Dr Marco Cinelli

26.02.2019, 12.00 -13.00, Oculus, OC001

Speaker: Dr. Marco Cinelli is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, USA (current location) and Institute of Computing Science at Poznan University of Technology, Poland.

Between April 2017 and August 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) Programme of Singapore-ETH Centre in Singapore. Prior to this, he was an early career fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and research assistant in the Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Group of WMG Department, University of Warwick (UK). He also held, between May 2016 and February 2017, a visiting scientist position at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra (VA), Italy.

He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Warwick (UK) in 2016.

His talk

In his talk, Marco will present a structured MCDA process to conduct resilience assessment of nation-wide energy systems, i.e. countries.

He will focus on two main contributions of the research project, (i) the selection of the indicators which characterize the resilience of electricity supply at the national level and (ii) the comparison of the overall performance, based on the selected indicators, of 140 countries according to different normalization and aggregation functions.

From a practical perspective, Marco will show how the use of these various aggregation methods can support development agencies interested in considering decision-makers with different levels of trade-offs acceptance. This can help for instance the shaping of energy policies of countries where minimum performance goals can be guaranteed and highly compensatory plans are excluded at an early stage.

Marco will also introduce the MCDA Index Tool (http://www.mcdaindex.net/), a web software that provides a practical and straightforward guide for the construction of indices and rankings.