About
Dr Matthew Mason
Dr Mason began at The University of Queensland in late 2014 after holding academic positions at The University of Sydney and QUT. Prior to joining UQ he also worked as a catastrophe risk researcher for the industry-focused research centre, Risk Frontiers at Macquarie University. Matthew’s key areas of interest and expertise lie in the fields of:
- Wind Engineering
- Stochastic modelling of hazards, including convective storms and tropical cyclones
- Probabilistic modelling of structural vulnerability to wind, water and hail
- Catastrophe loss modelling for natural hazards
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of the atmosphere
- Wind tunnel testing and analysis
Project leadership
Realistic disaster scenarios help emergency managers better understand disasters. They allow for visualisation of potential impacts before disasters happen, and enable proactive planning for these events. This project developed realistic disaster scenarios using catastrophic loss models so that vulnerable areas, utilities and assets within our major cities can be identified.
Supervisory roles
Project | Student |
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Analysis and simulation of surface wind fields during landfalling tropical cyclones | tkloetzke |