ETH Risk Center
In establishing the interdisciplinary ETH Risk Center, which places itself among the leading proponents of Integrative Risk Management (IRM). In this spirit the aim of the Risk Center’s activities will be to build an integrated view of risk landscapes and develop the means to understand, assess, compare and manage these. Its research output will help societies to better manage risk portfolios and to design novel solutions and collaborative risk reduction schemes.
The Risk Center fosters both top-down initiatives and bottom-up collaborative research projects linked with R&D. It will also serves as an interface between academia and industry.
Our society is confronted by highly diverse interconnected risks: natural, technological, social, economic and political. The ETH Risk Center has therefore taken an Integrative Risk Management (IRM) perspective and drawn risk expertise from several different areas.
Main Research Topics
- Economic and financial crises
- Social risks and conflicts
- Management of the robustness of infrastructure systems and services
- Integrative risk management and system design
Research Focus
- Cross-disciplinary approaches by combining competences from the natural, engineering, social, economic and political sciences.
- Work towards the understanding and better management of complex technical, socio-economic and environmental systems by integrating modeling and simulation efforts with empirical, observational, and experimental methods.