Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators for seismic resilient structures with SUSTainable Solutions

As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Università di Napoli “Federico II” (February 2024–March 2025), I have led the FREISUST project, overseeing the design and execution of a comprehensive experimental campaign to assess the seismic isolation performance of low-cost UFEI devices. My responsibilities included developing test protocols, coordinating the fabrication and instrumentation of full-scale isolator specimens with virgin and recycled rubber cores, and analysing mechanical and hysteretic response data under simulated earthquake loading. This work was carried out in partnership with European research groups at UNINA, University of California, Berkeley, National Technical University of Athens, ETH Zurich, and others, and was funded by the Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies programme .