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Professor Edoardo Patelli

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Personal statement

I am a professor in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification and the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Infrastructure at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am working in a multidisciplinary environment in collaboration with members from all the university faculties and strong links with world-leading scholars. I am the Chair of the Technical Committee on Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), Chair of the Technical Committee for the 2019 and 2022 European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), Member of the Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences (part of the Bernoulli Society), Academic Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and member of the UK Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIRAB). My current research interests are in:

  • Nuclear safety
  • Efficient and readable numerical methods for uncertainty quantification
  • Resilience Engineering for critical infrastructure
  • Digital twin and efficient simulation methods capable of managing and quantifying uncertainty
  • Developing Trustful AI and Learning Algorithms for Imprecise and Bad Data
  • On-line monitoring tools for nuclear systems, Civil infrastructure and aerospace
  • Human reliability analysis and interaction with autonomous systems
  • Risk communication

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
17/6/2025
Recipient
1/9/2022

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Publications

, Morais Caroline,
Reliability Engineering and System Safety Vol 264 (2025)
, Estrada-Lugo Hector Diego, Ferson Scott,
Digitalisation and Digital Transformation Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 113–118 (2025)
MacDonald E, ,
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment Vol 39, pp. 2789-2816 (2025)
Filippi Gianluca, Basu Tathagata, , ,
Advances in Reliability, Safety and Security European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 133-134 (2025)
, Moura Raphael,
Proceedings of the 35th European Safety and Reliability Conference & 33rd Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference 35th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 33rd Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference, pp. 2060-2067 (2025)
Rocchetta Roberto, Nespoli Lorenzo, Medici Vasco, Chen Yu, , ,
35th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 33rd Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference (2025)

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Teaching

I am currently teaching:

  • Probability and statistics
  • Structural reliability 
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • Bayesian approaches 
  • FMEA, Fault Tree, Event Tree 
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Research Interests

My primary research interests focus on the general area of risk analysis, uncertainty modelling and quantification, sensitivity analysis, nuclear safety, reliability and availability of complex systems. In particular,  the focus is on the development of verified and efficient stochastic computational methods able to model different representation of the uncertainty and providing trustful reliability analysis and risk assessment.
The numerical implementations have resulted in the development of an open-source general-purpose software package for uncertainty quantification and stochastic analysis.

Professional Activities

Participant
7/2/2025
Participant
30/1/2025
Peer reviewer
1/8/2024
Host
1/1/2024
Associate Editor
30/6/2023
Keynote/plenary speaker
14/6/2023

Projects

Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Hamilton, Andrea (Co-investigator) Vinitha Jose, Jittu (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator)
Student - Innes O'Donnell
01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) De Angelis, Marco (Co-investigator) Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Hamed (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Sentenac, Phillippe (Co-investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
Walls, Lesley (Principal Investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) White, Chris (Co-investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) Strens, Fiona (Co-investigator) Anderson, Heather (Administrator)
The ReDI (Resilience in Digitalising Infrastructure) SCDT aims to produce ‘new resilience thinkers’ – not just in the graduates we deliver but also in the building of a whole community including staff from partner and stakeholder organisations and academics working in relevant fields.
ReDI will innovate in how the doctoral-level studentships are delivered, aligning ambitions between industry and academics, borrowing from the cohort approach proposed in the original EPSRC CDT and making the most of the freedoms implicit in an independently funding model. Our Industry partners and co-funders are keen to support this programme which aligns with their ambitions, including:
•Partners should together shape high level ‘challenge themes’ to reflect real world context;
•The themes should drive a co-creation process for PhD project definition involving partners, academics and students;
•‘Resilience Foundations’ training upfront should provide students with a shared, baseline understanding of key risk and resilience topics;
•Partners should be engaged with the whole student cohort (although individual students may be industry co-supervised and take on placements);
•A programme of activities should be supported to bring together partner staff with academics, students and other stakeholders to develop shared knowledge and build a community.

Financial summary:

University SCDT funds: £180,000
External funds: £490,000 (³Ô¹Ïtv share of £980,000 from industry & NPL)
Total ³Ô¹Ïtv project value: £670,000
01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2028
Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Chen, Yu (Research Co-investigator)
31-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator)
15-Jan-2024 - 14-Jan-2025

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Contact

Professor Edoardo Patelli
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Email: edoardo.patelli@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4682