On May 16th, from 10:15, a seminar titled  “Earthquake Response: The Case of Turkey and Morocco (2023)“, will take place in Room B.5.2 (Building 14 – Nave, Politecnico di Milano, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32).

The seminar will be conducted by Giulia Jole Sechi (PhD candidate on the role of digital technology in informal settlements construction at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona). 

You can also join the online seminar via Webex using the following link.

Speaker’s bio

Giulia Jole Sechi graduated in 2013 in civil structural engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis partially written in Peru on earth dwellings reinforced with used car tyre straps. She then lived two years in Chad and three years in New Zealand, where she worked on the 2010-2011 Christchurch and 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes. Giulia also worked in Nepal with UNDP for the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, before going to Tanzania and India. She has worked as structural engineering consultant for Miyamoto International on the 2021 Haiti earthquake response and is now Associate Engineer at Miyamoto International. As part of her job she was deployed in Turkey after the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake and in Morocco after the September 2023 earthquake. She is also currently pursuing her PhD on the role of digital technology in informal settlements construction at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona.