Property flood resilience modelling
Role: Senior consultant
Client: An insurtech company
2026
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Impact of energy security risks
Role: Senior modeller
Client: A UK government department
2025–
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Short course on earthquake risk modelling
Role: Consultant
Client: A reinsurance company
2021
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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
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Palaghiaccio sport centre, Bari
Seismic assessment and retrofit
Role: Engineer
Client: A private client
2018
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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 pageTomorrow'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 pageMULTIRES
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
Read moreINSPIRE
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 pagePhoto: 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 pageMap: Gentile et al. (2019), CC BY 4.0
2023 Al Haouz earthquake, Morocco
EEFIT reconnaissance mission after the Mw 6.8 earthquake
2023
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2019 Mamurras earthquake, Albania
EEFIT reconnaissance mission after the Mw 6.4 earthquake
2019
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Government of Indonesia and UK reinsurers
Invited presentation at a strategic meeting at Lloyd's, London
2025
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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 appInvited 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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