Italian scientist
Ruggiero Lovreglio (know also as Professor Rino) is an Italian academic. He is an associate professor at Massey University (New Zealand)[1] and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand).[2] His research is focused on large-scale and small-scale evacuation dynamics and safety training using emerging technologies, such as virtual reality and augmented reality.[3][4]
Biography
Lovreglio obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato, Polytechnic University of Bari, Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University of Turin in 2016.[5] He investigated how people make evacuation decisions in evacuation building fires.[6] He was a Research Fellow from 2016 to 2018 at the University of Auckland and then at National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) to study human behavior in earthquakes and wildfires.[5][7] In 2018, he joined Massey University. where he established the Digital Built Environment Lab, focusing on the use of digital technologies for enhanced safety of the built environments.[5][8]
Career
Lovreglio is an associate professor at Massey University (New Zealand) and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand). He is an associate editor for Safety Science (Elsevier)[9] and Fire Technology (Springer).[10] He is a member of the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal (Elsevier).[11] Lovreglio has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific works[12] and he has been leading several research projects related to evacuation and safety training including a Marsden project funded by Royal Society Te Apārangi.[13][14] He is also representing New Zealand in the ISO Fire Safety Engineering working group: ISO/TC92/SC4/WG11.[13] During his career, he has been a guest researcher and lecturer at Tsinghua University, NIST, Lund University, ETH Zurich, University of Canterbury, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Edinburgh Napier University.[15]
