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Details for Professor Willy Aspinall
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Willy Aspinall |
| Job title | Cabot Professor in Natural Hazards and Risk Science |
| Department | School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | BSc, PhD(Durham), CSci, CGeol |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Seismological Society of America American Geophysical Union Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics International Association for Volcanology & Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior |
| Keywords | expert judgment expert elicitation facilitation natural hazards earthquakes volcanoes risk assessment Cabot Institute |
| Areas of expertise | My principal research interests are in volcanology and seismology, with professional interests in the formalised use of expert judgement in decision-making for low probability / high consequence events in circumstances of scientific or engineering uncertainty, and the assessment of earthquake and volcanic hazards and risks for safety-critical facilities. |