Ruggiero Lovreglio
Italian scientist
Ruggiero Lovreglio (known also as Professor Rino ) is an Italian academic based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is an associate professor at Massey University (New Zealand)[ 1] and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand).[ 2] His research is focused on large-scale and small-scale evacuation dynamics and safety training using emerging technologies, such as virtual reality and augmented reality .[ 3] [ 4]
Early life and education
Lovreglio lived in Barletta (Apuglia , Italy) most of his life before moving overseas. He is from a farming family which did not stop him from pursuing his interest in science and technology . He studied high school at Liceo Scientifico Carlo Cafiero , achieving a final grade of 100/100. He studied civil engineering for his bachelor's degree at Polytechnic University of Bari , graduating in 2010 cum laude. He pursued his master's studies in the same university, graduating in 2012 cum laude.[ 5]
Lovreglio obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato, Polytechnic University of Bari , Polytechnic University of Milan , Polytechnic University of Turin in 2016.[ 6] He investigated how people make evacuation decisions while evacuating building fires.[ 7] He was a Research Fellow from 2016 to 2018 at the University of Auckland and then at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) to study human behavior in earthquakes and wildfires.[ 6] [ 8]
Career
In 2018, he joined Massey University, where he established the Digital Built Environment Lab, focusing on the use of digital technologies for enhanced safety of built environments.[ 6] [ 9] Lovreglio is an associate professor at Massey University (New Zealand) and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand). He is an associate editor for Safety Science (Elsevier )[ 10] and Fire Technology (Springer ).[ 11] He is a member of the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal (Elsevier ) and Virtual Reality (Springer ).[ 12] [ 13] Lovreglio has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific works[ 14] and he has led several research projects related to evacuation and safety training including a Marsden project funded by the Royal Society Te Apārangi .[ 15] [ 16] He represents New Zealand in the ISO Fire Safety Engineering working group: ISO/TC92/SC4/WG11.[ 15] During his career, he has been a guest researcher and lecturer at Tsinghua University , NIST , Lund University , ETH Zurich , University of Canterbury , Università Politecnica delle Marche , Edinburgh Napier University .[ 17] [citation needed ]
Selected awards
2023 - Top 2% world's ranking of scientists in 2023, Stanford/Elsevier [ 18]
2022 - 5 under 35 SFPE Award[ 19]
2020 - Massey Research Medal (Early Career) - Massey University[ 20]
2018 - Jack Watts Award - Fire Technology - Springer[ 21]
Selected works
Haghani, M., & Lovreglio, R. (2022). Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes. Science , 378 (6624), 1060-1061.[ 22]
Lovreglio, R., Dillies, E., Kuligowski, E., Rahouti, A., & Haghani, M. (2022). Exit choice in built environment evacuation combining immersive virtual reality and discrete choice modelling. Automation in Construction , 141 , 104452.[ 23]
Lovreglio, R., Gonzalez, V., Feng, Z., Amor, R., Spearpoint, M., Thomas, J., ... & Sacks, R. (2018). Prototyping virtual reality serious games for building earthquake preparedness: The Auckland City Hospital case study. Advanced Engineering Informatics , 38 , 670-682.[ 24]
References
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^ "Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Stuff" . www.stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Using VR to improve fire evacuation understanding" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio - Royal Society Te Apārangi | LinkedIn" . nz.linkedin.com . Retrieved 2024-02-22 .
^ a b c "Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ ResearchGate. "PhD thesis - Lovreglio Ruggiero" .
^ "Publications" . NIST .
^ "People | Digital Tech Cluster" . Sbe Digital Lab . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Ruggiero Lovreglio - Editorial Board - Safety Science - Journal - Elsevier" . www.journals.elsevier.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Fire Technology" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Editorial board - Fire Safety Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier" . www.sciencedirect.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Virtual Reality" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
^ "Scopus preview - Lovreglio, Ruggiero - Author details - Scopus" . www.scopus.com . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
^ a b "ORCID" . orcid.org . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
^ "Marsden Fund awards 2022" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
^ "Curriculum Vitae" . Professor Rino . Retrieved 2024-01-24 .
^ Ioannidis, John P. A. (2023-10-04). "Bibliometrics" . October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" . Vol. 6. Elsevier Data Repository. doi :10.17632/btchxktzyw.6 .
^ "Award for Chapter Excellence (ACE)" . www.sfpe.org . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Staff celebrated at teaching and research awards" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ "Fire Technology" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ Haghani, Milad; Lovreglio, Ruggiero (2022-12-09). "Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes" . Science . 378 (6624): 1060–1061. Bibcode :2022Sci...378.1060H . doi :10.1126/science.adf5949 . ISSN 0036-8075 . PMID 36480619 . S2CID 254485601 .
^ Lovreglio, Ruggiero; Dillies, Elise; Kuligowski, Erica; Rahouti, Anass; Haghani, Milad (2022-09-01). "Exit choice in built environment evacuation combining immersive virtual reality and discrete choice modelling" . Automation in Construction . 141 : 104452. doi :10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104452 . ISSN 0926-5805 . S2CID 239616175 .
^ Lovreglio, Ruggiero; Gonzalez, Vicente; Feng, Zhenan; Amor, Robert; Spearpoint, Michael; Thomas, Jared; Trotter, Margaret; Sacks, Rafael (2018-10-01). "Prototyping virtual reality serious games for building earthquake preparedness: The Auckland City Hospital case study" . Advanced Engineering Informatics . 38 : 670–682. arXiv :1802.09119 . doi :10.1016/j.aei.2018.08.018 . ISSN 1474-0346 . S2CID 3517873 .