Jürgen Hackl:
Complex Infrastructure Systems: Intelligent Risk and Resilience Assessments

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Dr Hackls' presentation focuses on complex infrastructure systems (such as transportation and supply chains), intelligent risk and resilience assessments for climate change, and integrated solutions to future challenges facing our cities and society. To gain a deeper understanding of such complex systems, new mathematical approaches and computational models are needed. In order to achieve this, we have to go beyond the classical boundaries of the individual disciplines and work in an interdisciplinary team. In this sense, research on smart mobility and smart cities have been developed as new research areas.

The aim of this presentation is to give an overview how complex infrastructure systems are currently modelled; how novel network analytic methods for spatial-temporal networks can be utilized to gain a better understanding of our complex urban environment; how advances in data analytics and machine learning provide us new ways to extract knowledge and support decision-making processes; as well as how cloud-based simulations might offer a solution for computational risk and resilience assessments of complex infrastructure systems.

Dr Jürgen Hackl is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and a member of the Data Analytics Group at the University of Zurich. He received his doctorate in Engineering Science from the ETH Zurich in July 2019. His research interests lie in complex urban systems and span both computational modelling and network science. Much of his work has been on improving the understanding, design, and performance of complex interdependent infrastructure systems, affected by natural hazards. Presently, he works on getting a better understanding of how the topology of the system influences dynamic processes and how this can be used to decrease the complexity of computational models. In order to transfer this knowledge to the industry, he co-founded the start-up Carmentae Infrastructure Management, helping infrastructure managers in their decision-making processes. Furthermore, he has a long history of supporting a sustainable digital world by developing and maintaining various open-source projects.