Alumni

Completed research projects

 2019

ARCE VILLA Rogelio

Seismic hazard assessment for the region of Valle del Cauca in Colombia

 

BADRELDIN Hazem Youssef Mohamed

Application of HVSR technique in resonance frequencies estimation of soil and buildings at Nuweiba city, Egypt

 
BHANDARI Chandani

Landslide susceptibility zonation mapping of Trishuli highway of State-3 of Nepal

 

CASTRO CARCAMO Rodolfo Antonio

Exposed-based risk assessment of ballistic sedimentation for San Salvador metropolitan area, El Salvador

 

COLAVITTO Bruno

Regional scale assessment of glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) hazard in North Patagonian Andes of Argentina and Chile

 

FREITAS GUIMARÃES Letícia

A Volcanic Risk Ranking for South America. See publications  

GROCH Damián

Risk assessment of debris flow at Huaraco and Huinganco basins (Neuquén, North of Patagonia Argentina)

 

HERMOSO RODRIGUEZ Obdulis Ysvett

Estimation of Seismic Microzonation for Valencia City, Carabobo State, Venezuela

 

HUNGER Gabriel

The influence of site effects on seismic risk: an example from the update of subsoil classes in the canton of Vaud

 

KANNAUJIA Abhilasha

Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing public school buildings of Himalayan Foothill region: a case study of Ramnagar Town, India

 

LAKHERA Shobhana

Soil Moisture and Precipitation based Thresholds for Landslides in Alaknanada Valley, Uttarakhand, India

 

MUKHTAR Rabiya

Development of Flood Damage Estimation Functions for Pakistan  

NIETO TORRES Amiel

Volcanic Risk Ranking for México and Central América. See publications  

PIEDRAHITA HINCAPIE Maria Teresa

Landslide Susceptibility Assessment in Valdivia, Antioquia, Colombia using LiDAR data

 

PUYO Philippe Marc André

Assessing national institutional policies related to climate change adaptation in Lower Mekong Region

 

SAHA Rajib Kumar

Flash Flooding Hazard Assessment in Tahirpur Upazila, Sunamganj District, Bangladesh

 

TEBBOUCHE Mohamed Yacine

Analysis of the site effects of the Mitidja (Algiers-Algeria) faults damage zones

 

TORUNO ALVAREZ Marjorie Isabel

Cartografía de la Amenaza por Inundación en la Microcuenca II de la Subcuenca sur del Lago Xolotlán, Managua, Nicaragua

 

 

2018

ADHIKARI Darshan Babu

Rockfall Risk Assessment and Management in Siddhababa section of Siddhartha Highway

 

AGUILAR CONTRERAS Rigoberto

Exposure-based risk assessment of tephra-fall associated with long-lasting Vulcanian eruptions at Sabancaya volcano, Peru

 
ALLEN Nicole

Framework for the Assessment of Potential Multi-Volcanic Hazard Impact for the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

 

ARANGO CARMONA Maria Isabel

Assessing channelized debris flow susceptibility using triggering and propagation models for tropical mountainous regions, a case study of the northern Andes, Colombia

 

BERNARD Aurélia

Assessment of social vulnerability due to coastal flooding in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta: a systematic review for Bangladesh

 

FERUJ ALAM Mohammad

Experimental analyses of soil from Motijhorna landslide hazard sites, Chittagong City, Bangladesh

 

GHO INZUNZA Rayen Alina

Systemic vulnerability assessment in relation to multiple volcanic hazards associated with Laguna del Maule Volcanic Field, Chile

 

JACOME PAZ Mariana Patricia

Social vulnerability of Esquipulas Guayabla town facing hazards from El Chichón volcano

 

KAUFMAN Johanna Florencia

Exposure-Based Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment of Copahue Volcano, Neuquén, Argentina

 

LOPEZ TORUNO Cristóbal Augusto

Application of GIS and remote sensing for flood prone zones identification in La Tablazón micro-watershed (Dipilto municipality, Nicaragua)

 

RANA Naresh

A Qualitative Seismic Microzonation of Srinagar town, India

 

RENGEL STRAFELLA José Gregorio

Seismic Risk Assessment of bridges in Caracas

 

RESTREPO RUIZ Evanaan

Landslide susceptibility assessment City of Freetown – Sierra Leona, Africa – Progress report. See publications  

ST-ARNAUD TREMPE Sarah

3D representation and rockfall risk comparison before and after the installation of mitigation measures on a portion of La Frasse Road, Switzerland

 

SINGH Deepshikha

Gendered Vulnerability and Resilience to Urban Flooding in Mumbai Metropolitan Region. See publications

