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Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Modoni, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy.

Seminar topic: Assessment of seismic liquefaction risk at the urban scale.

The professor is a member of the International Advisory Panel of POB4. The seminar will take place on 15 December 2021 using Zoom communicator. It will start at 4 p.m.

Registration for the seminar: in order to obtain a link to the Zoom platform, should be made by email to grzegorz.sierpinski@polsl.pl no later than 14 December 2021.

Giuseppe Modoni is a profesor at the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, Italy. He graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Napoli, Federico II, in 1994. He completed a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the Consortium of the Universities of Rome and Napoli in 1999. He has been awarded with fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2004) and the Silesian University of Technology in Poland (2006-2008). He is a Member of the Italian Geotechnical Society (Associazione Geotecnica Italiana – AGI) and has participated to the AGI Committee for preparing the Recommendation on Jet Grouting. His research activity spans from laboratory investigation and theoretical modelling of the stress strain response of coarse-grained materials, design of jet grouting, interpretation and modelling of large-scale geotechnical problems. He has authored several papers in geotechnical journals and conferences and is reviewer for prestigious international journals. He has published two books on Jet Grouting, one in Italian published by Hevelius (2005), the other in English published by Taylor and Francis (2014). He has about 20 years of geotechnical consultant experience in Italy and Europe.