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Professor Michael Beer

Professor of Uncertainty in Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Part of
School of Engineering
Faculty of Science and Engineering

Contact

M.Beer@liverpool.ac.uk

Professional Activities

Chair (2022–2024): European Safety and Reliability Association (Member since 2014)
Executive Board (since 2022): International Association for Structural Safety And Reliability (Member since 2005)
Executive Board (since 2023): European Association of Structural Dynamics
Board of Directors (2020–2028): International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management
Executive Board (since 2022): International Association for Reliability Engineering and Risk Management
Co-Chair of the Risk and Resilience Measurements Committee (RRMC), Infrastructure Resilience Division, ASCE (2020–2024)

Editor in Chief: Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Springer)
Editor in Chief: ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, Part B: Mechanical Engineering
Book Series Editorial Advisory Board: Computational Methods in Engineering & the Sciences (Springer)
Associate Editor of Journals: Information Sciences (since 2023); International Journal of Reliability and Safety (2011–2021); ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, Part B: Mechanical Engineering (2014–2020)

Member of Editorial Boards of Journals: Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics; Structural Safety; Computers and Structures; Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing; Engineering Structures, International Journal of Computational Methods; International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification; Disaster Prevention and Resilience; Scientific Reports; International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation; International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering; Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Construction Series; Periodica Polytechnica Civil Engineering

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

Chair of Executive Board (since 2023): International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (ISRERM)

Conference Roles

  • Uncertainty quantification: selected approaches, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (APCOM, 2013)
  • Computational Intelligence in Structural Analysis and Design, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (IEEE, 2013)
  • Generalized models for uncertainty and imprecision in engineering, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Opening Keynote Lecture - Professor Miroslav Vorechovsky, 2012)
  • Imprecise Probabilities in Engineering Systems and Structures, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Plenary Lecture - ASME, 2011)
  • Fuzzy Data and Imprecise Probabilities in Engineering, by Invitation (Invited Lecture - ISI, 2011)
  • Non-traditional Prospects in the Simultaneous Treatment of Uncertainty and Imprecision, by Invitation (Invited Special Lecture - Professor B.H.V. Topping, 2009)

Editorships

  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Editorial Board Member, 2015 - present)
  • Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk; Procs. ASCE-ICVRAM_ISUMA 2014 (Proceedings Editor, 2014)
  • ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil, Part B: Mechanical (Associate Editor, 2013 - present)
  • Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (Guest Editor, 2013 - 2014)
  • International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS) (Guest Editor, 2013 - 2014)
  • Transactions of the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Construction Series (Editorial Board Member, 2013 - present)
  • International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Hazard Mitigation (Editorial Board Member, 2013 - present)
  • Structural Safety (Guest Editor , 2013 - 2014)
  • International Journal of Computational Methods (Editorial Board Member, 2013 - present)
  • Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering (Editor-in-Chief (joint), 2012 - present)
  • Procs. 5th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications (APSSRA2012) (Proceedings Editor, 2012)
  • Structural Safety (Editorial Board Member, 2012 - present)
  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (Guest Editor, 2011 - 2013)
  • Computers and Structures (Guest Editor, 2011 - 2013)
  • International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS) (Associate Editor, 2011 - present)
  • Computers and Structures (Editorial Board Member, 2011 - present)
  • International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS) (Guest Editor, 2010 - 2012)
  • Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (Guest Editor, 2010 - 2011)
  • Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics (Editorial Board Member, 2010 - present)
  • 4th International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing (REC2010) (Proceedings Editor, 2010)
  • Structural Safety (Guest Editor, 2009 - 2010)
  • International Journal of Engineering under Uncertainty: Hazards, Assessment, and Mitigation (Editorial Board Member, 2009 - present)
  • Computers and Structures (Guest Editor, 2007 - 2008)

Organisations I have been associated with

  • Chairman: IEEE-SSCI-CIES2013
  • Local Committee Co-Chairman ICCM2014
  • Chairman: IEEE-SSCI-CIES 2014
  • Secretary APSSRA2012
  • University of Liverpool and ASCE
  • Chairman REC2010
  • Chairman UoL Workshop 2011
  • Chairman UoL-CSU-GATECH Joint Research Workshop

Professional Body Memberships

  • European Safety and Reliability Association (Member, 2014 - present)
  • Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society of Singapore (Secretary, 2010 - 2011)
  • European Association of Structural Dynamics (Invited member, 2009 - present)
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Member, 2009 - present)
  • ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (Chartered member, 2008 - present)
  • Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Society of Singapore (Committee Member, 2007 - 2010)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (Member, 2004 - present)
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (Feodor Lynen Fellow, 2003 - present)
  • International Association for Computational Mechanics (Member, 2002 - present)
  • German Association for Computational Mechanics (Member, 2002 - present)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Director, Institute for Risk & Uncertainty
  • Academic Director, EPSRC and ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantification and Management of Risk & Uncertainty in Complex Systems & Environments