Prof. Dr.-Ing Michael Beer

PROFESSIONAL CAREER SINCE GRADUATION

Since 2021 | Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, China

Since 2015 | Professor and Head of Institute, Institute for Risk and Reliability, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover

Since 2015 | Guest Professor, Tongji University, China

Since 2011 | Professor of Uncertainty in Engineering, University of Liverpool, Institute for Risk and Uncertainty (since 2015 part-time)

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

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

2007 – 2011 | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

2004 – 2007 | Research and Teaching Associate, Research Project Leader, Dresden University of Technology (Germany), Institute of Statics and Dynamics of Structures

2003 – 2004 | Visiting Scholar, Rice University (Houston, TX, USA), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (Professor Pol D. Spanos)

1995 – 2002 | Research Assistant, TU Dresden (Germany), Institute of Structural Analysis

Others

Awards and Honors (Selected)

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”, ASCE

2021 | Appreciation for Distinguished Service as Founding Associate Editor of the ASCE-ASME J Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems

2020 | Donald Julius Groen Prize of the Safety & Reliability Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 2020, best paper award

2016 | Certificate for Highly Cited Research in Structural Safety; among the 5 most highly cited papers in 2014, 2015 and 2016

2014 | Appreciation for organizing ICVRAM-ISUMA, ASCE CDRM

2007 | CADLM PRIZE 2007 - Intelligent Optimal Design; best paper award, CADLM

2003/2004 | Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

2002 | Kurt Beyer Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, TU Dresden / HOCHTIEF AG

1995 | Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann Medal for excellent study achievement, TU Dresden

Membership in Professional Societies

2022 – 2024 | Chair: European Safety and Reliability Association (Member since 2012)

2020 – 2028 | Board of Directors: International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management

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

Since 2022 | Executive Board: International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (Member since 2005)

2018 – 2020 | Chair: 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 since 2015)

Since 2011 | Member of the Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association

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

Since 2009 | Invited Member of the European Association of Structural Dynamics

Since 2004 | Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Charter Member of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (since 2008)

Since 2003 | Member of the European Association of Structural Dynamics

Since 2003 | Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

Since 2002 | Member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics

Since 2002 | Member of the German Association for Computational Mechanics

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

Editorial Activities (Selected)

Since 2021 | Editor in Chief: ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems (since 2021), Part A: Civil Engineering and Part B: Mechanical Engineering

Since 2021 | Editor in Chief (joint) of the Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Springer) Member of 13 Editorial Boards of international journals; including Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing; Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics; Structural Safety; Computers and Structures; Engineering Structures

Publications and Projects

a) https://www.irz.uni-hannover.de/en/institute/people/beer/list-of-publications

b) https://www.irz.uni-hannover.de/en/institute/people/beer/research-projects