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transportation modelling, pedestrian modelling, evacuation modelling, serious game
New Zealand

Biography

I am an Associate Professor in Digital Construction and Fire Engineering at Massey University (NZ) and a Rutherford Discovery Fellow for Royal Society Te Apārangi (NZ).

I am the recipient of the 2022 5 under 35 SFPE and I was award the 2020 Massey Research Medal - Early Career and the 2020 College of Science Research Award - Early Career. I represent New Zealand in the ISO working group in Fire Safety Engineering (ISO/TC92/SC4/WG11).

​My research and teaching include:

- Building Information Modelling;
- Decision-Making Modelling;
- Evacuation Modelling and Pedestrian Dynamics;
- Human Behavior in Fire, Wildfire and Earthquake;
- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (Oculus, VIVE, Unity);
- Data Collection and Data Analysis (R, MATLAB, SPSS, Biogeme, Stan);
- Discrete Choice Analysis (Biogeme, Nlogit);
- Applied statistics for Image Analysis;

Activities

Employment (4)

Massey University: Auckland, NZ

2018-02 to present | Associate Professor (School of Built Environment )
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

NIST: Gaithersburg, MD, US

2017-11 to 2018-02 | Guest Researcher (Fire Research Division)
Employment
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

University of Auckland: Auckland, NZ

2016-04-13 to 2017-10 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Employment
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Politecnico di Bari: Bari, Puglia, IT

2013-01-01 to 2016-04-04 | PhD Candidate (DICATECh)
Employment
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Education and qualifications (4)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

2016-06-06 to 2016-06-11 | Professional Education on Discrete Choice Analysis
Education
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Politecnico of Bari, Milan and Turin: Turin, Piemonte, IT

2013-01-01 to 2016-04-04 | PhD (Environmental and Territorial Safety and Control)
Education
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Politecnico di Bari: Bari, Puglia, IT

2010-10-01 to 2012-10-01 | MSc
Education
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Politecnico di Bari: Bari, Puglia, IT

2007-10-01 to 2010-10-01 | BSc
Education
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Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Funding (7)

Identification and implementation of fundamental crowd behavioural rules

2023 to 2028 | Contract
Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (Wellington, NZ)
PROPOSAL_ID:

RDF-22-MAU-004

GRANT_NUMBER:

RDF-MAU2201

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Royal Society Te Apārangi

How much do they recall? Measuring the effect of safety training on human memory

2023 to 2026 | Contract
Marsden Fund (Wellington, NZ)
PROPOSAL_ID:

MFP-22-MAU-006

GRANT_NUMBER:

MFP-MAU2204

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Royal Society Te Apārangi

Scholarship for MIT Professional Education

2016-06 to 2016-06 | Grant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Safety of underground infrastructures during evacuations

2014-08 to 2014-12 | Grant
C.M Lerici (Stockholm, SE)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Interpolitecnica Scholarship

2014-05 to 2015-12 | Grant
Politecnico di Milano Torino and Bari (Turin, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

PhD Scholarship

2013-01 to 2015-12 | Grant
Politecnico di Bari (Bari, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Scholarship by ADISU Puglia

2007 to 2012 | Award
ADISU Puglia (Bari, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ruggiero (Rino) Lovreglio

Peer review (13 reviews for 7 publications/grants)

Review activity for Automation in construction. (5)
Review activity for Fire safety journal. (1)
Review activity for Fire technology. (2)
Review activity for International journal of disaster risk reduction. (2)
Review activity for Physica. (1)
Review activity for Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives. (1)
Review activity for Transportation research. (1)