We heard from Professor Carmine Galasso on 18th November 2024, as part of our event with UCL CAVE –  Future Action Planning for Climate Adaptation.

Carmine Galasso is a  Professor of Catastrophe Risk Engineering and Research Director at the University College London (UCL)’s Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (CEGE), UK, and a Visiting Professor at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

Before his tenure at UCL, he led and participated in catastrophe risk modelling projects exceeding $5 million at AIR Worldwide in San Francisco, CA, working with clients such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. 

His research focuses on developing and applying probabilistic and statistical methods, as well as computational and digital tools, for catastrophe risk modelling and disaster risk reduction. 

He investigates risks to building portfolios and infrastructure exposed to multiple natural hazards, including earthquakes, typhoons, and floods, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and community assets, including heritage buildings. 

Carmine has authored >300 peer-reviewed articles (>130 articles in Q1 journals); his research (>£5.5M as a Project Lead) is funded by the UK Research Councils, the European Commission, the British Council, the World Bank and its Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, and the Willis Research Network, among others. 

He is the UCL PI and a key investigator of the £20 million Global Challenges Research Fund Urban Disaster Risk Hub (the ‘Tomorrow’s Cities’ project), leading the Risk Research College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; a Handling Editor for the Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Nature Communications Engineering; and one of the Founders and the Executive Editor for Operations for Seismica, a new community-driven Diamond Open Access journal publishing peer-reviewed research in seismology and earthquake science and engineering.