 

TADESSE Amdemichael Zafu

Exposure-based tephra accumulation risk assessment in the Northern sector of Silti-Debre Zeyt Fault Zone, Central Ethiopia

 

VASCONEZ PAREDES Francisco Javier

Exposure-based risk analysis in a case of a Plinian eruption (VEI 4) of Pululahua Volcanic Complex, Ecuador

 

WEIR Alana May

Quantifying the systemic vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the Taranaki region of New Zealand

 

 

2017

ABEDI Amin

Systemic vulnerability of Swiss power grid to natural events. See publications

 

BHAN Manan

Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in India: A review of current policy outlook

 
CIHANGIR Mehmet Emin

Risk Assessment of Koyulhisar District Landslide with a Geomorphological Approach (Northern Turkey)

 

DEY Rajen

Derivation of Analytical Fragility Curves of Typical Building Typologies in Chittagong City For The Purpose of Loss Estimation and Risk Analysis

 

GATTUSO Alessandro

Lahar Risk Assessment at Vulcano Island. See publications

 

HAMIDATOU Mouloud

Seismic Hazard Assessment in Northeast part of Algeria

 

HAQUE Dewan Mohammad Enamul

Intensity Attenuation Model for Bangladesh With Respect To the Surrounding Potential Seismotectonic Regimes. See publications

 

HASSAN ELSAYED Hany Mohammed

Tsunami hazard and risk assessment for Alexandria coast, Egypt. See publications

 

REBA Yewubinesh Bekele

Exposure based-risk analysis of Aluto volcano

 

RINCON DURAN Luis Felipe

Proposal for the implementation of passive nano–seismic recording for landslide
monitoring: from seismic ambient-noise & acoustic emissions analysis toward landslide
failure prediction. Case of study in Colombia

 

TYAGI Neetu

Establishment of Landslide Warning System using Sensors data

 

YEGRES HERRERA Luis Alejandro

Assessment of site effects with microzoning purposes, using integrated geophysical data in Mérida – Venezuela

 

2016

AKBAS Abdullah  Assessment of Landslide Susceptibility in Hopa Basin (NE, Turkey) in Terms of Changing Climate  

JAISWAL Brajesh

Role of Lithological Composition and slope in landsliding : a case study of Rishikesh - Badrinath route, Uttarakhand, India

 

KOPP Anna

Assessing risk in the Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes due to ashfall

 

LAMBERTI Maria Clara Isabel

Assessment of the impact of Cordón Caulle 2011 tephra fallout on Patagonian vegetation: a remote sensing and a social approach

 

PANT Vedika

Landslide risk assessment and automated change detection using RS and GIS techniques in Kedarnath (Rudraprayag), India

 

SONG Er-Xuan

Development of refined flood warning messages for Taiwan using the warning message metric

 

WEI Shih-Chao

Potential impact of climate change and extreme events on slope land hazard with integrated numerical simulation - A Case Study of Xindian Watershed in Taiwan

 

YANG Fujian

The response analysis of RC frame structures under near-fault-pulse-like ground motions

 

2015

BORA Kritika

Seismic Vulnerability of Traditional Architectural Designs and modern construction in Kumaun Himalaya : a case study of a village and a municipal ward of district Almora, India

 

CALDERON BARRAZ Rodrigo Andres

Tephra fallout risk assessment at Villarrica volcano, Chile

 

HAYES Joshua

Estimating the impact of Auckland Volcanic Field eruption on residential habitability in Auckland City, New Zealand

 

LU Pengje

Research of building reinforcement in Yunnan province, China

 

POUSSIN Charlotte

Reviewing the tool "the role of land-use planning in flood management"

 

TYAGI Priyanka

Community participation in flash flood Disaster management in Kedarnath valley of Garhwal Himalaya

 

2014

DING Yang

Stochastic ground motion simulation of the Lushan Earthquake (Ms 7.0, April 20, 2013)

 

DOMINGUEZ Lucia

Tsunami risk assessment for the canton of Geneva, Switzerland

 

FORTE Pablo

Phenomenology and impacts of ash resuspension events in a rural community of Patagonia, Argentina, associated with the 2011-2012 Cordón Caulle eruption, Chile. See publications

 

GADEA VILLALBA Moisés Alejandro

Seismic Physical Vulnerability of Two Buildings in Asunción - Paraguay

 

HERNANDEZ GIRON Gissela

Spatial assessment of flooding related risks at La Ceiba, Honduras

 

MAZUMDER Ram Krishna

Development of Seismic Fragility Curves of Reinforced Concrete Building with URM Infill Walls in Bangladesh

