Svetlana Brzev
Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Svetlana Brzev is a structural engineer with more than 30 years of international academic and consulting experience related to earthquake engineering, with significant involvement in Serbia and Canada. Dr. Brzev holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil/Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and a Ph.D. degree in Earthquake Engineering from the Department of Earthquake Engineering, University of Roorkee, India. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2017-present), and was previously a faculty at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Canada. Before joining academia in 2000, she was a Senior Engineer at Sandwell Engineering in Vancouver, Canada (1995-1999), where she was working on projects involving seismic retrofitting of structures in Canada and other countries. Dr. Brzev has strong interest in developing and promoting improved construction technologies for seismically active regions of the world. She was founding Chair of the World Housing Encyclopedia project sponsored by the EERI and IAEE from 2000-2005. Since 2008 she has been chairing the EERI-sponsored Confined Masonry Network, and has been actively involved in promoting confined masonry in India. From 2010-2013 Svetlana was a part of the research team which developed the Global Earthquake Model. She served as Vice President and a member of the EERI’s Board of Directors (2001-2003) and is currently a Director of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). She is founding president of the Serbian Association for Earthquake Engineering (SUZI-SAEE) and has been involved in raising the level of earthquake engineering in Serbia since its inception in 2018. She has published more than 150 papers and reports and has co-authored three books related to design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures.
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