Sonia Giovinazzi is an Adjunct Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome since 2016 and a researcher at ENEA, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. In 2019, she was granted the qualification of Associate Professor in Civil Engineering by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Sonia’s expertise and research interests focus on risk mitigation and management and post-disaster resilient recovery for infrastructure systems and communities. Following the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, in New Zealand, Sonia had extensive on-the-ground experience in supporting the disaster response. She is currently leading the work package Impact & Risk Assessment for the European funded project ARCH, “Advancing Resilience of Historic Areas against Climate-related and other hazards”. Previously, Sonia was the Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury, where she worked from 2007 to 2016.