Micaela Demichela

Micaela Demichela is a Full Professor in the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) at the Polytechnic University of Turin, where she conducts research and teaches in the fields of process safety, risk management, and occupational safety. She is a member of the Interdepartmental Center R3C – Responsible Risk Resilience Center and the Master's and Continuing Education School. She also serves as vice-coordinator of the MISO (Occupational Safety Engineering) Master's program at the Polytechnic University of Milan and is actively involved in the Doctoral College in Chemical Engineering and Metrology at Politecnico di Torino.

Her research interests include process safety, probabilistic risk assessment, safety in the workplace, human and organizational factors in risk analysis, and resilience in industrial systems. She integrates chemical engineering principles with safety science to evaluate the safety status of production lines by combining kinetic and heat transfer data with plant characteristics. Her work spans both fine and basic chemicals sectors and extends to petrochemical industries and international research centers.

The recent publications highlight a strong trend toward integrating data-driven methodologies, human factors, and advanced technologies such as human-robot collaboration, Bayesian networks, and prognostics and health management (PHM) to enhance safety and resilience in process industries. Her work increasingly focuses on cyber threats, energy resilience, and decision-making frameworks for industrial safety.

• Fellow, 3ASI - Association of Environmental, Reliability and Industrial Safety Analysts (2013–2015)
• President, ESReDA - European Safety, Reliability and Data Association (2012–2014)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries (2007–)
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering (2019–)

She has supervised numerous PhD students and leads multiple research projects, including ND - Resilience against Cyber Threats, CISC - Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical Systems, and several Erasmus+ initiatives such as SAFETY4VET and RE@WBC. She teaches courses such as 'Risk Assessment as Decision Making Tools', 'Advanced Technologies for Risk-Based Decision Making', and 'Occupational Safety Engineering' across various engineering programs. She leads the SAfeR research group and the Applied Biotechnology team at DISAT, and is involved in laboratories including the Biotechnological Laboratory.