Nicole Paul

Nicole Paul

PhD Candidate

DE|RISC Lab

Hi, I’m Nicole Paul! 👋

I’m currently researching household displacement due to disasters at University College London (UCL). My background is in structural engineering and I have over nine years of experience quantifying disaster risks. At the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, I conducted earthquake risk assessment at the national and regional scales. At Arup, I was focused on the campus and building-specific scales, with an emphasis on modeling recovery after disasters.

Experience

  • Global Earthquake Model, 2019-2023
  • Pavia, Italy

  • Arup, Risk and Resilience, 2014-2019
  • San Francisco, CA, USA

Education

  • MSc Structural Engineering, 2015
  • Stanford University

  • BSc Civil Engineering, 2013
  • University of California, Berkeley

Other publications

Probabilistic seismic risk assessment of Africa. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 119, 2025.
Calibrating collapse and fatality rates for the assessment of fatalities due to earthquakes. Earthquake Spectra, 2025.
Global building exposure model for earthquake risk assessment. Earthquake Spectra, 39(4), 2023.
Benchmarking housing damage as a driver of population displacement following earthquakes. In SECED 2023, 2023.
Updates to GEM's Global Seismic Risk Model. In 12NCEE, 2022.