5-day intensive PhD Autumn School targeted to Civil and Enviromental Engineering PhD candidates, post-doc researchers and early-career scientists working on seismic and flood risk at urban scale, who are interested in broadening their knowledge through a multi-risk approach!

Thanks to distinguished international speakers and the RETURN partnership, participants will have the opportunity to delve into key open challenges in the multi-risk perspective through cross-cutting sessions, and to explore the latest advances in seismic and flood risk in dedicated parallel sessions. 

Venue: Annunziata convent -Bay of Silence in Sestri Levante (Liguria – Italy).

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/mwkDfC7SRQtnv4yw8

Pre-registration is open until July 15, 2025 – maximum number of participants: 35!!  NO REGISTRATION FEE!!!

The Annual Poster Session of the PhD Program in Security, Risk and Vulnerability (SRV), organized in collaboration with the SERICS Extended Partnership, was an important opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing within the scientific community. The event brought together over 100 participants — including PhD candidates, faculty members, and researchers — for an afternoon dedicated to the presentation of key results achieved within the SERICS project and the discussion of ongoing research activities, all set in the prestigious venue of the Genoa Aquarium.  The main protagonists of the event were the SRV PhD candidates, who presented their posters illustrating the progress of their respective research projects. These presentations fostered constructive dialogue with colleagues and faculty, encouraging the exchange of ideas and interdisciplinary discussion.  The students who won the POSTER awards are: 1) Francesco Villani (CSRAI – “σ-zero: Gradient-based Optimization of l₀-norm Adversarial Examples”); 2) Laura Gago-Choren (RCCSD - Risk and vulnerability in rural communities); 3) Manjitha Mathew (MS - Sustainability and Consumer Behaviour in the Fast Fashion Industry). Moreover, Marco Lazzati (RRENIB) has been selected to participate to the InVulnerabilia event scheduled from June 12, 2025 to June 14,2025. The Coordinator thanks all members of the Organizing Committee for the great job done. Here the link to the video of the event: https://youtu.be/npx3XgmdAcA.

We are delighted to announce that  Prof Elizabeth Searing of the University of Texas at Dallas will deliver a seminar for the Resilience Course, titled "Building a Framework for Nonprofit Resilience".

The seminar will be held at the Department of Economics and Business Studies in the Darsena Area on June 25, from 10 AM to 12 PM in Aula Acquario (floor 1).

As part of the Resilience Course (Cross-course), this seminar will contribute to the course's total credits.

(Further updates on the official start of the Resilience course will be provided in the next weeks)

For further info, email giulia.leoni@unige.it

We are delighted to announce the successful conclusion of the second Annual Poster Session, kindly hosted by the Department of International and Political Sciences (DISPI) at the beautiful Albergo dei Poveri.

This event provided a vibrant platform for our students to showcase their research and engage in interdisciplinary exchanges. The session was further enriched by an insightful keynote speech from Prof. Roberto Baldoni of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN), alongside an engaging presentation by Nicole Brunetti. And at the close of the event, we enjoyed some networking opportunities over drinks, celebrating the far-reaching impact of our PhD community.

Thank you to everyone – students, faculty, and other members of the university community – who attended and contributed to the success of this event.

To view all the posters, names of the participants, and winners of the Best Poster Award, please visit this page.

We look forward to seeing you at our next event!

On July 20, a participatory planning meeting was held at Sanremo Casino. The meeting utilised fuzzy cognitive mapping to identify the most crucial urban functions for the post disaster recovery within Sanremo city as an area exposed to multi risk condition. Local stakeholders actively participated in this event, contributing to the PhD project of Soheil Mohammadi (PhD student in Security, Risk, and Vulnerability - RRENIB curriculum, XXXVII cycle).

On May, Silvia Pinasco (PhD student in Security, Risk, and Vulnerability - RRENIB curriculum, XXXVII cycle) went back from the first joint EUCENTRE-ReLUIS mission for post-earthquake damage assessment in Turkey. The mission took place in the areas devastated by the earthquake that occurred last February, with a magnitude of 7.8. An interview made by Ingegnio to Silvia is available here. 

On Feb 15, the students of the XXXVI and XXXVII cycles will present their research activity in a poster session. Pictures and the actual posters are available here.

The Female Analysis/Assessment Team of the Italian contingent in Libano contributes to UniGe research activity carried out by Cristina Fontanelli (PhD student of The PhD Program on Security, Risk and Vulnerability).

A report by Almalaurea evaluates the advantage offered by a PhD.

Cristina Fontanelli (PhD candidate in Security, Risk and Vulnerability) has been awarded the prize for the best paper in the top Security Studies conference in Europe (EISS). Congratulations Cristina!

Federica Bizio (Chief Data Scientist, Cybersecurity Division at aizoOn) presents the opportunity of carry out an industrial PhD at the University of Genoa in partnership with aizoOn. 

The Phd Program in Security, Risk and Vulnerability offers the opportunity to carry out your research program in collaboration with the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento.

Stella Blumfelde (PhD Student, XXXVI Cycle) presents the PhD Program in Security, Risk and Vulnerability at the Communication Festival in Camogli.