A/Prof. Dr. Gabriele Chiaro

Topic of the Presentation:

Key aspects of the liquefaction potential of gravelly soils: insights from laboratory investigations

About Speaker:

Gabriele Chiaro is an Associate Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on “Geotechnical Engineering for Resilience and Sustainability” with special interests on earthquake geotechnical engineering and related problems, geo-disaster risk assessment and mitigation, experimental geotechnics (i.e., soil behaviour from very small to large strain levels); environmental geotechnics; GSI systems for seismic-resilient structures; computational geotechnics (constitutive, DEM and FEM modelling). He holds a BEng and MEng degree in civil engineering (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy), and a PhD degree in geotechnical earthquake engineering (University of Tokyo, Japan). His research career involves 16 years of work in the academy, including 5 years in Japan, 3 years in Australia and 8 years in New Zealand. His research has been sponsored through competitive grant awards from a diverse range of funding agencies, including EQC, MBIE (Smart Ideas Endeavour Fund), QuakeCoRE, DEVORA, JSPS and JST. To date, he has secured over NZ$ 3 million in external research funds (of which NZ$ 2+ million as a primary investigator). He has authored or co-authored over 150 technical publications. His honours include 2 JGS Best Paper Awards (2022), IABSE Outstanding Scientific Paper Award (2021), NZSEE Otto Glogau Award (2020), and a JSPS Research Fellowship (2014). Gabriele served as the Team Leader of the 2016 NZSEE “Learning from Earthquake” Mission in Kumamoto, Japan, and Team Co-Leader of the 2015 JGS/JSCE “Learning from Earthquake” Mission in Nepal. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. He is representing the NZGS as a member of the ISSMGE AsRTC1 “Geotechnical Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change-induced Geo-disasters in Asia-Pacific Regions”..