In 2022, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) bestowed the “Alfred Ang Award on Risk Analysis & Management of Civil Infrastructure” to Professor Michael Beer, the international partner representative and adjunct professor of the International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (JCERSM) at Tongji University and professor of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, in recognition of Beer’s outstanding contribution to “groundbreaking influential research in reliability and risk analysis of complex infrastructure systems under vague information and shaping the next generation of engineers and researchers”.

Prof. Beer received his B.S, M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Technische Universität Dresden in 1993, 1995 and 2001 respectively. After completing his studies, Beer went to Rice University, USA, to engage in post-doctoral research (2002-2003). After that, Beer worked in the National University of Singapore and Liverpool University, and returned to Germany in 2011 after appointed as professor at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover and Director of the Institute of Risk and Reliability. He has been engaged in probabilistic design and risk assessment of civil engineering, imprecise probability problems and other research work for a long time, and has made a series of internationally renowned academic contributions. Prof. Beer is now the editor in chief of “Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems”.

“Alfred Ang Award on Risk Analysis & Management of Civil Infrastructure” was initiated by ASCE in 2015 to honor Professor Alfredo Ang, member of National Academy of Engineering (U.S.A.). He is the developer of practical and effective methods of risk and reliability approaches to engineering safety-and-design structural criteria formulation. Since 2015, Prof. Ang has been served as the director of the Advisory Committee of JCERSM at Tongji University.

The award may be made annually to an individual who has made significant technical or technological contributions to the field of risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure. At present, there are six winners, including:

2016: Dan Frangopol, professor of Lehigh University, USA;

2017: Bruce Ellingwood, academician of NAE, professor of Colorado State University, USA;

2018: Bilal Ayyub, professor of University of Maryland, College Park, USA;

2020: Gong-Kang Fu, professor of Illinois Institute of Technology, USA;

2021: Paolo Gardoni, professor of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Prof. Beer is one of the international partner representatives to initiate the International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (JCERSM) at Tongji University since 2015, and has been the international junction professor of JCERSM since then.

撰稿 律梦泽

2022年7月18日