About

Dr. Leandro Iannacone conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates structural engineering, hazard science, and statistics to inform disaster risk management, with a focus on quantifying community-level resilience and effectively communicating risk to stakeholders.

He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Structural Engineering at Lund University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the DE|RISC Lab at University College London. He earned his PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022) in the MAE Center (Multi-hazard Approaches to Engineering) under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Gardoni. He also holds an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2019), an M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of Pisa (2016), and a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Pisa (2012).

His research focuses on deterioration modeling, multihazard analysis, value of information analysis, vulnerability and fragility modeling, and resilience quantification, among other topics. More broadly, he is enthusiastic about applying advanced statistical techniques to collect, analyze, and update data related to civil infrastructure systems.