He is CEO of Steinbeis EU-VRi European Risk and Resilience Institute in Stuttgart, Germany and a full professor at Steinbeis University and Associate Member of ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His previous academic and research assignments include Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Ecole Polytechnique (France), University of Tokyo (Japan), University of California La Jolla (USA), the European Commission (Belgium, Italy), Argonne Ntl. Lab. (USA), as well as work in/for industry. He has acted as project manager of over 150 large international/multinational projects in innovation management, new technologies, risk management, advanced data analysis and data mining, and related areas (the project for the EU, national governments, industry, utilities, insurances companies, R&D and academia). Main projects deal with risk and resilience management (e.g. for insurance, power, process plants), resilience indicators and application of AI. He was the convener of the national, European and ISO standards: CEN-CWA 15740:2008 (“RBI”), EN16991:2018 (“RBI”) and CEN-CWA 16449:2013 (“Management on New Technologies- Related Risks”), ISO TS 31050 (“Management of emerging risks for enhanced resilience”), DIN-SPEC 91461:2022 (“Framework for stress- testing resilience of industrial plants and sites”). He co-authored the landmark OECD study "Future Global Shocks" (2013) and has authored 7 books and over 150 publications.