2025 ASSISi
GLOBAL DESIGN & INNOVATION AWARDS
recognizing excellence in seismic protective systems design and innovation worldwide
2025 ASSISi Global Design & Innovation Awards Jury
For this year’s awards program, ASSISi has convened a peerless international panel of experts, with decades of experience in the research, development and application of seismic protective technologies.

Andrew Charleson
formerly Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Victoria University
Wellington, New Zealand

Mustafa Erdik
formerly Professor, Boğaziçi University
Istanbul, Turkiye
Founding Honorary Member, Turkish Association for Seismic Isolation

Nagahide Kani
formerly Executive Director, Japan Society for Seismic Isolation
Tokyo, Japan

Alessandro Martelli
formerly ENEA Research Director
Bologna, Italy
ASSISi Founding President

Mason Walters
Senior Principal
Forell Elsesser
San Francisco, California, USA

Fu Lin Zhou
Professor, Guangzhou University, Chinese Academy of Engineering
ASSISi Past President
Jurors are recused from judging any projects in which they are involved.