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
Area of Expertise
- Uncertainty quantification
- Bayesian and Credal Networks
- Resilience assessment of complex infrastructures
- Nuclear safety
- Probabilistic risk assessment
- Human reliability
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
- 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)
- 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
- An integrated uncertainty quantification and optimization for solving the 2025 NASA-DNV challenge
- Rocchetta Roberto, Nespoli Lorenzo, Medici Vasco, Chen Yu, de Angelis Marco, Ochnio Dawid, Patelli Edoardo
- ESREL & SRA-E 2025 (2025)
- 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 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-025-02993-3
- Structural damage identification using data fusion and optimization of the self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm
- Li Yajun, Xiang Changsheng, Patelli Edoardo, Zhao Hua
- Symmetry Vol 17 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sym17030465
- Mitigating disruptions : assessing the role of regulatory measures in fuel supply chain resilience during floods in Brazil
- Farias Duque Jardel, Moura Raphael, Patelli Edoardo
- Proc. of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability & 33th Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference ESREL & SRA-E 2025 (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
- Intelligent Digital Twin management platform for natural-technological (NaTech) disasters (Horizon Europe Pump Priming scheme)
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator) Chen, Yu (Research Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2024
- Improved models for the impact of floods on transport infrastructure assets
- Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) Ferguson, Neil (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 14-Jan-2025
- Care & Equity - Logistics UAS Scotland Phase 3 (CAELUS 2) (Future Flight Challenge)
- Fossati, Marco (Principal Investigator) Akartunali, Kerem (Co-investigator) Cashmore, Michael (Co-investigator) Irvine, James (Co-investigator) MacBryde, Jillian (Co-investigator) Maddock, Christie (Co-investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) Tapinos, Efstathios (Co-investigator) Vasile, Massimiliano (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
- Low-cost sensor system for enhanced bridge flood resilience (TRIG)
- Tubaldi, Enrico (Principal Investigator) Patelli, Edoardo (Co-investigator) White, Chris (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
- Enhanced Methodologies for Advanced Nuclear System Safety
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator)
- 14-Jan-2022 - 13-Jan-2025
- Intelligent computational methods for sustainable and resilient infrastructure (Saltire Facilitator Network)
- Patelli, Edoardo (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Edoardo
Patelli
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: edoardo.patelli@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4682