Program

Conference Week Overview

Plenary Sessions

Opening session: Breakthroughs in Research

In this session some experienced scientists will tell us about breakthroughs in their research – how did it happen? What was the problem, and what were the novel features and ideas? Where did the new insights come from?  How important were discussions with other scientists?  

Speakers: Terje Aven, Gudela Grote, Enrico Zio   

Monday 16 June 09:00 – 10:15


The Role of Risk Science in the New Geopolitical Security Landscape: Geopolitical tensions, Hybrid threats, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyond

We are living in an era defined by rapid technological advancement, shifting power dynamics, and heightened global tensions. The convergence of artificial intelligence, terrorism, hybrid threats, and geopolitical tensions has created unprecedented challenges, and opportunities, for practitioners, decision-makers and researchers alike.

This panel will discuss how these risks reshape the new era of risk and security and will investigate the role of risk science in this new era. Topics to be addressed include: Will security as a new framework condition for risk and safety challenge existing tools and frameworks to anticipate, evaluate, and mitigate emerging risks?  How can risk science illuminate pathways to resilience and stability in this new era? 

Panelists: Sissel Haugdal Jore (Chair/moderator), Rasmus Dahlberg, Susanne Therese Hansen, Genserik Reniers

Monday 16 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session   


Risk assessment for the future: challenges and directions for the research

The aim of risk assessment is to improve our understanding of risk and, in this way, support related decision-making. The panel will discuss to what extent current frameworks, thinking and methods are suitable for meeting the challenges of the future, characterized by many and rapid changes, large uncertainties, digitalization, increased level of system complexities, access to ‘big data’, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence. We question: Are the traditional risk assessment approaches obsolete? What topics should risk assessment research and development now give priority to?

Panelists: Seth Guikema (Chair/moderator). Francesco Di Maio, Roger Flage, Floris Goerlandt, Myrto Konstantinidou and Lesley Walls

Tuesday 17 June 09:00 – 10:15

Morning session   


Communicating risk and uncertainty:  How can risk science help?

Communicating risk is not a simple task in practice.  A balance has to be made between concentration on policy implementation for the sake of obtaining efficient risk handling, and scientifically and truthfully representing and conveying what the current knowledge is. The panel will discuss how risk science can support the risk communication. Topics to be addressed include:  how to deal with uncertainties, the challenge of misinformation, and the interrelationship between science and politics. 

Panelists:  Frederic Bouder (Chair/moderator), Terje Aven, Ragnar Löfstedt,  Magda Osman, Henrik Tehler and Robyn Wilson

Tuesday 17 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session 


Reliability analysis in the future: challenges and directions for the research

The panel will address current issues of reliability analysis and its projection to the future, ranging from high-level reflections on reliability as a scientific field and its practice, to specific topics related to new models and innovative methods for studying the highly integrated and complex systems of today’s industry, in light of digitalization, IoT, Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Questions that naturally arise regard: what are the development trends seen and needed to meet current and future challenges? What are the most important research questions to ask and what type of methodologies and tools need to be developed to enhance the field and provide adequate decision support?  

Panelists: Enrico Zio (Chair/moderator), John Andrews, Piero Baraldi, Olga Fink and Christophe Berenguer

Wednesday 18 June 09:00 – 10:15

Morning session 


Challenges related to the gap between theory and practice in the risk and safety field

It can be argued that there is a considerable gap between theory and practice in the risk and safety field. For example, practitioners still use traditional risk matrices despite strong theoretical knowledge expressing that it could seriously misrepresent risk and misguide decision-makers. Another example is that safety culture is often in practice treated as a property of individuals, and seen as separate from the organizations’ other functions, even though studies show the importance of understanding it as an organizational level phenomenon and in relation to various organizational functions. Yet another example is the common practice of separation between the management of safety and security risks, despite theoretical knowledge showing strong necessities and benefits of an integrated perspective. The panel will discuss why we have this gap, why it is important to seek to close it, and how this can be achieved. Is the gap mainly a knowledge transfer problem, or is the issue more about fundamental differences in mindsets and sensemaking, and generic factors that resist change? The perspectives discussed include academia, regulators and industry.

Panelists: Marja Ylönen (Chair/moderator), Kenneth Gould Pettersen, Jan Hayes, Luca Podofillini, Teemu Reiman

Wednesday 18 June 13.00 – 14:15

After lunch session 


What have we learned? The future of risk & safety science

In this session the speakers will provide some reflections about current topics of the risk and safety field, highlighting both theory and practice, in view of the conference presentations and discussions. What have we learned about concepts, theories and methods, and the use of these to enhance our understanding and make better decisions? The speakers will point to specific issues and insights that they consider important for the future of the risk and safety field. 

