Ruggiero Lovreglio, PhD

A little about myself

I hold a PhD from Scuola Interpolitecnica di Dottorato, Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino (Italy). My studies embed Human Behaviour in Fire and Evacuation Modelling. During my PhD, I have investigated evacuee decision-making by using discrete choice modelling. This goal was achieved by analysing data from stated preferences (i.e. Virtual Reality Experiments) and revealed preferences (i.e. Real and Virtual Reality Experiments).

I have published several papers on Evacuation Modelling, Human Behavior in Disasters (e.g. fires, bush-fires, earthquakes), Serious Games and Virtual Reality as you can see on my Publications page. At the moment I am also reviewer for many International Journals in different fields, such as fire, safety and simulation research, applied mathematics and transportation modelling (e.g. please visit my Reviewer page for a comprehensive list). My publications are the result of collaborations with several universities, institutions and companies.

I am a Virtual Reality and Serious Game software developer and I have programming skills using MATLAB, R, C#, VB.NET (have a look at some application in the Gallery page). I also develop websites and on-line applications and questionnaires using PHP, JavaScript (Ajax) and SQL (see my Programming pages). I have also experience as webmaster.

If you are interested in programming for engineering solutions and you want to share information on modelling, do not hesitate to contact me at lovreglio.ruggiero@gmail.com or r.lovreglio@massey.ac.nz.