Home Page of Pieter van Gelder
Dr.ir. Pieter van Gelder is full-time associate professor (universitair hoofddocent) of probabilistic methods in civil engineering at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in research and education on safety and reliability for over 15 years. His research interest is in risk-based hydraulic structural design, and extreme value statistics for hydraulic loads determination. Dr. Van Gelder has worked for the Ministry of Water Management on hydraulic engineering projects where high degrees of reliability were demanded and where statistical information was scarce. Van Gelder is also consultant for Nedstat BV on statistical analysis, and part-time lecturer at IHE, and PAO. He has authored and co-authored over 200 conference - and journal papers, and has supervised over 50 MSc-students and 10 PhD-students from the Faculty of Civil Engineering. He is currently management board member of ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association), and project leader in several international research projects. Van Gelder is furthermore member in a number of Technical Programme Boards and Scientific Committees of annual international conferences and workshops. Van Gelder also holds visiting professorships at the Institute of Risk Research (IRR) of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University of Waterloo, Canada, and at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
News:
December 2007: Van Gelder has been elected as member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the iNteg-Risk Project, a large scale EU integrating project on integrated risk management in industrial systems (total budget: 25 M€, duration: 54 months).
March 2008: The Chair on Probabilistic Design will host the International Probabilistic Workshop at TU Delft on November 25-26, 2009.
FP7 Research Proposal: Urban Floods Risk, prevention and management: a comparative study in South-East Asia and Europe, has been evaluated positively by the EU, April 7th, 2009.
COST Action: European procedures for flood frequency estimation (FloodFreq)
has been approved by the EU, April 6th, 2009.
EU Proposal: REGPOT-2009-1: Unlocking and developing the research potential of research entities in the EU's convergence regions and outermost regions has been submitted Feb. 19th, 2009.
Life Long Learning Programme (LLP) of ERASMUS with Hydraulics Laboratory, Dept. of Civil Eng., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has been submitted on Feb 25th, 2009.
The research proposal 'Integral safety management in ports and harbours' has been approved by the
Spanish Ministry of Public Works on March 16th, 2009.
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