Safety Insights (PDF)

continue adding value to the industry led to his initiative to launch in 2016 the International Cross-industry Safety Conference and the development and delivery of professional development courses in the area of Safety and Risk Management and Safety Investigations.

Mikela Chatzimichailidou is a Systems Assurance Engineer at WSP (UK) and a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University (UK) and Imperial College London (UK). She was awarded her PhD in Complex Systems Safety and Human Factors, as well as her MSc in Systems Engineering Management from Democritus University of Thrace (GR) where she also did her Meng as a Mechanical Engineer. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge she worked on Patient Safety for a Year. During her three years at Imperial College London, Department of Civil Engineering, she led versatile projects ranging from systems safety and human factors to complexity management and systems engineering in transportation and infrastructure. Dr. Chatzimichailidou has published a book on Project and Risk Management, a best practice report with Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network (UK), 20 peer reviewed papers to international journals and over 40 conference papers. She is a reviewer in numerous international journals, such as Accident Analysis & Prevention, Safety Service and Risk Analysis etc., and conferences. Dr. Mikela Chatzimichailidou as a consulting engineer has been bringing together experience and expertise from across healthcare, aviation, rail and infrastructure in the fields of system engineering, product engineering, system and safety assurance and project management. She has been leading research and consulting assignments for more than a decade both in academia for some of the world's top universities, and in industry, for a world class design and built environment consultancy. During her career she has worked in both hands-on R&D roles, consultancy and design roles and as a project manager, leading others to deliver client objectives and cutting-edge academic research. Her offering is that she brings experience of both the academic and industrial worlds, is able to bridge the gap and draw the best from each.