Roberto Gentile is a Lecturer in Catastrophe Risk Modelling at the UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Risk Reduction and co-Director of the DE|RISC Lab (Disaster Engineering for Resilient Societies). His research advances risk modelling, emphasizing on physical vulnerability models, multi-hazard vulnerability, lifecycle loss assessments, combination of hazard insurance and structural retrofit under humanitarian constraints. He leads the Risk Agreement work package in the Tomorrow’s Cities Urban Risk Hub. He joined UCL as Research Associate and subsequently as a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow.