The 19th Mallet-Milne Lecture

Synopsis

A title and synopsis of the lecture will be provided in the coming months. For further information about the Mallet-Milne Lecture, SECED’s biennial prestige lecture, and its previous awardees, see  the main page for the 19th Mallet-Milne Lecture.

About the speaker

Gian Michele Calvi (1957), is Professor at the IUSS Pavia, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the North Carolina State University. He received a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD from the Politecnico di Milano and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cujo, Mendoza, Argentina. He is the author of hundreds of research publications spanning diverse aspects of earthquake engineering, including seismic design and assessment methodologies for new and existing structures, with a special focus on masonry and reinforced concrete buildings and bridges; development of displacement-based seismic design methodologies; and seismic isolation technologies and their application. He has also been designer, consultant or checker for many structural projects, including the Rion-Antirion cable-stayed bridge (2883 m, in Greece), the Bolu viaduct (119 spans, in Turkey) and the new housing system developed in the aftermath of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, wherein 185 seismically-isolated buildings were constructed in just six months to rehouse the displaced population.

Professor Calvi is the founder of the Eucentre Foundation, the earthquake engineering research centre and laboratory based in Pavia, Italy, and of the ROSE School, the post-graduate training programme that has trained hundreds of engineers and researchers for more than two decades. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the GEM Foundation and is the President Elect of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor and Francis) and has been an invited keynote speaker in tens of conferences, including two World and four European Conferences on Earthquake Engineering. 

Further information

The Mallet-Milne Lecture is a biennial event established by the SECED in honour of the pioneering British scientists Robert Mallet (1818-1883) and John Milne (1850-1913). There is no charge to attend the lecture. Sponsorships are also available – for further information, please contact Damian Grant. More details and registration link will be published in due course.