Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Beer

since 2015
Professor (full, tenured) and Head, Institute for Risk and Reliability, Leibniz Universität Hannover

since 2011
Professor (full, tenured) of Uncertainty in Engineering,
University of Liverpool, School of Engineering & Institute for Risk and Uncertainty (since 2015 part time)

since 2015
Guest Professor, Tongji University, College of Civil Engineering, Dept. of Structural Engineering & Shanghai Institute for Disaster Prevention and Relief & International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (host: Prof. Jie Li & Prof. Jianbing Chen) International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure (host: Prof. Hongwei Huang)

2021 – 2024
Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Honorary Appointment by Professor Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua University (host: Prof. Zhang Yi)

2014 – 2015
Founding Director of the EPSRC and ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantification and Management of Risk & Uncertainty in Complex Systems & Environments, University of Liverpool

2012 – 2015
Founding Director of the Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool

2007 – 2011
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Centre for Hazards Research & Centre for Offshore Research and Engineering

2004 – 2007
Project Leader, Research and Teaching Associate, Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Statics and Dynamics of Structures

2003 – 2004
Visiting Scholar (Feodor Lynen Fellowship granted by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation), Rice University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (host: Prof. Pol D. Spanos)

1995 – 2003
Research Assistant, Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Statics and Dynamics of Structures

2001
Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.), Technische Universität Dresden

1995
Masters degree (Dipl.-Ing.), Technische Universität Dresden

1993
Technical Translator Russian - German for Civil Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden

2022
Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure for “groundbreaking influential research in reliability and risk analysis of complex infrastructure systems under vague information and shaping the next generation of engineers and researchers”, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

2021
Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Distinguished Service to the Society as Founding Associate Editor of the ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

2020 ASCE Outstanding Reviewer, in recognition of outstanding service as a reviewer for the
ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

2020
Donald Julius Groen Prize of the Safety & Reliability Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 2020, best paper award (together with Hindolo George-Williams, Geng Feng, Frank P.A. Coolen, Edoardo Patelli)

2016
Certificate for Highly Cited Research in Structural Safety, Editors of Structural Safety and Elsevier Publishers (together with Yi Zhang, Ser Tong Quek, Kok Kwang Phoon)

2014
Certificate of Appreciation for “Extraordinary Efforts Towards Organizing The Second International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty (ICVRAM-ISUMA)”, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM)

2007
CADLM PRIZE 2007 – Intelligent Optimal Design (2007), CADLM France, best paper award (together with Dr. Martin Liebscher, DYNAmore GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany)

2003
Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

2002
Kurt Beyer Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, Technische Universität Dresden and HOCHTIEF Construction AG (Germany)

1995
Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann Medal for excellent study achievement (highest possible grade point average across all subjects – 1.0), Technische Universität Dresden

Chair (2022-2024): European Safety and Reliability Association

Executive Board (since 2022): International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability

Executive Board (since 2023): European Association for Structural Dynamics 

Co-Chair (2020-2023): Risk And Resilience Measurements Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers, Infrastructure Resilience Division

Board of Directors (2020-2028): International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management  

Co-Director (since 2021) (representing Europe) of the International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure, and Topic Leader of its topic area “urban lifeline system network”, Shanghai, China

Chair (2018-2020): Committee on Probability and Statistics in the Physical Sciences C(PS)2 under the auspices of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability (member 2015–2018)

Executive Board Member (since 2018): International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM) 

Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (since 2003)

European Safety and Reliability Association (Member since 2014)

International Association for Structural Safety And Reliability (Member since 2005)

Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (Member since 2011)

American Society of Civil Engineers (Member since 2004), Charter Member of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (since 2008), Member of the Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) and IRD Risk And Resilience Measurements Committee (since 2015)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Member since 2009), Member of the ASME Research Committee on Risk Technology (since 2013)

International Association for Computational Mechanics (Member since 2002)

German Association of Computing in Civil Engineering (Member since 2016)

German Association for Computational Mechanics (Member since 2002)

European Association of Structural Dynamics, Technical Committee (Invited Member since 2009), Subcommittees Theoretical, computational and experimental research and Updating and identification with experiments and inverse problems

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society of Singapore (Secretary 2010–2011, Committee Member 2007–2010)

2023

Keynote Lecture at the International Forum on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (IFRERM2023), Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, February 23-25

Title: Effective systems modeling for decision-making in complex environments­­­

Plenary Lecture at the 6th International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and Control, Shanghai, China, April 7-9

Title: Effi­cient structural dynamics analysis with aleatory and epistemic uncertainties

­2022

Keynote Lecture 13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR), Tongji University Shanghai, China, September 13-17

Title: Efficient reliability analysis with imprecise probabilities

Plenary Lecture at the International Conference of Mechanical Design & The 21st Annual Conference on Mechanical Design, Hunan University Changsha, China, August 14-16

Title: Efficient numerical methods for reliability analysis of structures with imprecise probabilities

Keynote Lecture at the 1^st Symposium on Verification and Validation in Numerical Simulation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China, July 20

Title: Epistemic Uncertainties in Engineering; Modeling and Efficient Analysis

Plenary Lecture at the Summer Workshop on Interval Methods, Leibniz University Hannover Hannover, Germany, July 20

Title: Efficient engineering analysis with imprecise probabilities

2021

Keynote Lecture at the 3^rd International Conference on System Reliability and Safety Engineering (SRSE 2021), China, November 26 - 28

Title: Engineered Systems: complexity, uncertainties and quick informed decisions

Keynote Lecture at the 5^th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS), Palermo, Italy, November 24–26

Title: Analysis of Engineered Systems: uncertainties, complexity and quick decision making

Plenary Lecture at the International Conference on Construction, Architecture and Technosphere Safety, Sochi, Russia, September 6–8

