Ezio Faccioli, Ph. D. in Civil Engineering (University of Illinois), is Full Professor of Earthquake Engineering at the Technical University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), Italy. He is currently one of the Directors of the International Association of Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) and Coordinating Editor of the Journal of Seismology.
Since 1990, he has been overall co-ordinator or team leader in several European Commission  research projects on seismic risk, soil-structure interaction and geotechnical earthquake engineering,  and convenor of the panel charged with drafting of Part 5 of Eurocode 8 (Design of structures for earthquake resistance), now a European Norm. In Italy, he was  member of the group charged by Italian Government of drafting the new seismic code issued in 2003, and is currently coordinator of a research project that will produce seismic hazard maps of Italy in terms of long period spectral displacement.

He published over 30 international journal articles and co-authored a few books, both in English and Italian, dealing with seismic wave propagation, site effects, and the geotechnical and soil dynamics aspects of Earthquake Engineering. He has earned from the US Earthquake Engineering Research Institute the Outstanding Earthquake Spectra Paper Award of 2004.