Professor Edoardo Patelli
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Personal statement
I am a professor in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification and the Head of the Centre for Intelligent Infrastructure at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. I am working in a multidisciplinary environment in collaboration with members from all the university faculties and strong links with world-leading scholars. I am the Chair of the Technical Committee on Simulation for Safety and Reliability Analysis of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), Chair of the Technical Committee for the 2019 and 2022 European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), 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). My current research interests are in:
- Nuclear safety
- Efficient and readable numerical methods for uncertainty quantification
- Resilience Engineering for critical infrastructure
- Digital twin and efficient simulation methods capable of managing and quantifying uncertainty
- Developing Trustful AI and Learning Algorithms for Imprecise and Bad Data
- On-line monitoring tools for nuclear systems, Civil infrastructure and aerospace
- Human reliability analysis and interaction with autonomous systems
- Risk communication
Prize And Awards
- 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
Publications
- Damage diagnosis of bridge structures using deep learning strategies : a hybrid neural networks practical tool
- Xiang ChangSheng, Zhao Hua, Wu GuoJi, Chen LiJuan, Yang Zhen, Patelli Edoardo
- Structural Health Monitoring, pp. 1-28 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/14759217261445344
- Modeling market adaptation and regulatory flexibility for fuel supply resilience
- Farias Duque Jardel, Moura Raphael, Patelli Edoardo
- Proceedings of the 36th European Safety and Reliability Conference European Safety and Reliability Conference (2026)
- Enhancing procedure quality : advanced language tools for identifying ambiguity and high-potential violation triggers
- Johnson Karl, Morais Caroline, Patelli Edoardo
- Reliability Engineering and System Safety Vol 264 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2025.111308
- On the computational complexity of the interval dependence problem in credal networks
- de Angelis Marco, Estrada-Lugo Hector Diego, Ferson Scott, Patelli Edoardo
- Digitalisation and Digital Transformation Communications in Computer and Information Science, pp. 113–118 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04731-1_15
- Robust storm surge forecasts for early warning system : a machine learning approach using Monte Carlo Bayesian model selection algorithm
- MacDonald E, Tubaldi E, Patelli E
- Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment Vol 39, pp. 2789-2816 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-025-02993-3
- Risk and Reliability Analysis of a Drone Logistic Network for Healthcare System
- Filippi Gianluca, Basu Tathagata, Patelli Edoardo, Vasile Massimiliano, Fossati Marco
- Advances in Reliability, Safety and Security European Safety and Reliability Conference, pp. 133-134 (2025)
Teaching
I am currently teaching:
- Probability and statistics
- Structural reliability
- Monte Carlo methods
- Bayesian approaches
- FMEA, Fault Tree, Event Tree
Research Interests
My primary research interests focus on the general area of risk analysis, uncertainty modelling and quantification, sensitivity analysis, nuclear safety, reliability and availability of complex systems. In particular, the focus is on the development of verified and efficient stochastic computational methods able to model different representation of the uncertainty and providing trustful reliability analysis and risk assessment.
The numerical implementations have resulted in the development of an open-source general-purpose software package for uncertainty quantification and stochastic analysis.
Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes - EPSRC (Critical Mass) - IES Workshop
- Participant
- 7/2/2025
- EPSRC Scoping Worskhop (Critical mass)
- Participant
- 30/1/2025
- Frontiers Nuclear Engineering (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/8/2024
- Changsheng Xiang
- Host
- 1/1/2024
- Frontiers Nuclear Engineering (Journal)
- Associate Editor
- 30/6/2023
- 5th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 14/6/2023
Projects
- Feasibility of Small Modular Reactors for Zero-Emission Ships & Ports
- Karvounis, Panagiotis (Principal Investigator) Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Co-investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Ward, Michael (Co-investigator)
- £39,964.61
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2027
- Feasibility of Small Modular Reactors for Zero-Emission Ships & Ports (NZCLEAR)
- Theotokatos, Gerasimos (Principal Investigator) Boulougouris, Evangelos (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Ward, Michael (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- Real-time uncertainty quantification in a Digital Twin for Emergency Response to Scottish Ambulance Service(DRNet+ funding call)
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Fossati, Marco (Co-investigator) Basu, Tathagata (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2026
- UKAEA Studentship - Uncertainty quantification for fusion: exploring novel techniques to quantify and propagate uncertainty in nuclear analysis through the design lifecycle
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator)
- Student - Innes O'Donnell
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2027
- EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Hydrogen Net Zero EnerHy | Vinitha Jose, Jittu
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Hamilton, Andrea (Co-investigator) Vinitha Jose, Jittu (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- KTP - Will Rudd Davidson (Glasgow) Limited - To embed advanced modelling and monitoring strategies for new and heritage masonry structures.
- Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) De Angelis, Marco (Co-investigator) Moghaddasi Kelishomi, Hamed (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Sentenac, Phillippe (Co-investigator) Tarantino, Alessandro (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
Contact
Professor
Edoardo
Patelli
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: edoardo.patelli@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4682