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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
^ New Zealand, Massey University.
"Associate Professor Ruggiero Lovreglio - Associate Professor in Building Technology - Massey University" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Stuff" . www.stuff.co.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Using VR to improve fire evacuation understanding" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio - Royal Society Te Apārangi | LinkedIn" . nz.linkedin.com . Retrieved 2024-02-22 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
^ ResearchGate.
"PhD thesis - Lovreglio Ruggiero" .
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"Publications" . NIST .
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"People | Digital Tech Cluster" . Sbe Digital Lab . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ruggiero Lovreglio - Editorial Board - Safety Science - Journal - Elsevier" . www.journals.elsevier.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Fire Technology" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Editorial board - Fire Safety Journal | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier" . www.sciencedirect.com . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Virtual Reality" . SpringerLink . Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
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"Scopus preview - Lovreglio, Ruggiero - Author details - Scopus" . www.scopus.com . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"ORCID" . orcid.org . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"Marsden Fund awards 2022" . Royal Society Te Apārangi . Retrieved 2024-01-19 .
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"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 .
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"Award for Chapter Excellence (ACE)" . www.sfpe.org . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Staff celebrated at teaching and research awards" . www.massey.ac.nz . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"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 .