Meet the NORTH Team

Key expertise:

• Climate adaptation of built environment
• Policy advice on risk management
• Disaster risk management
• Reliability, robustness and safety of structures
• Life safety risk management
• Bayesian decision and VoI analysis
• Natural hazards risk modeling and management
• Resilience and sustainability of systems
• Global catastrophic risks 

Key expertise:

• Classification systems, knowledge representation, taxonomies,  ontologies, learning design
• Identification and analysis of causal interdependencies between engineered and social-ecological systems
• Cognitive and behavioral aspects in descriptive and normative decision analysis
• Risk governance and regulation
• Natural hazards and disaster risk management
• The Arctic space

Key expertise:

• Risk analysis: risk management, risk assessment and risk communication. Risk analysis for products and process.
• Probabilistic modelling of systems
• Earthquake engineering and vulnerability assessment of buildings
• Risk-based inspection and operation of offshore wind turbines
• Risk-based inspection of oil & gas installations
• Probabilistic agent-based modelling for occupancy and non-occupancy behavior in public and private spaces
• Structural reliability

Key expertise:

• Probabilistic modeling and analysis of load environments, structures, infrastructures, and equity portfolios
• Bayesian/frequentist approaches in statistics, extreme value analysis, Value of Information analysis and decision analysis
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Monte Carlo simulation techniques
• Local and global optimization and sensitivity techniques
• Reliability, risk, and resilience modeling for engineered systems
• Damage detection, and structural health monitoring

Key expertise:

• Techniques for accelerated probabilistic analysis of complex structural systems
• Reliability-based optimization
• Mechanical modeling techniques
• Advanced Monte Carlo Simulation techniques

Key expertise:

• Risk-based design optimization of e.g., wind farm electrical systems
•  Resilience management of infrastructure systems e.g., offshore wind farm systems
•  Probabilistic modeling of interdependent infrastructure systems e.g., wind farm systems, electrical networks and transportation systems
•  Hurricane/typhoon risk assessment of offshore wind turbine systems