Speakers: Marja Ylönen, Enrico Zio and Sandra Alday  

Thursday 19 June 14.30-16.00

Closing session


Plenary Speakers

  • Enrico Zio

    Enrico Zio

    Enrico Zio received the MSc degree in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1991 and in mechanical engineering from […]

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  • Gudela Grote

    Gudela Grote

    Gudela Grote is a Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at ETH Zürich. She received her doctorate at the Georgia […]

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  • Terje Aven

    Terje Aven

    Terje Aven has been a Professor in Risk Science at the University of Stavanger, Norway since 1992. Previously he was […]

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  • Robyn Wilson

    Robyn Wilson

    Robyn Wilson, Ph.D., professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Dr. Wilson is […]

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  • Ragnar Lofstedt

    Ragnar Lofstedt

    Ragnar Lofstedt PhD is a Professor of Risk Management at King’s College London, a position that he has held since […]

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  • Magda Osman

    Magda Osman

    Magda Osman is Head of Research and Analysis, Centre for Science and Policy. She is a cognitive psychologist by training, and […]

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  • Teemu Reiman

    Teemu Reiman

    Teemu Reiman has a doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Helsinki, and a title of Associate Professor from […]

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  • Henrik Tehler

    Henrik Tehler

    Since 2015, Henrik Tehler has been serving as a Professor at the Division for Risk Management and Societal Safety at […]

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  • Seth Guikema

    Seth Guikema

    Seth Guikema is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering […]

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  • Floris Goerlandt

    Floris Goerlandt

    Floris Goerlandt is Associate Professor in Dalhousie University, Canada, where he holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Risk […]

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  • Piero Baraldi

    Piero Baraldi

    Piero Baraldi received the MSc and the PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2002 and 2006, […]

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  • Olga Fink

    Olga Fink

    Olga Fink is an assistant professor leading the Laboratory of Intelligent Maintenance and Operations Systems at EPFL since March 2022. […]

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  • Jan Hayes

    Jan Hayes

    Jan Hayes PhD is a Professor of Organizational Accident Prevention at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a sociologist with […]

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  • Myrto Konstantinidou

    Myrto Konstantinidou

    Myrto Konstantinidou is a Chemical Engineer with a double degree from National Technical University of Athens and Politecnico di Milano, […]

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  • Lesley Walls

    Lesley Walls

    Lesley Walls Ph.D., Professor, Department of Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland – Lesley is a Professor and Chartered […]

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  • Marja Ylönen

    Marja Ylönen

    Marja Ylönen is Doctor of Social Sciences and working currently as Associate Professor in Risk Management and Societal Safety at […]

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  • Luca Podofillini

    Luca Podofillini

    Luca Podofillini is a senior scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute of Switzerland. He has a Nuclear Engineering degree and […]

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  • Genserik Reniers

    Genserik Reniers

    Genserik Reniers, a Master of Science in chemical engineering and PhD in Applied Economic Sciences, is Full Professor at the Safety […]

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  • Sissel Haugdal Jore

    Sissel Haugdal Jore

    Sissel Haugdal Jore is a Professor in Risk Management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. Her […]

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  • Susanne Therese Hansen

    Susanne Therese Hansen

    Susanne Therese Hansen is a Senior Researcher at the research institute NTNU Social Research in Trondheim, Norway. She holds a […]

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  • Rasmus Dahlberg

    Rasmus Dahlberg

    Rasmus Dahlberg is currently on leave from his position as Associate Professor at the Institute for Strategy and War Studies […]

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  • Roger Flage

    Roger Flage

    Roger Flage is a Professor of Risk Analysis at the University of Stavanger, with several years of prior experience as […]

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  • Francesco Di Maio

    Francesco Di Maio

    Francesco Di Maio received the M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering in 2006 from Politecnico di Milano and a Double EU-China PhD […]

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  • John Andrews

    John Andrews

    Professor John Andrews: is in the Resilience Engineering Research Group, at the University of Nottingham where he was appointed to a […]

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  • Frederic Bouder

    Frederic Bouder

    Frederic Bouder is Professor in Risk Management at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He is a recognised expert in risk […]

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  • Sandra Alday

    Sandra Alday

    Sandra Alday is Program Manager of the Master of Management at the University of Sydney Business School. Extending her experience […]

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  • Christophe Berenguer

    Christophe Berenguer

    Christophe Berenguer is Full Professor in Reliability and Maintenance, Systems Monitoring and Control Systems at GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, […]

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Panels, Roundtables, Special Sessions & Workshops

PANEL: Sustainability risk management: How can CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive be integrated in “business as usual” risk management? (Proactima)

Panelists:  Sandra Seno-Alday. Hermann Steen Wiencke. Lars Bjarne Røvang, Konstantina Karatzoudi

Chair: Richard Heyerdahl


PANEL: The Future of Risk Research: Early Career Researcher perspectives

Organizer:  George Warren and Sarah Duckett

Contact: George Warren [email protected]


PANEL: Risk and responsibility: What can we learn from managing COVID-19?

