Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kröger - Risk Center ETH Zürich

Employment

• 2011     Executive Director, ETH Risk Center (since mid 2011)
  External faculty member, Bridging Nations University, Washington, D.C., USA    
• 2003     Full Professor and Director of Laboratory of Safety Analysis, D-MAVT (Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering), ETH Zurich (until retirement Jan 2011)
  Acting Director of Institute of Energy Research (2007-09)
  Founding Rector of IRGC (International Risk Governance Council), Geneva, (since June 2003)
• 1990     Full Professor, ETH Zurich
  Head of Research Department on Nuclear Energy and Safety and Member of the Directorate, PSI (Paul Scherrer Institut), Villigen, (until May 2003)
• 1987     Acting Director of the Institute for Nuclear Safety Research at National Research Centre Jülich (FZJ, former KFA)     
• 1985     Deputy to the Director of the Institute for Nuclear Safety Research at National Research Centre Jülich (FZJ, former KFA)
• 1974     Scientist at FZJ; project leader     

Education

1986     Dr.-Ing. habil. (venia legendi), BUGH Wuppertal
1974     Dr.-Ing., Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen
1972     Diploma, Mechanical Engineering-Nuclear Technology, RWTH Aachen

Main Activities

• Providing methods and data suitable to model, analyze/simulate and optimize complex engineered systems/critical infrastructures in the energy, transportation and ICT domain, and interdependencies among them, regarding reliability/availability, risk and vulnerability.
• Developing a framework for comprehensive risk and vulnerability analysis and related management strategies as well as tools for decision making processes.
• Putting the understanding and management of technological transborder risks into a broader context and promoting international activities such as the International Risk Governance Council following a trans-sectorial and multi-disciplinary approach. Supporting the establishment of the ETH Risk Center and its outreach activities including a research program on Future Resilient Systems in Singapore.
• Giving advice to governmental and private organizations, in particular on energy assessment and policy issues and nuclear safety matters.
• Most recent publications address vulnerability analysis of engineered critical infrastructures (book journals) as well as security of energy supply and the role of nuclear power (contributions to books).

• Presentation "From Business Continuity to Business Resilience: Complex Technical Systems in Analogy" @Council on Strategic Risk Management, Zurich, 2012
• Keynote Speech "Fukushima: Need for Reappraisal of Nuclear Risks?" @SRA-Europe 21st Annual Conference, Zurich, 2012
• Presentation "Complex Technological Networks: Addressing Interdependencies" @Intl. Conference on Network Science, Budapest, 2012
• Interview: Risiken sind Gefahren und Chancen, @KPMG's Audit Committee Institute.