Pieter van Gelder is full-time professor of safety science at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology and director of the TU Delft Safety and Security Institute. He has been involved in research and education on safety and reliability since 1991. His research interests are in risk-analysis and optimisation of systems, processes and structures. He teaches 4th and 5th year courses at TU Delft and conducts research on new methods and techniques in risk analysis.

He has a MSc degree in Technical Mathematics and Informatics from TU Eindhoven and a PhD degree in Civil Engineering and Geosciences from TU Delft. He is currently project leader in several ongoing national - and EU research projects (amongst others iNteg-Risk, a large scale EU integrating project on integrated risk management in industrial systems, SMARTEST (Smart Resilience Technology, Systems and Tools) and MATRIX (New Multi-HAzard and MulTi-RIsK Assessment MethodS for Europe)).

Furthermore he is member in a number of Technical Programme Boards and Scientific Committees of annual international conferences (such as the ESREL and IPW series (International Probabilistic Workshop)). He is co-editor and reviewer of several journals (RESS (Reliability Engineering and System Safety) and AJSE (Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering)). Van Gelder is furthermore programme director of several post-academic courses at Delft Toptech, school of executive education.

research interest

Developing risk management methodologies for reliable, secure and safe design in socio-technical domains.