Socio-economy & New Tech

    Cyber Security

    Resilient Infrastructure & Safety

    Information & Network Security

    Cyber Threats & Cybercrime

AXA Chairs

Switzerland

AXA Chair in Risk and Reliability Engineering

November 4, 2006: 15 million households were affected by the planned shutdown of a power line in northwestern Germany. A blackout throughout the European power grid was triggered when a high-voltage line across the Ems River was turned off to allow a cruise ship to pass, splitting the grid into three separate areas. With the ever-increasing complexity and interdependence of engineering systems come more threats, hazards and a growing risk of failure cascades.
Prof. Sansavini's project will develop innovative modeling and simulation techniques suitable for describing and quantifying the failure behavior of complex engineered systems as a whole, by focusing on their reliability and vulnerability. This will allow early detection not only of hidden failures and vulnerabilities, but also of critical emergent behavior, as well as design optimization and improved management and operation. Research will mainly focus on the following: how to ensure safe and efficient performance of emerging technologies; how to build a new paradigm and modeling framework to analyze complex systems and their interdependencies as a whole; how to integrate modern computer-based control systems into the overall system design and to ensure security against malicious cyber attacks; and how to validate highly sophisticated methods and tools following a system-of-systems approach.
From the telecommunication blackout in Rome to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, from Toyota’s safety issues to the north-eastern US blackout, reliability re-emerges as key.

Pervasive Use of Host Technologies in the Monitoring of Complex Large-Scale Systems: Opportunity or Peril?

Podcast of Prof Sansavini inaugural lecture here.

To add or modify information on this page, please contact us at the following address: community.research@axa.com

Giovanni
SANSAVINI

Institution

ETH Zürich

Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science

Country

Switzerland

Nationality

Italian

ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID, a unique and persistent identifier to researchers

Related articles

Socio-economy & New Tech

Artificial Intelligence

Cyber Security

Civil Society & Governance

Polarization & Social Divides

Social Cohesion & Community Building

Ethical AI & Responsible Innovation

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Australia

Trust in the Fediverse: Leveraging Community Protocols and Automation to Combat Online Harms

Online communication has grown rapidly, but effective governance frameworks for such communication is still evolving. Instead of becoming a "democratic... Read more

Ashwin
NAGAPPA

Queensland University of Technology

Socio-economy & New Tech

City resilience

Resilient Infrastructure & Safety

Smart Cities

Cyber Threats & Cybercrime

Urban Planning

AXA Project

Switzerland

Integrated Framework for Smart City Economic Resilience Assessment (IF-SCERA)

The increasing digitalization of electrical grids enhances efficiency and control but also heightens vulnerability to cyber threats. IF-SCERA proposes the... Read more

Matteo
SPADA

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Socio-economy & New Tech

Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure

Cyber Threats & Cybercrime

Information & Network Security

AXA Project

China

Build Cloud-outage resilience based on the cyberspace Endogenous Security Framework

Cloud services drive digital transformation but increasing reliance on them heightens the risk of outages with serious societal and economic... Read more

Xian
XU

Fudan University