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Prof. Dr. Tina Comes

Tina Comes is Director of the Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). This institute is dedicated to the protection and security of critical infrastructures – important organizations and facilities whose failure or disruption would have significant consequences for public safety. The research conducted at this centre is divided into four areas: Resilience and Risk Methodology, Detection Systems, Digital Twins for Infrastructures and Simulation Methods for Digital Twins.

Affiliation: Currently Director of the Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Full professor at Delft University of Technology and formerly Scientific Director 4TU.Resilience Engineering (until October 2025).

Email: t.comes@tudelft.nl

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Prof. Dr. Ir. Remco Dijkman

Remco Dijkman, Professor of Information Systems, specializes in data-driven process optimization and resilience in complex systems. His research focuses on real-time monitoring of supply chains and other logistic operations, facilitating decision making as well as rapid adaptation and recovery of disruptive events. By aligning mathematical models with real-world data and processes, he enhances operational efficiency as well as system resilience during and after disruptive events.

Affiliation: Eindhoven University of Technology

Email: r.m.dijkman@tue.nl

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Dr. Jonas Jörin

Dr. Jonas Jörin manages the operations and research programmes of the Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (ARCS) Ltd. Current research programmes at Illinois ARCS focus on breakthrough innovations in interactive cyber-infrastructures and precision fermentation-based food production. Jonas’ research interests are to understand human-environmental processes, focusing on individual resilience in the context of hazards, and how people adapt to environmental challenges and disasters.

Affiliation per 01.10.2025: Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore Ltd.

Email: jonas.joerin@iarcs-create.edu.sg

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Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser

Within resilience engineering Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser specializes in intelligent human-centered environments. His research integrates adaptive networks, proactive intelligent systems, cybersecurity, and immersive human interaction to enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures. By addressing challenges like dynamic digital twins and trust-based security & privacy, he advances robust, adaptive systems for future smart cities and critical operations.

Affiliation: Technical University of Darmstadt, Telecooperation Lab (TK for short)

Email: max.muehlhaeuser@tu-darmstadt.de

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Dr. Maria Pregnolato

Maria Pregnolato, Associate Professor at TU Delft, specializes in infrastructure resilience and flood risk management, focusing on flooding impacts on roads, bridges, and buildings. As an EPSRC Fellow, she investigated extreme flooding effects on bridges using hydrodynamic and networkmodelling. Her recent work explores structural health monitoring and Digital Twins, as well as crisis management and disaster risk reduction.

Affiliation: Delft University of Technology

Email: m.pregnolato@tudelft.nl

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Reuter

Christian Reuter works in the area cybersecurity, crisis management, and human-computer interaction. His work focuses on crisis informatics, information warfare, and usable security. He contributes to resilience by developing adaptive tools for disaster response and public safety. These innovations help systems and communities recover from disruptions. He heads the PEASEC group at TU Darmstadt.

Affiliation: Technical University of Darmstadt, Science and Technology for Peace and Security (PEASEC)

Email: reuter@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de

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Dr. Christian Schaffner

Christian Schaffner is the Executive Director of the Energy Science Center (ESC) of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. The ESC is an inter-disciplinary competence centre to promote energy research and teaching at ETH. It aims to facilitate the deployment of an environmentally friendly, reliable, low risk, economically viable and socially compatible sustainable energy system.

Affiliation: ETH Zurich

Email: schaffner@esc.ethz.ch

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The Organising Institutions

4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering (4TU.RE) is the knowledge centre in Resilience Engineering of the four universities of technology in the Netherlands (Delft University of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente and Wageningen University and Research).

The Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) is a research centre jointly established by ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) and Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF). Located in Singapore, the SEC is a hub for multidisciplinary research on practical and sustainable solutions to current global challenges. Its three research programmes – Future Cities Lab Global (FCL Global), Future Resilient Systems (FRS), and Future Health Technologies (FHT) – explore the areas of urban sustainability, resilience and health respectively.

ETH Zürich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded by the Swiss federal government in 1854, with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists; the school focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, although its 16 departments span a variety of disciplines and subjects.

Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. It was founded in 1877 and received the right to award doctorates in 1899. TU Darmstadt has assumed a pioneering role in Germany. Computer science, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence, mechatronics, business informatics, political science and many more courses were introduced as scientific disciplines in Germany by Darmstadt faculty.

DLR-Institute for the Protection of Terrestrial Infrastructures is dedicated to the protection and security of critical infrastructures – important organizations and facilities whose failure or disruption would have significant consequences for public safety. The more complex and interconnected societies and their infrastructures become, the more vulnerable they are to threats. Therefore, this institute develops holistic approaches, processes and technologies that strengthen and improve the resilience of critical organizations and entities. Research conducted is divided into four areas: Resilience and Risk Methodology, Detection Systems, Digital Twins for Infrastructures and Simulation Methods for Digital Twins.