Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering

The Editors have gathered theircomplementary experience and expertise in universities worldwide and ondifferent professional trajectories.Michael Beer,Dr.-Ing., obtained his degrees in civil engineering from the TechnicalUniversity of Dresden, Germany. He worked at Rice University as a fellowof the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and held a faculty position atNational University of Singapore in the Department of Civiland Environmental Engineering. Dr. Beer was a professor and thefounding director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty in theUniversity of Liverpool. He is now professor and head of the Institute forComputer Science in Civil Engineering at Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizUniversity Hannover, Germany, as well as a guest professor in TongjiUniversity, Shanghai, China and a part-time professor in the Institute forRisk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool.Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Ph.D., obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the civiland environmental engineering department of Rice University, Texas, USA.He also holds a five-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the NationalTechnical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and is a professional/charteredcivil engineer in Greece. He is currently an assistant professor at theDepartment of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at ColumbiaUniversity, 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, Universityof Innsbruck, Austria. He is currently a lecturer in uncertainty andengineering at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty at the University ofLiverpool, UK, and the head of computational technology for the EPSRCCentre 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 andPh.D. from the California Institute of Technology (USA). He is currently aprofessor of uncertainty, reliability and risk at the Institute for Riskand Uncertainty. Before joining Liverpool he has held faculty positions atthe Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the City Universityof Hong Kong. He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo City University(Japan) and Wuhan University (China).