Dr. Flavia De Luca is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Bristol. She joined the University of Bristol in September 2014, with expertise within the field of structural and earthquake engineering, with particular attention to Reinforced Concrete frame structures. She is author of numerous publication on high impact international journals and she took part as presenter to different international conferences. Dr De Luca got her PhD in Seismic Risk at University of Naples Federico II with the thesis Records, capacity curve fits and reinforced concrete damage states within a Performance Based Earthquake Engineering Framework on 18th January 2012. She continued her research as post doctoral fellow at the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture of University of Naples Federico II, from February 2012 to August 2014. Her PhD and post doctoral research experience was immediately characterised by multiple collaborations with different researchers at University of Naples and from other relevant institutions in Europe; other than working with her PhD supervisor Prof. Gaetano Manfredi, she also collaborated, during her PhD, with Dr. Iunio Iervolino (Univ. of Naples), Dr. Dimitrios Vamvatsikos (Univ. of Cyprus), Prof Edoardo Cosenza (Univ. of Naples), Dr. Francesca Pacor (INGV Milan) and Dr. Gabriele Ameri (INGV Milan), and Dr. Gerardo Verderame, who became her postdoctoral supervisor. During the PhD program, Dr. De Luca worked as a visiting PhD student at the University of Cyprus for six months (January - June 2010), collaborating with Dr. Dimitrios Vamvatsikos. This collaboration resulted in a paper on the accuracy of piecewise linear fits for nonlinear static analyses in the high impact journal Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. She collaborated with Dr. Francesca Pacor and Dr. Gabriele Ameri, seismologist from the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Milan, within the RELUIS research programme in cooperation with Italian National Civil Protection. This collaboration resulted in different conference and journal publications. She was selected finalist for the prize Associazione per la Geofisica Licio Cernobori-AGLC 2011, as leading author of the paper Prediction equations of nonlinear SDOF response: towards an enhancement of hazard analysis (De Luca F, Iervolino I, Ameri G, Pacor F, Bindi D.), presented at GNGTS 2011 National Conference and resulted from the collaboration with INGV seismologists. Right after the discussion of her PhD thesis, Dr. De Luca was invited speaker for the Colloquia on Recent Advances in Applied Mechanics and Strength of Materials, at University of Innsbruck, in March 2012 (seminar title: Hazard analysis and ground motion: PSHA and record selection issues). In July 2013, Dr. De Luca's expertise on seismic performances of Reinforced Concrete structures resulted in the invitation as principal contributor to the chapter Seismic Vulnerability Assessment for RC Structures in the Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (edited by Michael Beer, Edoardo Patelli, Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou and Siu-Kui Au, Springer). In spring 2014, she began a collaboration with Iavarone Legnami s.p.a. (http://www.iavaronelegnami.it) and Wooden Roof (http://www.woodenroof.com), as expert in seismic response of structures. This experience resulted in Dr. De Luca new interest on timber structures. During the research experience in Italy, from 2008 to 2014, Dr. De Luca took part to post-earthquake in-field campaigns as shown by part of her publications. The observation of the different (social and structural) impact of earthquakes in regions of Europe (i.e., Italy and Spain), and the comparison of different social and economic contexts subjected to disastrous events in Italy (L'Aquila 2009 versus Emilia 2012) are the background and the starting point of recent commitment and study of Dr. De Luca on interdisciplinary works between social science and natural hazard engineering.