Over the years, and since its inception, the ROSE School has trained more than 600 hundred postgraduate students from all around the world, all of whom now hold prestigious roles in both academia and the industry sector. Their region of origin is indicated in chart below.
A few ROSE Alumni Success Stories
Damian Grant
ROSE Graduation year: 2004
Current position: Global Seismic Skills Leader Associate Director
Employer: Arup
The ROSE school MSc and PhD provided an intense period of earthquake engineering training from a diverse group of instructors. I still routinely use (more than 20 years later) the technical training I received. I also have an international network from my time at ROSE, including people I didn’t actually overlap with in Pavia.
Helen Crowley
ROSE Graduation year: 2005
Current position: Secretary General
Employer: Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation
I arrived in Pavia during the first year of the ROSE School in 2001, and I immediately understood the unique opportunity I was being exposed to – the possibility to be taught by the best academics in Earthquake Engineering in the world. They were certainly not easy years, with a steep learning curve, but they taught me that the results and success I obtained were directly correlated with the hard work and dedication that I put into my studies and work.
Didier Pettinga
ROSE Graduation year: 2007
Current position: Technical Director and Adjunct Professor
Employer: Holmes NZ and University of Canterbury
My four years of post-graduate study at ROSE set me up for a dynamic and stimulating career, both in-practice and in academic opportunities. The connections with fellow students and professors continue to be a source of both personal and professional inspiration.
Ana Beatriz Acevedo
ROSE Graduation year: 2008
Current position: Professor
Employer: EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia
Being at ROSE allowed me to have an excellent education in earthquake engineering. The possibility of studying with the best professors in the world was unique and is something I treasure. Also, having classmates from all over the world enriched my studies, as it gave me the possibility to open my mind in several aspects. Some of the Professors and classmates at ROSE have been or are currently my colleagues. The connections I made from the time at ROSE are invaluable, a situation that I did not anticipate when applying to ROSE.
João Pacheco de Almeida
ROSE Graduation year: 2009
Current position: Professor
Employer: Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
My PhD years at ROSE were a rich blend of cultural interactions with fellow students and experts from a wide range of international backgrounds. The convergence of such diverse experiences created a unique atmosphere and energy for intense study and research.
This time deeply shaped my path: it helped me understand that I would like to become a teacher, and it instilled the working habits and foundational knowledge that allowed me to embark on a more-or-less clumsy, yet rewarding, academic journey—which was followed by a postdoc at EPFL and continued over the past seven years as professor at UCLouvain.
