Maria Todorovska, Research Professor
Dr. Maria Todorovska
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Contact information
Dr. Maria Todorovska
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of southern California
3620 S. Vermont Avenue, KAP 216A
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531
Tel: (213) 740-0616
Fax: (213) 744-1426
E-mail: mtodorov@usc.edu
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Research interests
- Interdisciplinary research synthesizing knowledge and technology from different branches of engineering, earth sciences, mathematics and social sciences, and aiming to solving advanced problems in earthquake engineering and engineering mechanics.
- Structural health monitoring
- Wavelets
- Soil-structure interaction and full-scale testing of structures
- Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, mapping and zoning
- Strong ground motion
- Seismic monitoring arrays, instrumentation, data processing and databases
- Near-source tsunami modelling
- Wave propagation in structures, soils and sedimentary deposits
- Assessment of damage and losses from earthquakes
- Passive isolation and control of structural response
- Specification of earthquake resistant design criteria for structures
New Research
- Damage detection and structural health monitoring.
- Organization and mining of large data sets of earthquake records.
- Innovations in seismic monitoring and full-scale testing of structures, including introduction of new sensors, wireless sensor networking, and real time data transmission.
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Biographical information
Ph.D. – 1988 – Civil Engineering – University of Southern California
M.S. – 1988 – Applied Mathematics – University of Southern California
M.S. – 1985 – Civil Engineering – University of Southern California
B.S. – 1982 – Physics – University St. Cyrie and Methodius, Skopj, Macedonia
M.S. – 2001 – Electrical Engineering – University of Southern California
