Itsaso Arrayago is an Assistant Professor and Serra Húnter Fellow at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. She is a civil and structural engineer and earned her PhD in Construction Engineering in 2016. She has collaborated with different international research groups, including research stages at the University of Sydney (2015-2016, 2019-2021) and the Imperial College in London (2018).
Former MSCA fellow, she is currently working on the development of system-based direct design methods for steel and stainless steel structures based on system reliability for the Eurocode and US design frameworks, which will forge the new generation of design specifications. Her skills span across the areas of system reliability, performance of steel structures under accidental actions (fire and seismic events), advanced finite element analysis, material characterization of metallic materials, planning and execution of complex experimental programmes and development of design recommendations for international
structural codes.
She is member of the Working Groups for “EN 1993-1-14: Design assisted by finite element analysis” and “EN 1993-1-4: Stainless steel structures”, and has actively contributed to the development of several design standards for stainless steel structures, including EN 1993-1-4, ASCE 8 and the Design Manual for Structural Stainless Steel.
She has co-supervised PhD and Master students and co-managed several European and national research projects. She also has inter-sectorial experience in bridge engineering.