Title: Quantitative Methods for Epistemic Uncertainties in Engineering

Keynote Lecture at the 9^th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC2021), University of Messina / University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy, May 17-20

Title: Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Engineering Systems

Keynote Lecture at the International Engineering Mechanics Forum, 2020 (IEMForum 2020), Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, February 22-25 

Title: Efficient Analysis of Structures with Hybrid Uncertainties

2020

Keynote Lecture at the 7^th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM2020), Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, November 12-14

Title: Some attempt on making quick and informed engineering decisions despite uncertainty and complexity

Keynote Lecture at the VI International Conference on Safety Problems of Civil Engineering Critical Infrastructures (SPCECI 2020/Safety2020), Yekaterinburg, Russia, November 5–6

Title: Infrastructure Systems: complexity, uncertainties and efficient analysis

Keynote Lecture at the 10^th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE2020), Xian, Shaanxi, China, October 8-11

Title: Epistemic Uncertainties: Opportunity or Burden?

 2019

Keynote Lecture at the 17^th International Probabilistic Workshop 2019, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, September 11-13

Title: Uncertainty Quantification under Vague Conditions

Keynote Lecture at the 9^th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering 2019, Zhangjiajie, China, August 6–9

Title: Efficient Systems Analysis Addressing Complexity and Uncertainties  

2018

Keynote Lecture at ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference 2018, 
Shanghai, China, November 2–4, 2018

Title: Analyzing Complex Systems Under Epistemic Uncertainties

Keynote Lecture at ASCE-ICVRAM-ISUMA 2018: Third International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management and Seventh International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, Florianopolis, Brazil, April 8–11

Title: Reliability Assessment with Limited and Vague Information

2017

Special Invited Lecture at the Transport Safety Forum, Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Professor Xinping Yan, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, May 11

Title: Reliability Assessment of Complex Systems in Uncertain Environments

Keynote Lecture at the Final Workshop of the Research Training Group 1462 "Model Quality Assessment", Faculty of Civil Engineering, Professor Frank Werner, Bauhaus University Weimar, Weimar, Germany, April 26-28

Title: Efficient Reliability Analysis of Systems in Uncertain Environments

2016

Plenary Lecture at EUROMECH: Conference on Multi-Uncertainty and Multi-Scale Methods and Related Applications, Porto, Portugal, September 14–16

Title: Coherent Models for Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties

Keynote Lecture at ISRERM2016: 5th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, August 17–20

Title: Reliability Assessment of Systems with Limited Information

Keynote Lecture at REC2016: 7th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing, Bochum, Germany, June 15–17

Title: Dealing with Vague and Limited Information in Uncertainty Quantification

Keynote Lecture at APSSRA 2016: 6th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications, Shanghai, China, May 28–30

Title: Do We Have Compatible Concepts of Epistemic Uncertainty ?

2015

Keynote Lecture at ICMR 2015: 3rd International Conference on Materials and Reliability, Jeju, Korea, November 23–25

Title: Selected Developments in Uncertainty Quantification

2014

Plenary Lecture at ESREL 2014: XXIV. European Safety and Reliability Conference, Wroclaw, Poland, September 14–18

Title: Conceptual Directions in Uncertainty Quantification

Special Review Lecture at CST 2014: Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Naples, Italy, September 2–5

Title: Conceptual comparison of Bayesian approaches and imprecise probabilities

2013

Thematic Plenary Lecture at APCOM & ISCM 2013: 5th Asia-Pacific Congress for Computational Mechanics & 4th International Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Singapore, December 11–14

Title: Uncertainty quantification: selected approaches

Keynote Lecture at IEEE SSCI CIES: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions, Singapore, April 16–19

Title: Computational Intelligence in Structural Analysis and Design

2012

Opening Keynote Lecture at REC2012: 5th International Conference on Reliable Engineering Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, June 13–15

Title: Generalized models for uncertainty and imprecision in engineering

Keynote Lecture at the International Workshop on Actuarial & Financial Mathematics: Theory & Applications, Liverpool, UK, June 7

Title: Coping with uncertainty and vague environments: mathematical models and engineering applications

2011

Plenary Lecture at ASME IMECE 2011: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Track 20 Applied Stochastic Optimization, Uncertainty and Probability, Denver, CO, USA, November 11–17

Title: Imprecise Probabilities in Engineering Systems and Structures

Keynote Lecture at the International Workshop on Risk, Reliability and Uncertainty, Liverpool, UK, March 17–18

Title: Robust Design via Explorative Data Analysis

2009

Invited Special Lecture at CSC2009: First International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, September 1–4

Title: Non-traditional Prospects in the Simultaneous Treatment of Uncertainty and Imprecision

2007

Award Lecture at the Workshop on Advanced Design Optimization of Materials, Structures and Mechanical Systems, Xi’an, China, December 17–20 presentation of the paper awarded with the CADLM INTELLIGENT OPTIMAL DESIGN PRIZE

Title: Designing Robust Structures – A Nonlinear Simulation Based Approach

Editor in Chief

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems

- Part A: Civil Engineering
- Part B: Mechanical Engineering

Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Springer)
together with Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Edoardo Patelli, Ivan Siu Kui Au

Book Series Editorial Advisory Board

Computational Methods in Engineering & the Sciences (Springer)

Associate Editor

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

Information Sciences

Editorial Boards

Computers and Structures

Disaster Prevention and Resilience

Engineering Structures

International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification

International Journal of Computational Methods

International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation

International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering

International Journal of Engineering Under Uncertainty: Hazards Assessment and Mitigation

Machine Learning for Computational Science and Engineering

Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics

Structural Safety

Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava Construction Series