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Giuseppe Galbiati
Giuseppe Galbiati has a Master’s degree in Architecture and Building Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2020). He is currently PhD candidate at EPFL (Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture – prof. Franz Graf) in co-direction with the UCLouvain (LOCI Faculty – prof. Giulia Marino). He has been external collaborator at Mobil’homme Lausanne between 2018 and 2019 and teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2019 he writes for Artribune journal in the section of architecture.
His scientific interests are focused on preservation and thermal retrofitting of the modern and contemporary heritage and on the history of construction techniques of XX-century’s buildings. He started developing these themes in his Master’s thesis project and continuing exploring them in his PhD studies, through international publications and research by design.
Aryan Rezaei Rad
Aryan Rezaei Rad is a structural (and earthquake) engineer and postdoctoral researcher at the laboratory for timber construction (IBOIS). Aryan studied Earthquake Engineering at Tehran Polytechnic, and Structural Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he earned his PhD in 2020 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Yves Weinand and Prof. Dr. Henry Burton.Aryan's areas of expertise include computer-aided engineering, numerical simulations and Finite Element analysis, nonlinear structural analysis, computer programming, structural dynamics, risk-based (probabilistic) performance assessment, and experimental testing. Aryan has also experienced graduate research assistantship studying the collapse performance of Los Angeles woodframe structures under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Henry Burton at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).