Floriana Petrone joined the University of Nevada, Reno as an assistant professor in 2019. Prior to that, she was research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA). Her work focused on the development of advanced numerical tools for the seismic nonlinear analysis of the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear facilities and systems. Current research activities include the study of site-specific variation of earthquake structural risk at the regional scale and the investigation of new techniques for structural damage detection through experimental work and advanced numerical analyses.

Prof. Petrone is currently looking for highly motivated graduate students to join her research group. Areas of research would include advanced numerical modeling of structural systems to couple with synthetic ground motions and uncertainty quantification in numerical modeling to gain knowledge on implications for optimal and risk-informed performance-based seismic design; experimental testing of innovative structural damage assessment techniques and development of system optimization methods. 

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