 

SAMPSON ORTEGA Noel Alcides

Building resilient communities through urban planning and the integration of Natural Sciences

 

SY Bocar

Flooding exposure assessment in Djidah Thiaroye Kao (DTK), Senegal

 

WANTIM Mabel Nechia

Risk assessment from lava flows at Mount Cameroon Volcano, West-Central Africa. See publications

 

2013

CHAMPAGNAC Jean-Daniel

Present and future multi-hazard building risk assessment of the Grande-Eau valley (VD-CH) under changing climate

 

HEINIGER Mickaël

Modeling Volcano Evacuation Using Agent Based Modeling : Case of Vulcano Island

 

KHALIFA Noha

Flash flood risk drivers : systemic perspective of Alexandria lifelines

 

KOFFI Avy Stéphane

Assessment of the state of sanitation network for Abidjan in the analysis of flooding

 

LI Yanan

Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis for Liaoning, China using OpenQuake

 

MANEA Elena Florinela

Seismic risk assessment for Bucharest area. See publications

 

SALAMA Asem Mostafa Taha Mohamed

Strong ground motion recordings at the Nile Delta network, Egypt:A seismological and engineering overview

 

VARELA MUZZATI Roger Leonardo

Slope instability and landslide susceptibility study at quarry Cura, Carabobo-Venezuela

 

WILSON Grant

Probabilistic assessment of distal tephra fall impacts on critical infrastructure in Auckland, New Zealand

 

2012

ADLY Ashraf

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for north Egypt

 

ARISTIZABAL GIRALDO Edier Vicente

Modelling shallow landslides triggered by rainfall in tropical and mountainous terrains. See publications

 

BELTRAN DIEZ Alba

Seismic vulnerability assessment of lifelines in the "vega Baja" region (South-east of Spain)

 

DA SILVA Sandra Fernandes

Risk and land-use planning in Nova Friburgo - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

JAUPAJ Olgert

Susceptibility map of Kavaja, Albania. See publications

 

LAIB Abdelghani

Expected ground–RC buildings resonance phenomena in the commune of Kharrouba (Boumerdes)

 

UPRETI Paritosh

Seismic vulnerability analysis of buildings in Nainital Club Ward of Nainital Municipal area in Uttarakhand Himalayas

 

2011

GAUDARD Ludovic

Impact of climate change on hydropower revenue including market and private risks

 

ETIENNE Christophe

Investigations on the wind storm risk in the canton of Vaud (Western Switzerland). See publications

 

THOMPSON Mary Anne

Probabilistic analysis of Okataina Volcanic Centre tephra fall hazard and associated risk to agriculture in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. See publications

 

ZAMORA SAUMA Natalia

Tsunami hazard and risk perception evaluation in Tamarindo coastal community, Costa Rica

 

2010

ANELL Ingrid

Awareness of natural hazards and risk perception among tourists in Skaftafell National Park, SE Iceland

 

CONSTANTINESCU Robert

A multidisciplinary assessment of aspects of pyroclastic flow risk at El Misti volcano, south Peru

 

DUQUE-VELASCO Adriana

Debris flow and landslide risk assessment at La Virginia (Calarcá, Quindio, Colombia, South America)

 

PATHAK Vishal

Disaster Risk Assessment and Management in Schools in Ahmedabad, a metropolitan city of India

 

PENNA Ivanna

Assessment of debris flow risk along the National Route Nº 7 (Cristo Redentor International Border; Mendoza province, Argentina)

 

2009

AQUIN Marie-Claude

éluge du Saguenay 1996 : Description du phénomène, évaluation de la vulnérabilité et gestion des risques pour l’Arrondissement de Chicoutimi

 

KHISA Juliet Nabayi

Flood mitigation measures: case study of the Western region of Kenya

 

2008

BAJRACHARYA Sagar Ratna

Application of NOAA CPC-RFE product in stream flow model for flood prediction on the Bagmati River, Nepal

 

BIASS Sébastien

A fast and comprehensive qualitative GIS-based risk assessment for tephra fallout using global and easily accessible data: the example of Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador. See publications

 

CVETANOVSKA Julijana

Terrain instabilities analysis. Case study: sub urban part of City of Skopje. See publications

 

DARDENNE Vincent

Caractérisation des risques géologiques du bassin versant de la Gryonne, Préalpes vaudoises, Suisse

 

ETTINGER Susanne

Lahar risk assessment for a rural community at Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador

 

GALLARDO (VAGLIO) Dalvina

Caractérisation des risques géologiques du bassin versant de la Gryonne, Préalpes vaudoises, Suisse

 

NANTONGO Henrietta

Risk Management in Developing Countries Floods in Uganda – Soroti, Katakwi, Amuria Districts.(Year in Focus: 2007)

 

2007

BATISTA LOPES Joao Carlos

Investigation on seismic (under)ground response at the point 8 of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

 

BIRD Deanne

Hazard and risk perception in a popular tourist destination in Iceland - a pilot investigation.
See publications

DILEKLI Naci

Application of Information Systems in Emergency Management

 

GARCÍA LONDOÑO Carolina

Identification of Rainfall Thresholds for the Activation of Landslides in the city of Medellin

 

OZDEMIR Hasan

GIS Based Landslide Risk Assessment At Basin Scale

 

TAGLIAFERRO Mauricio

Generation of hazard maps due to mass movement susceptibility in mountain landscapes using a GIS-model

 

2006

AOURARI Sahra

Glissement de Telemely

 

BABIRYE Paula

Evaluation of the seismic context of Uganda

 

EJAZ Karim

Hazard risk mapping Sherquilla village in Pakistan

ELISSONDO Manuela

Landslide risk assessment in Plaza Oërtle, Cerro Catedra, Bariloche, Argentina

 

MAPENDANO Mathieu

Nyiragongo volcanic gases and it's risk on the neighbouring population

 

ORAL Volkan

Flood Disaster Risk Management Methods in Japan-Kumamoto City

SENE Aliou

Danger lié aux instabilités rocheuses par Matterock

 

SMILJKOVIC Djordje

Construction of a recreation center on flooded river island on Danube in Belgrade

2005

BABAYEV Gulam

Application of Elements of Seismic Hazard Assessment for Absheron Peninsula and Numerical Modeling of Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) for Baku city (the capital of Azerbaijan Republic)

 

CACERES Yezelia

Analisis del riesgo de desastre frente a la amenaza de erupción del volcán Ubinas, Perú

 

CHEIKLOUNIS Ghani

Evaluation du risque d'inondation dans la plaine Orientale de la Mitidja (Est d'Alger)

 

EGGER Cédric

Elaboration de la carte indicative des dangers eau (CIDE) pour la Broye fribourgeoise

 

KHUDOBASHOVA Sharifa

Detailed research on the landslide hazards at Baipaza (Tajikistan)

 

KUNDAK Seda

Economic Vulnerability Assessment in Housing – Case Study: Istanbul

 

MINA VALENCIA William

Use of deformation-based methodologies to check traditional vulnerability assessment

 

OTAMBEKOV Alibek

Risk Reduction in Muminobod Town

 

RODRIGUEZ Luz

Geomorphological hazard assessment and seismic microzonation in the conurbation of Barquisimeto-Cabudare, State of Lara, Venezuela

 

SEARS Tricia

The City of Portland’s Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan: Idealistic or Realistic?

SIMICEVIC Aleksandra

Mapping Urban Damage Asssessment in emergency period

 

TASIANAS Alexandros

Hazard, vulnerability and natural risks related to water and their mitigation on the southern coast of Crimea, Ukraine

 

TIGZIRI Malik

Architecture et séismes. Investigation sur le cas du séisme de Boumerdes du 21 mai 2003

 

2004

ABIROV Rustam

Seismic Risk Assessment in Uzbekistan and Measures for Its Mitigation

 

ASCANIO BENITHMAR Carolina

Major Floods in the Greater Caribbean Region, case Study: Venezuela 1999

GUEMACHE Mehdi

Etude des instabilités de terrain au niveau du site du pont de Sidi Rached (Constantine, Nord-Est Algérie)

LOPEZ Myriam

La falla de Cali : evidencias morfotectonicas de actividad reciente. Implicaciones para la amenaza sísmica de Cali

MESSAOUDI Mounia

Caractérisation du séisme du 22/12/1999 à Aïn Temouchent, Algérie

KLOSE Christian

Health risks of human exposed to volcanic sulfur dioxide on Vulcano Island, Sicily, Italy. See publications

VU Hong Son

Risk Assessment For Flood in Cuu Long River Delta, Vietnam

2003

ANGHELACHE Mirela Adriana

An Introduction to Seismic Risk Analysis for Vrancea Seismogenic Area, Romania

 

GREGOIRE Anne-Sophie

Risk analysis in Cerro El Volcan in the context of the design of a landslide monitoring system (Nicaragua)

GUPTA Vikram

Unusual landslide in Himalaya: causes and risk assessment

 

HELLEL Mustapha

Le séisme de Bourmerdès (Algérie) du 21 mai 2003 : caractérisation de l’événement sismique, analyse de la réponse à la catastrophe, réhabilitation et reconstruction

