The University of Bologna and Pavia University have become the latest additions to the Willis Research Network.

 

From Bologna, we welcome one of the world's leading flood and rainfall run-off experts Professor Ezio Todini who will be supported by Dr Mario Martina, appointed as Willis Research Fellow at Department of Earth and Geo-Environmental Science and the University of Bologna. Dr Martina has worked in the field of flood modelling for over ten years.

 

From the University of Pavia, the EUCENTRE has joined the network to enhance the quality of the earthquake research and modelling it offers to the international re-insurance industry. The EUCENTRE, Europe’s largest earthquake research facility, incorporates the renowned ROSE School of postgraduate seismic research and engineering at the University of Pavia. Dr Rui Pinho becomes a Senior Academic within the WRN. Dr Pinho is Head of the Seismic Risk Section of EUCENTRE and Assistant Professor of Structural Design in the Department of Structural Mechanics at the University of Pavia.