Adéla graduated in 2012 from the Czech Technical University in Prague as a civil engineer. During her bachelor's and master's studies, she focused on global sizing optimization. In 2012, she started her doctoral studies working on an industrial project with the European Space Agency, aimed at optimizing the geometry of a nozzle extension to minimize its weight and maximize its reliability w.r.t prescribed uncertain loading.
The whole reliability-based design optimization process interconnected approximation techniques, multi-objective optimization, reliability assessment, and meta-modelling. Adéla obtained her PhD in 2020 and joined the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague to develop algorithms for generating virtual microstructures of cement paste and their statistical description.
Adéla then joined the Chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification in June 2022 as a postdoc to work on the UQLab/UQCloud software platforms.
Stefano Marelli received his MSc in Physics from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2006 with a thesis on fast Monte-Carlo simulation of stochastic processes in particle accelerators. His research interests evolved into the field of deterministic inverse theory and its applications during his PhD (2007-2011) in the Applied and Environmental Geophysics group at ETH Zurich. Stefano's doctoral research focused on seismic full-waveform tomography as a tool for the non-intrusive monitoring of radioactive-waste disposal sites. His work on geophysical tomographic inversion continued with a 1-year postdoc with James Irving in the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Lausanne, where his research focused on uncertainty analysis in geophysical imaging.
In 2012 he joined the Chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification in ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of High Performance Computing applied to uncertainty quantification. Together with Prof. Sudret, he bootstrapped the UQLab software project, the Chair IT infrastructure, and assisted in the design and teaching of various courses provided by the Chair. His research focuses on active learning methods for uncertainty quantification and high-dimensional input-output UQ problems.
He is currently Senior Scientist (senior lecturer) in the Chair, leading the technical development of UQLab.
Bruno Sudret got a master of science from the Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 1993. He then obtained a master’s degree and a Ph.D in civil engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) in 1996 and 1999, respectively. Bruno Sudret has been working in probabilistic engineering mechanics and uncertainty quantification methods for engineering systems since 2000: first as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Berkeley (California), then as a researcher at EDF R&D (the French world leader in nuclear power generation) where he was the head of a group specialized in probabilistic engineering mechanics at the Department of Materials and Mechanics of Components. From 2008 to 2011 he has worked as the Director of Research and Strategy at Phimeca Engineering, a consulting company specialized in structural reliability and uncertainty quantification in engineering.
Bruno Sudret has been a professor of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering at the Institute of Structural Engineering since August 2012.
