The Building Resilient research group is strengthening its international collaboration and knowledge transfer through an active program of international research stays. Currently, three team members are carrying out advanced research at prestigious European universities, while the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) hosts a visiting professor from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB). These three-month stays reinforce Building Resilient’s commitment to international scientific collaboration and the search for innovative solutions to mitigate progressive collapse in buildings.
Two outgoing stays are hosted at University College London (UCL), UK. On the one hand, Andri Setiawan is collaborating with Professors Fabio Freddi and Carmine Galasso under the Enring project (funded through the Junior Leader Fellowship programme of the ”la Caixa” Foundation), focusing on extending a multi-hazard robustness index to building portfolios to assist decision-makers in risk assessment and collapse prevention. On the other hand, Marcos Arias is working at the same institution alongside Professor Fabio Freddi, developing high-fidelity numerical models to evaluate how roof-level retrofit beams enhance structural robustness in steel buildings, as part of the Enhance project (funded by the Generalitat Valenciana under the Prometeo program).
The team’s outgoing mobility is completed by Lorenzo Marin’s stay at the Université de Liège (ULiège), Belgium, where he is working alongside Professor Jean-François Demonceau. His research focuses on improving the robustness of steel and composite buildings through force-limiting elements integrated into the Fuse-Based Segmentation approach. This work is conducted within the framework of the Endure project (funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme).
Simultaneously, UPV welcomes Sandra del Río, Assistant Professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) and member of the ConStruct research group. During her stay in Valencia, Sandra is evaluating the potential of iron-based shape memory alloys (Fe-SMA) as an innovative strategy to enhance the structural robustness of precast concrete buildings.
Through these initiatives, Building Resilient consolidates a two-way talent exchange network that pairs international outreach with the attraction of top research talent.
