Piero Baraldi is a full professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) since September 2021 and has been an associate professor from 2015 to 2021. He has taught courses on “Maintenance of nuclear installations” as part of the international master’s degree in nuclear energy organised by Paris Sud XI University, Paristech, Supelec, Ecole Centrale Paris and CEA/INSTN in France, and “Predictive maintenance of equipment in nuclear power plants” for nuclear and quantum engineering students at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) in South Korea.
His main research activities are currently dedicated to the development of methods and techniques for monitoring the health status of systems, fault diagnostics, prognostics and maintenance for energy and nuclear systems. He is also interested in methodologies for rationally managing the uncertainty and ambiguity of information relating to the characterisation of the risk of safety-critical systems, such as nuclear power plants. He has collaborated on projects in these areas with industrial partners such as Électricité de France (EdF) and international research centres such as the Halden Research Project (HRP) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra.
He was invited as a keynote speaker at the plenary sessions of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014) in Wroclaw (Poland), the Prognostics and System Health Management Conference 2016 in Chengdu (China) and the 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS 2019) in Rome (Italy). He has been invited to present four tutorials at international conferences. He served as Technical Programme Chair of the Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM-2013) in Milan (Italy) in 2013, the ESREL2020PSAM15 Conference in Venice (Italy) in 2020 and the ESREL2023 Conference in Southampton (United Kingdom) in 2023. He was also Technical Committee Co-Chair of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2014) in Wroclaw (Poland) and the 7th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS) in Bologna (Italy).
He is on the editorial board of three international scientific journals and is associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Reliability. From 2014 to 2018, he was treasurer of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and is currently Chair of the ESRA Technical Committee on Prognostics and System Health Management.
He is co-author of two books and over 220 articles published in international journals and international conference proceedings, dealing with topics related to reliability and risk, as well as predictive techniques applied to nuclear technologies and systems.