- KTA - Reliability Modelling to Support New Product Development in Defence Electronics Manufacturing (Principal investigator)
- New mathematical tools for modelling uncertainties in offshore turbine operation and maintenance (Principal investigator)
- SYSTEM RISKS IN INFORMATION-RICH ENVIRONMENTS: MONITORING FOR SAFE AND COST-EFFECTIVE OPERATION (BRIDGING THE GAP) (Principal investigator)
- Sandpit - Rethinking Human Reliability Analysis Methodologies (Principal investigator)
- COUPLED MODELS: EXPERT JUDGEMENT, EMULATORS AND MODEL UNCERTAINTY (Principal investigator)
- Enabling Contract for Provison of Research and Development in the use of Expert Judgement in Safety (and Reliability and Maintainability) Cases (Co-investigator)
- Dependent competing risks in reliability and maintainability assessment (Principal investigator)
Associate Deputy Principal for Knowledge Exchange and Research Enhancement
Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis
Tim Bedford studied mathematics at Warwick University where he obtained BSc, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. He holds an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his work in risk analysis, from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, and has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s National Academy. He held a fellowship at King's College Cambridge where he was a member of the King's College Research Centre project on Chaotic Dynamics. He then took a lectureship in applied probability at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and later became Senior Lecturer in Applications of Decision Theory in the same department. Current research interests are in probabilistic risk analysis, uncertainty modelling and decision analysis.
Tim is or has been active in various professional societies, amongst others the European Safety and Reliability Association and the Dutch Reliability Society, of which he was Chairman. He is currently the Chair of the Committee of Professors of Operational Research, the network of UK OR Professors and is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Safety Reliability and Data Association ESReDA. Tim is a Fellow of the UK Safety and Reliability Society and of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. He was a member of the EPSRC Mathematics Programme Strategic Advisory Panel. Tim was a plenary speaker at European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2007. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Reliability Engineering and System Safety and was Chair of Mathematical Methods in Reliability Conference, 2007. Recent consultancy projects have been carried out for Aveco, ESTEC, MoD, DSTL, Railway Safety, Magnox, Netherlands Ministry for Water Management, Philips. Tim was awarded the Donald Julius Groen prize for 2009 by the IMechE Safety and Reliability Group.
Tim enjoys jazz music and plays trombone. His great ambition, which will certainly remain unfulfilled, is to play like Frank Rosolino, J.J. Johnson or Curtis Fuller.
