Edoardo Patelli

Professor Edoardo Patelli is a distinguished academic specializing in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification at the University of Strathclyde's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. He serves as the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Infrastructure and maintains strong collaborations across all university faculties with world-leading scholars globally.

His research interests span multiple critical areas including Nuclear Safety, Resilience Engineering for critical infrastructure, Digital Twin technology, and development of Trustful AI algorithms for imprecise data. He has pioneered efficient simulation methods capable of managing and quantifying uncertainty across various systems including nuclear facilities, civil infrastructure, and aerospace applications. His work also encompasses human reliability analysis in interaction with autonomous systems and effective risk communication strategies.

Prof. Patelli's publication portfolio demonstrates a strong focus on applying uncertainty quantification methods to real-world problems, with recent work addressing storm surge forecasting, drone logistics for healthcare, fuel supply chain resilience during floods, procedure quality enhancement, and structural damage identification. His research consistently bridges theoretical advances in computational methods with practical applications in safety-critical systems.

• The NASA and DNV Challenge on Optimization under Uncertainty Recipient (17/6/2025)
• Best Paper Award in "Innovation in Smart Cities and Systems" Recipient (1/9/2022)

As an academic leader, Prof. Patelli chairs multiple significant committees including the Technical Committee on Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), and has served as Chair of the Technical Committee for the 2019 and 2022 European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL). He is also a 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). His professional activities include serving as Associate Editor for Frontiers Nuclear Engineering journal and participating in EPSRC workshops.

He leads and contributes to numerous research projects including the Intelligent Digital Twin management platform for natural-technological disasters, improved models for flood impact on transport infrastructure, Care & Equity - Logistics UAS Scotland Phase 3, and Enhanced Methodologies for Advanced Nuclear System Safety, demonstrating his commitment to addressing complex infrastructure challenges through innovative computational approaches.