• Property flood resilience modelling

    Role: Senior consultant

    Client: An insurtech company

    2026

    Photo: Alan Hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Impact of energy security risks

    Role: Senior modeller

    Client: A UK government department

    2025–

    Photo: Kkiefuik, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Short course on earthquake risk modelling

    Role: Consultant

    Client: A reinsurance company

    2021

    Photo: Atomicdragon136, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal

    Independent monitoring and verification of the structural retrofit

    Role: Senior engineer

    Client: UK aid, Nepal Health Sector Support Programme (NHSSP III)

    2018–2020

    Photo: Pokhara, Saroj Pandey, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • Palaghiaccio sport centre, Bari

    Seismic assessment and retrofit

    Role: Engineer

    Client: A private client

    2018

    Photo: Ben P L, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • ENFRAG

    Enhancing state-dependent fragility through experimentally validated energy-based approaches: cyclic and shake-table tests on masonry infills

    Role: PI

    Funder: ERIES, European Commission

    2023–2024 · €80,000

    Project page
  • Tomorrow's Cities

    UKRI GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub: risk-informed, pro-poor planning of growing cities

    Role: Researcher Co-I

    Funder: UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund

    2019–2024 · £20M hub

    Project page
  • MULTIRES

    Multi-level framework to enhance the seismic resilience of RC buildings, combining retrofit and insurance

    Role: PI

    Funder: European Commission, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship

    2019–2021 · €212,934

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  • INSPIRE

    Indonesia School Programme to Increase Resilience: earthquake and tsunami risk of school buildings

    Role: Researcher Co-I

    Funder: British Council, Newton Fund

    2018–2019 · £120,000

    Project page

    Photo: Gentile et al. (2019), CC BY 4.0

  • i-RESIST

    Increasing the resilience of schools in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to earthquake shaking and tsunami

    Role: Researcher Co-I

    Funder: Research England, UCL Global Challenges Research Fund

    2019 · £99,630

    Project page

    Map: Gentile et al. (2019), CC BY 4.0

  • 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, Morocco

    EEFIT reconnaissance mission after the Mw 6.8 earthquake

    2023

    Photo: Lucyin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • 2019 Mamurras earthquake, Albania

    EEFIT reconnaissance mission after the Mw 6.4 earthquake

    2019

    Photo: Freddi et al. (2021), CC BY 4.0

  • 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Reconnaissance after the Mw 7.8 earthquake

    2016

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  • Government of Indonesia and UK reinsurers

    Invited presentation at a strategic meeting at Lloyd's, London

    2025

    Photo: Lloyd's building atrium, Colin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  • 2017 New Zealand seismic assessment guidelines

    Working group for the reinforced-concrete section, which includes the SLaMA method I extended and validated in my PhD; the SLaMA app is used by 30+ engineering firms

    2017

    SLaMA app
  • Invited talks

    Keynotes, lectures and webinars for industry, government and universities

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  • Academic service

    Editor of Discover Hazards; scientific committees; grant and journal reviewing

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Dr Roberto GentileAssociate ProfessorCatastrophe Risk Modelling · UCL

I provide tools that allow engineers to use quantified risk as a metric for design, and risk modellers to improve their estimates using advanced engineering methods.

I co-direct the DE|RISC Lab at UCL.

I am the founder of OpenVulnerability.

I'm available for consultancy in risk modelling, especially for seismic and flood fragility and vulnerability models, damage and loss estimates for buildings and infrastructure. I also advise on the seismic assessment and retrofit of reinforced-concrete structures.

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PhD in Earthquake EngineeringChartered Civil Engineer (Italy)