Young members are represented within the SECED by the Young Members' Subcommittee (YMSC). The aim of the YMSC is to provide a platform to showcase the talent of young members to the wider community, promote collaboration amongst students and young professionals, enhance knowledge in the fields of earthquake engineering and civil engineering dynamics and sharing ideas and concerns with the wider membership of the Society. They all share a passion for earthquake and engineering dynamics and have already shown great enthusiasm and ideas in the early meetings. Included as part of this section are brief bias of each YMSC member.
| Jessica Christie | YMSC Chair |
 |
Jessica is a Civil Structural Engineer at AtkinsRéalis working within the Nuclear industry in the UK. She is currently seconded to Rolls-Royce SMR. As part of the Civil, Structural, and Architecture team,
Her role focuses on the design and assessment of reactor island structures, applying structural and seismic engineering principles to support the development of a standardised small modular reactor design. She holds an MEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol where she completed a research project, in which a comprehensive analysis was undertaken on raw vibration data, producing the input for a generated and validated neural network, to generate an algorithm capable of detecting damage preventatively for the application to offshore wind turbines. Her technical interests include galloping and vortex shedding instability, incremental dynamic analysis, and seismic risk management.
|
|
Mohamed Elzeadani |
YMSC Immediate Past Chair |
 |
Mohamed is a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on enhancing connection ductility for the safe design of timber structures under both static and dynamic loading. His technical interests revolve around the response of structures to extreme loads and ways to ensure safety and robustness in structural design. Mohamed holds a PhD from Imperial College London, as well as a MSc (Structural Engineering) and a BEng (Civil Engineering) from Universiti Putra Malaysia. |
| Harshit Agrawal | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
Harshit is a Structural Engineer at AtkinsRéalis, specialising in the FE modelling and seismic assessment of complex nuclear structures. He has extensive experience in the analysis and design of safety-classified structures for the EPR2 and Sizewell C nuclear programmes. His work includes the development, verification, and validation of large-scale FE models, the interpretation of seismic results, and the automation of post-processing workflows through Python. He currently leads the analytical delivery of seismic assessment activities on the EPR2 project and contributes to the development and implementation of analysis methodologies. Harshit is currently working towards Chartered Engineer (CEng) status with the Institution of Civil Engineers and actively supports the profession through STEM outreach and early careers engagement initiatives. |
| Atif Rasheed | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
Atif is a PhD Scholar in the Emerging Structural Technologies group at Imperial College London. His research is centred on developing innovative and low-cost solutions to enhance the seismic resilience of vulnerable communities in developing regions. Atif holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology and a Master’s degree in Structural Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan. Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Atif served as a Lecturer at NUST for three years. He played a pivotal role in the development of seismic hazard maps that have been incorporated into the updated Pakistan Building Code, demonstrating his commitment to improving the country’s preparedness for seismic events. His research interests include seismic hazard analysis, disaster risk reduction, and the development of strategies for resilient infrastructure in earthquake-prone regions. |
| Maria Maglio | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
Maria Maglio is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy. Her research focuses on the seismic design and probabilistic assessment of steel moment-resisting frames, with particular emphasis on innovative damage-free connection systems such as FREEDAM. She achieved her PhD in Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Systems from the University of Salerno, where she investigated force-based seismic design methodologies in European and Japanese practice. She has been a visiting researcher at Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan) and City, University of London (UK). Her current work involves developing design criteria for predefined collapse mechanisms in steel seismic-resistant structures using the Theory of Plastic Mechanism Control. More recently, she has expanded her research to the seismic performance of aluminium structural elements for building applications. |
| James Douglas | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
James is a Senior Engineer working at AtkinsRéalis and his work focusses on the seismic analysis in the Nuclear industry. After graduation from the University of Sheffield with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering, he joined an AtkinsRéalis team that specialises in Structural Dynamics. He has worked on design of nuclear safety-classified structures on Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C projects, as well as other nuclear new-build sites in France. In addition, he has worked on defence projects, performing substantiations for existing and new structures with a safety-case requirement to consider a seismic hazard. James is currently responsible for leading seismic analysis teams in AtkinsRéalis and is active in developing new methodologies. |
| Milindu Jayasekara | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
Milindu Jayasekara is a Senior Engineer in the advanced structural analysis team at WSP, UK. Before joining WSP, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He also served as a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, where he obtained his B.Sc. (Honours) in Engineering. He also holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Milindu’s research interests include protective design of structures under extreme loads, timber structures, computational mechanics, deployable structures, and automation. |
| Chunrong Lu | YMSC Elected Member |
 |
Chunrong is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research focuses on the punching shear behaviour of reinforced-concrete flat slabs under cyclic loading, with emphasis on seismic performance and the safe design of structures in earthquake-prone regions. Her technical interests include the nonlinear response of concrete systems, cyclic moment transfer, and strategies to improve structural robustness. She holds an MSc (Structural Engineering) from Imperial College London and a BEng (Civil Engineering) from the University of Liverpool, and has structural engineering experience across several countries where earthquake-resilient design was central to her work. |