Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering

The Editors have gathered their complementary experience and expertise in universities worldwide and on different professional trajectories.Michael Beer, Dr.-Ing., obtained his degrees in civil engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He worked at Rice University as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and held a faculty position at National University of Singapore in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Beer was a professor and the founding director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty in the University of Liverpool. He is now professor and head of the Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, as well as a guest professor in Tongji University, Shanghai, China and a part-time professor in the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool.Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Ph.D., obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the civil and environmental engineering department of Rice University, Texas, USA. He also holds a five-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and is a professional/chartered civil engineer in Greece. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, New York, USA.Edoardo Patelli, Ph.D., obtained his degrees in nuclear engineering and Ph.D. in radiation science and technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He worked at the Institute for Engineering Mechanics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is currently a lecturer in uncertainty and engineering at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the head of computational technology for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification. Patelli is also an honorary member of the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Siu-Kui Au, Ph.D., is a chartered civil engineer in Hong Kong and obtained his B.Eng. and M.Phil. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (USA). He is currently a professor of uncertainty, reliability and risk at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty. Before joining Liverpool he has held faculty positions at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the City University of Hong Kong. He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo City University (Japan) and Wuhan University (China).