Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Kröger

Wolfgang Kröger was Ordinarius of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990 and director of the Laboratory for Safety Analysis until his retirement early 2011. Simultaniously, he served as Founding Rector and Vice-President of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC; www.irgc.org), located in Geneva which has been established by a Swiss initiative in June 2003. Until then he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), where he was also on the board of directors. From June 2011 to October 2014 he was mandated founding executive director of the newly established ETH Risk Center. Currently he is working on outstanding projects like "Future Energy Systems" (ESYS) of three German academies and as senior advisor of the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks (ETH/MTEC) and on advisory boards of esteemd scientific institutions.

Prof. Kröger (born in 1945 in the Ruhr district, Germany) studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen, completed his doctorate in 1974, also at the RWTH Aachen, and his habilitation thesis in 1986. He started his professional career at the National Research Center Jülich in 1974 and became acting director of its Institute of Nuclear Safety Research 1987.

Wolfgang Krögers main activities involve

• Providing methods and data suitable to model, analyze/simulate and optimize single facilities and complex engineered systems, in particular coupled critical infrastructures, regarding reliability/availability, risk and vulnerability against hazards and cyber threats
• Developing a framework for comprehensive risk analysis and related management strategies as well as tools for decision making processes; shaping the evolving resilience concept
• Putting the understanding and management of techological global risks into a broader context and promoting international activities, including a research program on Future Resilient Systems at CREATE in Singapore
• Developing a knowledge base for the understanding and assessing hard- and software of highly automated vehicles, their reliability, benefits, and potential new risks, in particular
• Giving advice to governmental and private organizations, in particular on energy assessment and policy issues and on nuclear safety matters.

Amongst others, Wolfgang Kröger was chairman of the "Safety Review Group" of the EBRD, he is a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and leader of its topical platform 'autonomous mobility', member of the Technical Review Group of the Japan Nuclear Safety Institute and of the Advisory Board of the TU Munich Center for Technology in Society.

He is a honorary member of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft der Kernfachleute (SGK), awarded Distinguished Affiliated Professor TU Munich and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Sustainability Studies(IASS) Potsdam.

Prof. Kröger has published about 40 papers, including books and reviewed articles, only in the last 10 years, including:

• Kröger, W., Nan, C. Power Systems in Transition: Dealing with Complexity. In Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem, Routledge: 978-1-351-73673-2 (ISBN), 2018
• Sornette, D., Kröger, W., Wheatley, S. New Ways and Needs of Exploiting Nuclear Energy, Springer: 978-3-319-97651-8 (ISBN), 2018
• Kröger, W. Small-sized Reactors of Different Types: Regulatory Framework to be Re-thought? Modern Environmental Science and Engineering, Oct. 2017
• Kröger, W. Securing the Operation of Socially Critical Systems form an Engineering Perspective: New Challlenges, Enhanced Tools and Novel Concepts. European Journal for Security Research, 1 (2), 2017
• Kröger, W, Sansavini, G. Principles of disaster risk reduction, in Handbook of Protecting Electricity Networks from Natural Hazards, OSCE, 2016
• Nan, C., Sansavini, G., Kröger, W. Building an Integrated Metric for Quantifying the Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems, Panayiotou C. et al.(eds.) Critical Information Infrastructures Security, Springer: 978-3-319-31663-5(ISBN), 2016
• Kröger, W. , Nan, C. Addressing Interdependencies of Complex Technical Networks, D'Agostino, G., Scala, A. (eds.) Networks of Networks, Springer: Complexity, 978-3-319-03517-8 (ISBN), 2014
• Streffer, C., Gethmann, C.F., Kamp, G., Kröger, W., Rehbinder, E., Renn, O., Radioactive Waste, Springer, 978-3-642-22924-4 (ISBN), 2012
• Kröger, W., Zio, E. Vulnerable Systems, Springer, 978-0-85729-654-2 (ISBN), 2011
• Kröger, W. Energie aus Kernspaltung: Chancen und Wagnis, in "Energy", Hrsg. Rudolf von Rohr, P., Walde, P., Batlogg, B., vdf Hochschulverlag AG, 2009
• Linkof, I., Creutzig, F., Decker, J., Fox-Lent, C., Kröger, W. et al. Commentary: Changing the Resilience Paradigm. Nature Climate Change, vol.4, June 2014
• Sornette, D., Maillart, T., Kröger, W. Exploring the Limits of Safety Analysis in Complex Technological Systems. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 6(0), 59-66, 2013
• Bilis, E.I., Kröger, W., Nan, C. Performance of Electric Power Systems under Physical Malicious Attacks, IEEE Systems Journal, 7(4), 854-865, 2013
• Nan, C., Eusgeld, I., Kröger, W. Analyzing Vulnerabilities between SCADA System and SUC due to Interdependencies, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 113, 76-93, 2013
• Eusgeld, I., Kröger, W., Sansavini, G., Schläpfer, M., Zio, E. The Role of Network Theory and Object-oriented Modeling within a Framework for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructures, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 94(5), 954-63, 2009
• Kröger, W. Critical Infrastructures at Risk, A Need for a New Conceptual Approach and Extended Analytical Tools, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 93(12), 2008