Dr. Bocchini Research Group
Dr. Paolo Bocchini is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. His research group focuses on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure Systems, Catastrophe Modeling, Probabilistic Analysis applied to Civil Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.
News and Events
May 2023
The work of the team on 3D printing concrete is celebrated through a special exhibit at the National Museum of Industrial History. Read more and see pictures.
May 2023
Dr. Mohanad Khazaali is officially hooded as a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering. Dr. Khazaali is now a working as a catastrophe modeler at Verisk - Extreme Event Solutions, one of the leading CatModeling firms in the world. Congratulations Mohanad!!!
April 2023
Dr. Bocchini participates as keynote speaker at the Resilience Colloquium organized by Geisinger.
April 2023
Revamped website for the Catastrophe Modeling Center, and new social media presence on YouTube, Linkedin, Twitter, and Mastodon.
April 2023
Resolve magazine celebrates the interdisciplinary work done by the team. Read the article.
March 2023
After 2 years of "quiet phase," the Catastrophe Modeling Center celebrates its public launch with a workshop in New Your City. Read more.
March 2023
News story to accompany Xinyue Wang's paper on wildfire risk. Read the story and the paper.
March 2023
Dr. Bocchini receives the mentor appreciation certificate from Lehigh's Graduate Student Senate for the 6th year in a row.
March 2023
According to the new rankings of the NYT, if the main criterion is earnings 10 years after graduation (NYT says that this is the most important criterion for most students), some weight is given to the social life ("party scene") and the campus is required to be in a city, Lehigh is in the top 5 universities in the US. Setting all the weight only on earnings and requiring that the school has a focus on STEM, is in a city, and admits more than 25% of the applicants, Lehigh is #1.
February 2023
The Catastrophe Modeling Center staff is growing. Dr. Sushreyo Misra will join the center in a few weeks as Research Scientist. Chao Sheng will join the center in the summer as Postdoctoral Research Associate.
November 2022
News article on the new grant received from the National Science Foundation. $1 million for a phase one effort. The thrust led by Dr. Bocchini focuses on the application of the CatModeling framework to epidemic risk assessment, focusing on underserved and isolated communities. Learn more about the project.
Active Research Topics
Catastrophe modeling
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Regional Hazard Analysis by Functional Quantization
Non-homogeneous virus spreading and risk
CatModeling of communication infrastructure
3D printing concrete
Life-cycle finite element analysis
Selected Publications
Fiorillo, Bocchini, Buceta
A predictive spatial distribution framework for filovirus-infected fruit bats
Ma, Bocchini, Christou
Fragility models of electrical conductors in power transmission networks subjected to hurricanes
Sun, Bocchini, Davison
Resilience metrics and measurement methods for transportation infrastructure: The state of the art
Christou et al.
Effective sampling of spatially correlated intensity maps using Hazard Quantization: application to seismic events
Bocchini, Deodatis
Critical review and latest developments of a class of simulation algorithms for strongly non-Gaussian random fields
Miranda, Bocchini