 

OCHOLA Samuel

Flood hazard and risk analysis of Ahero Town, River Nyando, Kenya

 

RIZAOGLU Tamer

Earthquake Hazard and vulnerability assessment of the Adana City and surrounding area

 

RUCH Joël

Gestion de crise et communication durant l’éruption du volcan Nyiragongo (17 janvier 2002) en République Démocratique du Congo. See publications

 

2002

DEVKOTA Sanjaya

Debris flow and landslide hazard assessment in Agrakhola Basin, Central Development Region, Nepal

 

DOWNS SELVA Miriam

Analisis de Amanazas por Inestabilidad de Laderas y Vulnerabilidad en el Municipio de Esquipulas, Nicaragua

KHAN Amir Ali

Urban seismic risk mitigation in India, case study of Dehli

MACHANE Djamal

Analyse et gestion du risque de glissement de terrain dans la ville de Constantine (Algérie)

MUNOZ Angelica

Analysis de riesgos naturales y propuesta de plan municipal de reduccion de desastres, municipio de Dipiltol Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua

VAN KUIK Christine

Health care management: a flood case study in Paris, France

2001

CHENNIT Isma

Scénario d’évaluation des dommages sismiques à l’aide de la méthode RADIUS dans la région d’Alger

 

GONZALEZ Manuel

Peligros Inducidos por deslizamientos e inundaciones des Rio Esteli, Nicaragua

GORE Fiona

Coastal erosion as a result of tropical cyclones in Tamil Nadu, India

SANCHEZ Luis Hernán

Uso de la geostatistica para evaluar la actividad sísmica regional

VARELA Chaves Randall

Vulnerabilidad sociocultural ante eventos naturales: caso de la précipitacion ácida en la cuenca Alta del Río Sarchí, Costa Rica

VONLANTHEN Pierre

Volcanic Risk Mitigation at Vesuvius (Italy)

2000

DEL GAIS Ugo

A Hypothesis of Evaluation of Geological Risks in Vulcano Island, with G.I.S. application, Italy

 

HERNANDEZ TREVETHAN Mareel

Evolution de la Réglementation Parasismique de la Ville de Mexico, Mexique

MARTINEZ Adiela

Glissement de Villatina 1987 Medellin, Colombie

RAÑOLA Julianita S.

Taal Volcano: An Overview on Hazards, Vulnerabilities and Risks

1999

CASTANEDA Jorge Enrique

Evolucion de los fénomenos de remocion en masa en ciénaga, Boyacacá, Colombia

 

DÜZGÜN Sebnem

Landslide risk Assessment by Decision Analytical Risk Assessment Procedure for Dereköy Konya, Turkey

FORESTE Kenny

Detection and analysis of surface deformations due to Bhy earthquake of January 2001 using remote sensing and GIS

MORET Alain

Etude de la région de Stiegelschwand (Adelboden, Berne/ Suisse). Etude détaillée du glissement de Stigelschwand-Blachti et création d’une carte de danger

MUNGER François

Suite à l’Ouragan MITCH qui a dévasté l’Amérique Centrale : Définition des axes de stratégie opérationnelle d’intervention de l’Aide Humanitaire/Corps Suisse en cas de Catastrophes (AH/CSC) de la DDC en matière d’évaluation, prévention, mitigation et préparation des catastrophes naturelles

PAPADIMITRIOU Kimon

An Information System for the Hazard Assessment at the Seih-Sou Forest, (Greece)

RASHED Tarek

Applications of GIS to Flood Hazard Assessment, a case study of rainfall-runoff modeling for Tijuana River Watershed (TRW) on the US-Mexican borders

SCHEURER Laurent

Analyse de risque de la région de Torryboden (Suisse)

1998

ALPAY BIRO Yesim

Assessment of seismic Hazard for Aegean and Neighboring Regions.

 

AKHAND Monowar Hossain

Cyclone Hazard and Vulnerability Analysis in the Coastal and Offshore Islands of Bangladesh

CAN Tolga

Instability thematic and danger mapping: an application from Western Black Sea Region (Persembe, Zongudak - Turkey)

DOULET Sophie

Participation à l’évaluation du risque volcanique à la Martinique.

LIU Xilin

Comparison of the Methods on Zonation Maps of Debris Flow Hazard in Yunnan Province, China

NEIVA D'ORSI Ricardo

The Rio De Janeiro Landslide and Intense Rain Warning System

SARKAR Shantanu

Risk assessment of potential landslide dams in the Valleys of La Veveyse and Veveyse de Fegire

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