RICCARDO PATRIARCA

Riccardo Patriarca is Associate Professor of Industrial Systems Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research focuses on resilience engineering and on risk and safety management in complex socio-technical systems. He applies this work to Air Traffic Management and aviation systems, industrial plants, critical infrastructures and healthcare. He also works on spare parts management and logistics, linked to reliability and maintenance engineering. Alongside his academic role, he works with aiComply, a Sapienza spin-off specialised in risk and compliance management and advanced intelligent data systems.

He came to engineering from a classical education in Greek, Latin and philosophy. He earned a BSc in Aerospace Engineering and an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering. In 2017 he completed a PhD in Industrial and Management Engineering, earning the Doctor Europaeus title. His thesis was titled Developing risk and safety management methods for complex socio-technical systems: From Newtonian reasoning to Resilience Engineering. During the PhD he carried out joint research with the Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety at Lund University (Sweden). That work studied resilience in socio-technical systems at two levels: what resilience means as a concept, and how it plays out in operations.

Afterwards, hw worked as a PhD intern at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, in the Safety Unit of Network Operations Management within the Network Management Directorate, where he modelled airspace safety performance. He returned to Sapienza as a postdoctoral researcher in 2018. He then held a tenure-track position from 2021 to 2024 before becoming associate professor.

He has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He serves on the editorial boards of Safety Science (Elsevier), Reliability Engineering and System Safety (Elsevier), WUT Journal of Transport Engineering (Warsaw University of Technology), Cogent Engineering (Taylor & Francis) and the International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IGI Global). He also reviews for more than 80 journals in engineering, decision sciences, business, management and accounting.

His work has received several awards and recognitions:

• 2017: The Royal Aeronautical Society Young Person's Award.

• 2018: The National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in Industrial Systems Engineering.

• 2019: He received the Premio Italia Giovane. Forbes also named him to its 30 Under 30 Europe list for Science & Healthcare. In the same year, Forbes Italia named him one of its 100 young Italian leaders of the future in the science category (of the 5 in the category "Science").

• 2024: The National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Full Professor in Industrial Systems Engineering.