Tayo Opabola, PhD
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
I am an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Before joining University of California, Berkeley, I was a Senior Research Fellow in Resilience Engineering in the Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering Department at University College London, UK. I was also a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I received my PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I earned my B.E. (Civil and Industrial Engineering) and M.S. (Structural Engineering) from the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia.
Research Interests
My research combines Structural Engineering, Reliability Theory, Statistics, and Hazard Science to solve complex engineering problems affecting civil infrastructure systems. I have extensive experience in large-scale field and laboratory testing of structural components and systems, nonlinear analysis of structures, vulnerability and fragility modeling, multihazard interaction simulation, and building-level and community-level resilience quantification. My research focuses on both developed and developing countries.
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News
08 May 24: Our paper on Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control is published in Earthquake Spectra. Co-authors: Ken Elwood (University of Auckland, New Zealand).
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11 Apr 24: Tayo Opabola receives the 2023 Shah Family Innovation Prize at the 2024 EERI Annual Meeting in Seattle, USA.
30 Jan 24: Tayo Opabola has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) Tier 1 Young Professional Grant to participate in the 2024 SEI Congress.
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23 Jan 24: Our paper on a Bayesian approach for estimating the post-earthquake recovery trajectories of electric power systems in Japan is published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. Co-authors: Yuki Handa and Carmine Galasso (both from University College London, UK).
Publications
Opabola E.A, and Galasso C., (2024) Informing disaster-risk management policies for education infrastructure using scenario-based recovery analyses in Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42407-y
Opabola E.A, and Galasso, C. (2024) A probabilistic framework for post-disaster recovery modelling of buildings and utility using stochastic network analysis in Reliability Engineering & System Safety https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2023.109679
Opabola E.A, Abdullah S., Elwood, K.J., Wallace, J (2023) Limit states for post-earthquake assessment and recovery analysis of ductile concrete buildings in Earthquake Spectra https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930231170024