Title:

PhD, PEng

Name and Surname:

Svetlana Brzev

University:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Topic of the lecture:

Seismic Design and Construction of Reinforced Concrete Buildings – Lessons Learned from the 1979 Montenegro and the 2023 Turkiye Earthquakes

Short biography:

Prof. dr Svetlana Brzev has 40 years of international academic and consulting experience related to seismic analysis, design, and retrofitting of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and was previously a faculty at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. Dr. Brzev has been working as a consultant to the United Nations (World Bank) since the 1990s and is currently engaged in projects involving seismic retrofitting of schools in Central Asia. She serves on the Technical Committee responsible for the development of design standard for masonry buildings in Canada (CSA S304), and is a member of the Eurocode 8 Technical Committee 250/SC8/WG1 responsible for the development of design provisions for seismic design and retrofitting of masonry buildings. She was one of the leaders of the research team that developed the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). Dr. Brzev is a past Vice-President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and is currently a Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering. She has served as the President of Serbian Association for Earthquake Engineering (SUZI-SAEE) since its inception in 2018. Prof. Brzev has published more than 150 technical papers and has co-authored three textbooks related to design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures in Canada. In 2015, she was named a Fellow of the Engineers Canada for her contribution to the engineering profession in Canada.

Webpage:

https://civil.ubc.ca/svetlana-brzev/