Edoardo Patelli
Lecturer in Uncertainty and Engineering
Biography
Dr Edoardo Patelli is a member of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty and the Centre for Engineering Sustainability at the University of Liverpool. He graduated in "Nuclear Engineering" at the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy) in 1999. Later, he worked as an assistant researcher in the group of Professor Marzio Marseguerra and Enrico Zio at the same Institute. He then carried out his doctoral work in "Radiation Science and Technology" at the Polytechnic of Milan. In 2006 he moved as research associate at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) in the group of Professor Schuëller where he became the group leader in 2009. Starting form September 2011 he is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool.
Dr. Patelli's primary research interests focus on the general area of risk analysis, uncertainty modelling and quantification, sensitivity analysis, optimization, reliability and availability of complex systems. His current activities deal with issues of the interface between theoretical basic research, application oriented developments and numerical implementations. In the area of basic research, the focus is on the development of advanced stochastic computational methods for uncertainty quanti fications and generalised probabilistic methods, reliability analysis and risk assessment and management. The developed procedures have been applied in di fferent areas of safety and risk analysis in civil engineering as well as in nuclear engineering and aerospace. The numerical implementations have been resulted in the development of a general purpose software package for uncertainty quantifi cation and stochastic analysis (COSSAN-X).
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy cum laude in "Radiation Science and Technology" (05/2006)
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, EU
Thesis title: “Monte Carlo Simulation of Radioactive contaminant transport in groundwater
Supervisor: E.Zio, M.Marseguerra, F.Giacobbo - "Laurea magistrale in ingegneria" (MSc level) (12/1999) Specialization: "Instrumentation and Control of Nuclear Power Plants"
Politecnico di Milano, Italy, EU
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Thesis title: “Development of a non-linear stochastic model for the simulation of the transport of contaminants in groundwater in presence of colloids: quantitative analysis Monte Carlo
Supervisor: M.Marseguerra, E.Zio
Professional Activities
Professional Societies
- Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Editorships / Editorial Boards
- Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Springer)
- Special Issue: "Robust Engineering solution with environmental loading" - International Journal of Reliability and Safety
- Special Issue: "Engineering Analyses with vague and imprecise information" - Structural Safety
Organization of Conferences / Workshops:
- 37th Bayerisch-Tirolerisches Mechanik-Kolloquium (BTMK).
Innsbruck July 3-4, 2009 with Prof. Schuëller - Mini-symposium on “Uncertainty, Reliability and Risk in Engineering”, 6th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2012)
September 17-19, 2012, Marburg, Germany - Mini-symposium on "Risk Assessment and Quantification in Engineering: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective", 4th International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (COMPDYN 2013) Kos Island, Greece, June 12 – June 14, 2013.
- Mini-symposium on "Engaging with risk and uncertainty: robust engineering solutions", 11th International Conference On Structural Safety And Reliability, June 16 – 20, 2013, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Mini-symposium on "Structural Reliability Applications to PHM", Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM2013), 8-11 September 2013, Milan Italy - with André T. Beck
- Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) & Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014), 13th - 16th July 2014, University of Liverpool
- Mini-symposium on "Conceptual Comparison of Bayesian Approaches and Imprecise Probabilities", 12th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (CST2014), Napels (Italy), September 2-5, 2014
- Mini-symposium on "Numerical analysis and design for advanced engineering solutions", 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 20-25, 2014 Barcelona (Spain)
- 13th International Probabilistic Workshop, 2015 University of Liverpool
Reviewer for:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A
- Computational Materials Science
- Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
- Decision Support Systems
- Journal of Risk and Reliability
- Journal of Applied Geophysics
- External reviewer for PhD candidates (Polytechnic of Milan)
Teaching Areas
- Nuclear Engineering
- Applied Monte Carlo Simulation Techniques
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Risk and reliability/availability analysis
Research Interest
- Reliability, Risk and Hazard Analysis
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Monte Carlo methods
- Imprecise Probability
- Sensitivity analysis
- Optimization, Robust Design and Reliability based optimization
- Nuclear Energy and Safety
Selected Publications
- Edoardo Patelli, H. Murat Panayirci, Matteo Broggi, Barbara Goller, Pierre Beaurepaire, Helmut J. Pradlwarter, Gerhart I. Schuëller, General purpose software for efficient uncertainty management of large finite element models, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Volume 51, April 2012, Pages 31-48.
Full-paper HTML DOI - Edoardo Patelli and Gerhart I. Schuëller Computational optimization strategies for the simulation of random media and components Computational Optimization and Applications 2012
Full-paper HTML DOI - E. Patelli, H. J. Pradlwarter, and G. I. Schuëller. Global sensitivity of structural variability by random sampling. Computer Physics Communications, 181:2072{2081, 2010.
Full-paper HTML DOI - E. Patelli, H.J. Pradlwarter, and G.I. Schuëller. On multinormal integrals by importance sampling for parallel system reliability. Structural Safety, 33:1{7, 2011.
Full-paper HTML DOI - Francesca Giacobbo and Edoardo Patelli. Monte carlo simulation of radionuclides transport through fractured media. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 35(9):1732{1740, September 2008.
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