Yaseen MahmoodRisk Engineer
Biography
Yaseen is a Risk Engineer with expertise in natural hazard risk and loss modelling. He collaborates with senior scientists on research projects aimed at enhancing methodologies for assessing damage, recovery, and risk associated with cascading natural hazards and climate change events. Yaseen works closely with hazard and climate experts to define hazard intensity parameters and develop vulnerability profiles for buildings and utility infrastructure. His role also includes the development and maintenance of inventory databases of buildings, infrastructure, and population. Leveraging a strong engineering background, he contributes to the development of tools used for loss and disruption modelling, supporting more effective risk assessment and disaster resilience planning.
Qualifications
- BSc, Civil Engineering
- MSc, Civil Engineering - Earthquake Engineering
Areas of expertise
- Engineering: cascading hazard risks
- Engineering: Earthquake engineering
- Engineering: Earthquake Engineering (Structures)
- Engineering: Engineering seismology
- Engineering: Loss modelling
- Engineering: Natural hazards assessment
- Engineering: Natural Hazards Risk Assessment
- Engineering: Numerical modelling
- Engineering: Performance based Earthquake Engineering
- Engineering: Post earthquake reconnaissance
- Engineering: probabilistic seismic hazard estimates
- Engineering: Risk assessment
- Engineering: Seismic resilience of infrastructure
- Engineering: Seismology
- Engineering: Structural engineering
- Engineering: Structural Health Monitoring
- Engineering: Structural response