Claudia Fecarotti

Claudia Fecarotti is an Assistant Professor in Resilient Asset Management and Maintenance at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, since January 2019. She is affiliated with the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control Group (OPAC) within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, as well as EAISI and the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering. Prior to TU/e, she was a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham's Resilience Engineering Research Group (RERG), where she earned her PhD in Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Asset Management in 2018.

• Education:
• BSc in Civil Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy
• MSc in Transportation Systems and Infrastructures, University of Palermo, Italy
• PhD in Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure Asset Management, University of Nottingham, UK

Her research focuses on reliability engineering, maintenance modeling and optimization, and infrastructure asset management. She develops methodologies for planning, operating, and maintaining complex safety-critical systems (railways, fuel cells, offshore oil/gas, agricultural robots) to enhance performance and reduce costs. Her work bridges academic rigor with industrial relevance.

Recent research trends include condition-based maintenance for multi-component systems, intervention planning for interconnected infrastructures, and digital tools for railway and modular construction systems. Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals for resilient infrastructure and sustainable cities.

• Scientific Awards:
• IMechE’s Best Young Researcher Award 2013
• IMechE’s Donald Julius Groen Prize 2017

She is actively involved in projects like Modular prefabricated construction (2024–2027) and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Infrastructure Systems (ASCE). Her expertise spans Petri nets, fault tolerance, and systems performance optimization.