{"id":230,"date":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato-new\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:02:42","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Education<\/h3>\n
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  • Ph.D.<\/u><\/strong>, Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2007<\/li>\n
  • M.S.<\/u><\/strong>, Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2005<\/li>\n
  • \u201cLaurea\u201d Degree<\/span><\/strong>, Civil Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 2002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Appointments<\/h3>\n
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    • President<\/u>, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), October 2025 \u2013 present <\/li>
    • Executive Committee Member<\/b>, UC Disaster Resilience Network, November 2024 \u2013 present <\/li>\n
    • Adjunct Research Scientist<\/b>, John Hopkins University\/NIST, May 2024 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    • Director<\/b><\/u>, UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center, September 2023 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    • Director<\/u>, CITRIS Climate Initiative, CITRIS and The Banatao Institute, October 2021 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    • Co-Director\/Co-founder<\/u>, UC Davis Climate Adaptation Research Center, September 2019 \u2013 August 2023<\/li>\n
    • Professor<\/u><\/strong>, University of California Davis, July 2018 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
    • Associate Professor<\/u><\/strong>, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, August 2013 \u2013 August 2018<\/li>\n
    • Assistant Professor<\/u><\/strong>, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, October 2007 \u2013 August 2013<\/li>\n
    • Research Assistant<\/u><\/strong>, University of California at San Diego, April 2002 \u2013 September 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Awards<\/h3>\n
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      • 2025     <\/b>Icons of Change International Award \u2013 Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities <\/li>\n
      • 2024     <\/b>Public Scholarship Faculty Fellow.<\/li>\n
      • 2024     <\/b>Best Young Researcher Paper Award \u2013 Women in Engineering for the 18th International Brick & Block Masonry Conference (IB2MaC).<\/li>\n
      • 2023     <\/b>ASCE Sacramento Section Jonathon Burdette Education Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2023<\/span>    <\/span> UC Davis Chancellor\u2019s Innovator of the Year Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2023    <\/span> Environmental Faculty Fellow of the UC Davis Institute of the Environment.<\/li>\n
      • 2022    <\/span> Best Paper Award for Research on Engineering Structures and Materials (RESM).<\/li>\n
      • 2022    <\/span> Journal of Composites for Construction Editor’s Choice (June issue).<\/li>\n
      • 2022    <\/span> Nominee for the UC Davis Chancellor’s Innovation Awards – Innovators of the Year.<\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2022    <\/span> UC Davis Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2022    <\/span> UC Davis Staff Assembly and Academic Affairs Citation of Excellence 2021-2022 – Faculty & Staff Partnership Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2021    <\/span> Journal of Bridge Engineering Editor’s Choice (December issue).<\/li>\n
      • 2021     UC Davis Faculty Fellow for the Academy of Graduate Student Well-Being (inaugural cohort).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
      • 2021     <\/strong>ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for Journal of Composites for Construction. <\/li>\n
      • 2021     <\/strong>Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).<\/li>\n
      • 2021     <\/span>Eminent Engineer, Tau Beta Pi, CA-Lambda Chapter.<\/li>\n
      • 2020     <\/strong>EMI Service Award, Distinguished service as Chair of the Dynamics Committee.<\/li>\n
      • 2020     <\/span>ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering.<\/li>\n
      • 2020     <\/strong>ASCE Sacramento Section Fredrick Panhost Structural Engineer Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2020     <\/strong>ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for Natural Hazards Review (ASCE).<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>UC Davis ACCELERATE Fellowship.<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>EMI Service Award, Chair of the 2018 Dynamics Committee Student Paper Competition.<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI).<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI).<\/li>\n
      • 2019     <\/strong>EMI Delegate to Regions 8 and 9 Multi-Region Leadership Conference (MRLC).<\/li>\n
      • 2018    <\/strong> AISC Advancing Structural Steel Education Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> LSU Service award for “10 years of dedicated commitment and loyal service”.<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> LSU College of Engineering Longwell Award for Instructor Excellence.<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> Outstanding Reviewer for Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Elsevier).<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> Outstanding Reviewer for Reliability Engineering and System Safety (Elsevier).<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> Outstanding Reviewer for Structural Safety (Elsevier).<\/li>\n
      • 2017    <\/strong> Outstanding Reviewer for Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier).<\/li>\n
      • 2016    <\/strong> Outstanding Reviewer for Engineering Structures (Elsevier).<\/li>\n
      • 2016    <\/strong> Highly Cited Paper recognition, Structural Safety, Elsevier.<\/li>\n
      • 2012    <\/strong> Best Paper Award for Young Experts for the 12th International Symposium on Structural Engineering (ISSE-12).<\/li>\n
      • 2012    <\/strong> ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of Structural Engineering.<\/li>\n
      • 2012    <\/strong> LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2011    <\/strong> ASCE Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of Structural Engineering.<\/li>\n
      • 2011    <\/strong> Junior Research Prize in the area of Development of Methodologies for Structural Dynamics, European Association for Structural Dynamics (EASD).<\/li>\n
      • 2009    <\/strong> ASCE Moisseiff Award.<\/li>\n
      • 2007    <\/strong> Outstanding Alumni 2007, Department of Structural Engineering, UC San Diego.<\/li>\n
      • 2007    <\/strong> ICASP10 Overseas Student Scholarship.<\/li>\n
      • 1995-2000<\/strong>        \u201cFederazione Nazionale dei Cavalieri del Lavoro\u201d Fellowship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Professional Licenses<\/h3>\n
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        • Professional Board of Engineers of Isernia (Italy), License # 371, 2002 \u2013 present<\/li>\n
        • Professional Engineer in Civil Engineering, Louisiana, License # 38978, 2014 \u2013 present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Professional Memberships<\/h3>\n
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          • AEI Member<\/li>\n
          • EMI Charter Member (Fellow)<\/li>\n
          • SEI Member (Fellow)<\/li>\n
          • AISC Educator Member<\/li>\n
          • ASCE Member (Fellow)<\/li>\n
          • Engineers Without Borders (EWB-USA) Member<\/li>\n
          • IALCCE Member<\/li>\n
          • IABMAS Member<\/li>\n
          • CERRA Member<\/li>\n
          • ACI Member<\/li>\n
          • IAWF Member<\/li>\n
          • ASME Member<\/li>\n
          • AAAS Member<\/li>\n
          • Tau Beta Pi, CA-Lambda Chapter, Eminent Engineer Member<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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            Biography Education Ph.D., Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2007 M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California San Diego, 2005 \u201cLaurea\u201d Degree, Civil Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 2002   Appointments President, Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), October 2025 \u2013 present  Executive Committee Member, UC Disaster Resilience Network, November 2024 \u2013 present  Adjunct Research Scientist, John Hopkins University\/NIST, May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/barbato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}