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Peter Burgherr joined the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) as a risk analyst in 2001. Since August 2008 he leads the inter-disciplinary Technology Assessment (TA) group, which carries out comprehensive assessments of energy systems to support the complex decision-making processes towards a sustainable energy future. Since 2014 he also leads a risk group on “Assessing and Measuring Energy Systems Resilience” within the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) program of the Singapore ETH Centre (SEC) in Singapore.His primary research interest is the comparative analysis of accident risks in the energy sector, and its relevance in the broader context of energy security and critical infrastructure protection. He is also the primary responsible for PSI’s database ENSAD (Energy-Related Severe Accident Database), which is the world's largest database on severe accidents in the energy sector. Furthermore, he is strongly involved in the sustainability assessment of current and future energy technologies as well as their evaluation within Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). He is regularly presenting his work at international conferences and meetings, publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals, contributing to books, and various other publications. As part of his duties, he is also engaged in the supervision of students at different levels (PhD, MSc, BSc, interns), and lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), University of Geneva, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), and KINGS (Busan, South Korea). Peter Burgherr holds an MSc and PhD degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ). Specialties: Comparative Risk Assessment, Sustainability, Energy Security, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Multi Criteria Decision Analysis, Energy Policy, Resilience, Extreme Events, Databases, GIS

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