Rafael Ramirez Eudave

I am a Postdoc researcher at the Land Change Science group of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research since February 2024. I obtained a degree as an Architect in 2015 (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and was part of the Erasmus ELARCH (Euro-Latin American Partnership in Natural Risk Mitigation and Protection of the Cultural Heritage) program. I hold an MSc degree in Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (University of Minho, Portugal, 2017) and Heritage and Project (University of Basilicata, Italy, 2018). My PhD Thesis (supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) analysed the damages and losses in the aftermath of the 2017 Earthquakes in Mexico for proposing a vulnerability assessment framework combining simplified parametric models for masonry structures, Geographic Information System databases, and Machine-Learning algorithms to improve analytical models.