Organizer: RESECTOR project group

Contact:  Rasmus Dahlberg [email protected]


PANEL: Safety, Reliability, and Security(SRS) of Autonomous Systems

Organizer: The International Workshop on Autonomous System Safety (IWASS)

Contact: Grimstad, Joachim [email protected]


ROUNDTABLE: The Ethics of Strategic Risk Communication

Panelists: Dominic Balog-Way, Ann Bostrom, Frederic Bouder, Rui Gaspar, Katherine McComas and Magda Osman

Chair: Ragnar Löfstedt


ROUNDTABLE: PHM in Transportation: comparison between air and ground transportation. Possible synergies?

Organizers: Pierre Dersin & Olga Fink

Contact: Pierre Dersin [email protected]


ROUNDTABLE: Linking Risk and Sustainability through Decision Science

Organizers: Sandra Alday and Anca Hanea

Contact:  Anca Hanea [email protected]


ROUNDTABLE: Joining Forces for Risk Communication

Organizers:  Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk (IPUR), National University of Singapore (Singapore), the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (Cambridge, UK) and Sense About Science (London, UK). 

Olivia Jensen, Lara Mani, and Tracey Brown

Contact: Olivia Jensen [email protected]


ROUNDTABLE: The Social Amplification of Risk Framework: Contemporary significance and Needs for the Future

Organizers:  Lisbet Fjæran and Angela Bearth

Contact: Lisbet Fjæran, [email protected]


ROUNDTABLE: Revisiting the foundations of safety science in a world of change – interdisciplinary, basic and applied all at once?

Participants: Jan Hayes, Jean Cristophe LeCoze, Nick Pidgeon and Teemu Reiman

Chair: Kenneth Pettersen Gould  [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Reliability, Risk and Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems

Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Yiping Fang and Enrico Zio

Contact:  Francesco Di Maio [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Impacts on Critical Infrastructure Risk and Resilience  

Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Masoud Naseri and Enrico ZIo

Contact: Masoud Naseri [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Resilience of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) to security attacks 

Organizers: Francesco Di Maio, Greta Nasi, Wei Wang and Enrico Zio

Contact: Francesco Di Maio [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Modelling, and Advanced Simulation for the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Systems

Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Francesco Di Maio, Nicola Pedroni and Enrico Zio

Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Data-driven Predictive Maintenance- – from sensor measurements to diagnostics/prognostics to maintenance planning

Organizers: Zhiguo Zeng, David Coit, and Mihaela Mitici

Contact: Mitici, M.A. (Mihaela) [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Human- Machine Interaction in Industry 4.0: Ergonomics, Security, and Regulatory Challenges

Organizers: Mario Di Nardo, Maria Chiara Leva and Luigi Monica

Contact: Mario Di Nardo [email protected] 


SPECIAL SESSION: Challenges and Advancements Towards Trustful Digital Twins: Uncertainty, Automation, and AI

Organizers: Edoardo Patelli, Massimiliano Vasile, Marco de Angelis, Scott Ferson and Yu Chen

Contact: Yu Chen [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Recent Advancements in Expert Judgment

Organizers: Tina Nane and Anca Hanea

Contact: Tina Nane [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Safety, Reliability, and Security (SRS) of Autonomous Systems

Organizer: The International Workshop on Autonomous System Safety (IWASS)

Contact: Joachim Grimstad [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Test Planning and Design for Lifetime Testing in Reliability Engineering

Contact: Martin Dazer [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Climate Risk Governance in the Arctic

Contact: Bjørn Ivar Kruke [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Safety and Health in the Offshore Wind Industry

Contact: Tone Njølstad Slotsvik [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Incremental Rollout of New Technologies in Railway Systems Engineering

Organizers: Arne Lamm, Astrid Rakow and Eike Moehlmann

Contact: Arne Lamm [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Balancing Complexity and Efficiency: Optimal Model Resolution and Network Granularity in Risk Analysis

Organizers: Alessandro Contento, Paolo Gardoni

Contact: Alessandro Contento [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Bayesian Networks Modelling for Reliability and Risk Assessment

Organizers: Michael Beer, Matteo Broggi, Francesco Di Maio,  Enrico Zio

Contact: Francesco Di Maio [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Domain Adaptation Methods for Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) and Predictive Maintenance

Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Piero Baraldi, Olga Fink and Enrico Zio

Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for RAMS

Organizers: Ibrahim Ahmed, Piero Baraldi and Enrico Zio

Contact: Ibrahim Ahmed [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Anticipatory Behavior for Safety in Human-Autonomous Agent Interactions

