. ★ First Prize for MSc research from the IStructE
• Katerina Zographou (MSc 2014), Dimensional response analysis of regular and irregular RC frames

Alumni - MEng

• Jad Maqdah, Artificial Intelligence applied to the design of extraterrestrial structures ★ Best Structures Project  ★ Basu Prize in Civil Engineering 
• Thomas McLean, Optimal design of long span structures in low gravity conditions ★ Best Structures Project 
• Reema Ismail, Advanced modelling of the mechano-sorptive behaviour of wood 
• Marco Lok Fung Cheng (MEng 2017),  Motion control through supplemental rotational inertia

• Jeremy Ilkanaev (MEng 2017),  Dynamic behaviour of digitally-manufactured wooden beams with integrated resonators
• Paul Zhu (MEng 2016) Structural response of robotically-fabricated jonits for CLT folded structures ★ Best Poster IStructE 
• Xiayang Zheng (MEng 2016) Seismic response of an 8-storey timber building
• Juliet Kernohan (MEng 2015) Experimental assessment of the force re-distribution in CLT panels under earthquake loads
• Clara Gomez Torres (MEng 2015) Parametric design of timber grid-shell structures: structural form-finding and optimisation ‌‌ 
• Marcello Valerio Castelo (MEng 2015) Seismic performance of weak-base strong-column frame systems‌. Co-supervised with Prof Amit Kanvinde, UCDavis‌‌
• Charalambos Spanos (MEng 2014) Seismic response of alternative steel framing systems ★Best Departmental Poster Prize

Past Visiting Researchers

• Umut Almac, Seismic response of masonry structures timber-lacings. (Assist. Prof. Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
• Daia Zwicky, Wooden structures. (Head of the Institute for Building and Environmental Technologies at the Fribourg University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
• Jasmine Stragapede, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Research project: Structural implementation of inerters in steel structures
• Carlos Menéndez Vicente, RWTH Aachen (Germany), Research project: Structural implementation of motion-control devices

Past Group Photos:

Group picture (Feb 2023) 

At a group meeting (2022)

At the IStructE's Young Researchers Conference 2019