Dr. Gersena Banushi
Associate Specialist
Email: g ’dot’ banushi ’at’ berkeley ’dot’ edu
Office: Davis 409
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, and structural and geotechnical analysis of energy infrastructure, using analytical and advanced numerical methods resulting in the development of innovative solutions, published in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests are in mathematical modeling and simulation of infrastructure systems under environmental hazards, reliability analysis, optimization, renewable energy, and infrastructure sensing technology.