Contact: Prosper Ameh Kwei-Narh [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Advances in Well Engineering Reliability, Integrity and Risk Management

Organizers: Márcio das Chagas Moura, Isis Didier Lins, Manoel Feliciano Silva, Danilo Colombo

Contact: Marcio Jose Das Chagas Moura [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Risk Analysis and Safety in Machinery

Organizer: Luca Landi, Roberto Gabbrielli, Heinrich Moedden, Fabio Pera

Contact: Luca Landi [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Methodology, tools, and software for dealing with imprecision in risk analysis

Organizers: Matthias Faes, Marcos Valdebenito, Jingwen Song, Pengfei Wei, Steffen Freitag, Edoardo Patelli, Michael Beer, Matteo Broggi, Yu Chen

Contact: Edoardo Patelli [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Natural Language Processing for RAMS applications

Organizers: Piero Baraldi, July Bias Macedo, Marcio Jose das Chagas Moura, Dario Valcamonico and Enrico Zio

Contact: Dario Valcamonico [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Infrastructure and Community Resilience: Preparation, Absorption, Response, and Recovery

Organizers: Omar Kammouh, Nazli Aydin

Contact: Omar Kammouh [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Reinforcement learning for RAMS

Organizers: Adam Abdin, Piero Baraldi, Michele Compare, Luca Pinciroli and Enrico ZIo

Contact: Luca Pinciroli [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAM) Application

Organizers:  Joaquín Figueroa, Piero Baraldi and Enrico Zio

Contact: Joaquín Eduardo Figueroa Barraza [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Professional Practice for Improved Safety Decision Making

Organizers: Jan Hayes and Kenneth Pettersen Gould

Contact: Jan Hayes [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Impact Assessment in Resilience Analysis of Energy Systems 

Organizers: Luca Podofillini and Matteo Spada

Contact: Spada Matteo (spaa) [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Adapting to Extreme Risks: Safety Strategies for Space and Aviation

Organizers:  Mario P. Brito and Stanislav Bukhman

Contact: Mario Brito [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Quantum Methods in Risk and Reliability

Organizers: Enrique López Droguett, Márcio Moura and Isis Didier Lins

Contact: Isis Didier Lins [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Underground hydrogen storage: Understanding risks and ensuring safe and sustainable operations

Organizers: Nadezhda Gotcheva and Hanna Koskinen

Contact: Gotcheva Nadezhda [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Case Studies on Predictive Reliability: an Industrial Perspective

Organizers: Marco Bonato, Alexander Mueller and François Masse

Contact: Marco BONATO [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Hybrid Threats and Risk Governance Between Safety and Security 

Organizers: NTNU Social Research, University of Stavanger and SINTEF Digital

Contact: Susanne Therese Hansen [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Collaborative Intelligence and Safety Critical Systems Applications

Organizers: Maria Chiara Leva, Ammar Abbas, Hector Diego Estrada Lugo, John D. Kelleher, Micaela Demichela, Anders Madsen Hugin, Gabriele Giannini, Philip Long and Marko Djapan

Contact: Maria Chiara Leva [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: Exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI in managing Major Accident Hazards in high-risk environments

Organizers:  Petter Johnsen,  Sahar Snell  and Navin Isaiah

Contact:  Sahar Snell  [email protected]


SPECIAL SESSION: The NASA and DNV Challenge on Optimization Under Uncertainty

Organizers:  DNV Group Research and Development: Christian Agrell, Vegard Flovik, Erik Vanem

NASA Langley Research Center: Luis G. Crespo, Sean Kenny

Contact: Christian Agrell  [email protected]



WORKSHOP: International Workshop on Energy Transition to Net Zero: Reliability, Risk, and Resilience (ETZE R3)

Organizer: The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. Samueli School of Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Contact: Tarannom Parhizkar [email protected]


Social Program

Conference dinner at Sola Beach Hotel

Wednesday 18th June 18:30 – 23:30

Includes 3 course dinner, 3 units of wine/beer, entertainment

Organized trip to Preikestolen

Sunday 15th June 7:45 AM – 4:00 PM

Join us on a hike to one of Norway’s most iconic landmarks, Preikestolen (Pulpit Rock). The marked trail will take us through diverse nature and landscapes, and includes several sections of natural stone stairways. The hike covers 4 km with a 330-meter elevation gain, leading up to the breathtaking viewpoint of Lysefjorden and its surrounding mountains 604 meters above the fjord. The hike typically takes between 2 and 3 hours, excluding breaks.

Departure from the University of Stavanger at 08:00. Return to the University at 4 PM.

Further details, including logistics and what to bring, will be provided closer to the event. For any questions, please contact [email protected]

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