Angela Fiamingo is a research fellow in geotechnical engineering at the University of Catania (Italy). She obtained an international PhD in “Evaluation and Mitigation of Urban and Land Risks”, curriculum structural and geotechnical engineering, at the University of Catania. She spent a research period at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). Her research studies cover Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction effects and Geotechnical Seismic Isolation systems using soil-rubber mixtures.