Dr. Abbas Mirfattah received his MSc and PhD in Earthquake Engineering from EUCENTRE/ROSE School, Italy. He has been involved in a multi-national European project REAKT that aims to assess seismic risk in critical European infrastructures. Seismic analysis and computer modelling has been the core of his research work. Abbas also has more than 10 years of work experience as structural consulting engineer. He has been using CSI software specially ETABS as the main tool for seismic design. Abbas has been residing in New Zealand for the past four years and is very passionate about educating engineers in seismic design.
