Associate Specialist
Office: Davis Hall 409
Email: g.banushi ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu
Gersena Banushi is a research specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. Banushi earned her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy and the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany in 2016. She has extensive experience in research, structural and geotechnical analysis of energy infrastructure, using analytical and advanced numerical methods resulting in development of innovative solutions, published in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests are in mathematical modelling and simulation of infrastructure systems under environmental hazards, reliability analysis, optimization, renewable energy, and infrastructure sensing technology.