Dr. Frank Lombardo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Extreme Wind Resilience Center. Dr. Lombardo specializes in wind engineering, where he focuses on characterization of extreme winds such as tornadoes and thunderstorms and the associated loading and damage they cause to the built and natural environment. He also serves on professional committees related to windstorms including the ASCE Wind Load Subcommittee (WLSC). He serves as vice-chair of the tornado task committee of the WLSC, which has developed tornado loading provisions for inclusion in ASCE 7.

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