Conference / Seminar oral presentations

Invited (Keynote/Plenary)

1. MCDA for Sustainability Assessment, Helmholtz workshop on MCDA for Sustainability Assessment, Karlsruhe (Germany), 18-19 October, 2023

Invited (1st author)

1. GLAM Weighting subtask reporting (co-author Cecilia Askham), Global Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method (GLAM) Workshop, Copenhagen (Denmark), 30 May - 1 June, 2023

2. The MCDA Methods Selection Software (MCDA-MSS): A Radar for Decision Analysts (co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Peter Burgherr, Michael A. Gonzalez, Roman Słowiński), INFORMS annual meeting, Indianapolis (USA), 16-19 October, 2022

3. Testing a novel Decision Support System to identify the most suitable MCDA method for energy systems analysis (co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Peter Burgherr, Grzegorz Miebs, Roman Słowiński), ESREL 2021, Virtual, 19-23 September, 2021

4. Supporting complex decision-making in multiple criteria-based projects with MCDA-MSS (co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Peter Burgherr, Roman Słowiński), International Conference on Operations Research 2021, Virtual, 31 August - 3 September, 2021

5. A New Decision Support System for Recommending Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Methods (co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Grzegorz Miebs, Michael A. Gonzalez, Roman Słowiński), INFORMS annual meeting, Virtual, 7-13 November, 2020

6. Materials, Technologies and Systems Assessment: Multiple Criteria-based Challenges, Network of Early-Career Sustainable Scientists & Engineers (NESSE) & The Innovative Manufacturing and Future Materials Global Research Priority Conference, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 3 March, 2020   A decision support system for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA): The case of resilience assessment for countries’ electricity supply, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 26 February, 2019  

7. A decision support system for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA): The case of resilience assessment for countries’ electricity supply, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 26 February, 2019  

8. Comparative resilience assessment of national electricity supply (co-authors Patrick Gasser, Milosz Kadziński, Matteo Spada, Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (Sweden), 22 August, 2018 

9. Rankings comparisons: the case of resilience assessment of countries’ electricity supply (co-authors Patrick Gasser, Milosz Kadziński, Matteo Spada, Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg), 29th European Conference on Operational Research, Valencia (Spain), 8-11 July, 2018

10. A multidisciplinary itinerant career, Institute of Advanced Study Symposium - The Internationalisation of Research, Warwick Business School (WBS) London, the Shard, London (UK), 17 May, 2018 https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/activities/symposium/2018 * Part of my focal interest on professional development of early career researchers

11. Moving Sustainability and Resilience Assessment Forward with Decision Aiding (invited by Prof. Kim Leng Poh and Operational Research Society of Singapore), Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 29 November, 2017 http://www.frs.ethz.ch/News/frs-news-channel/2017/11/sustainability-and-resilience-assessment-with-mcda.html  

12. A structured decision support framework for the risk assessment of energy technologies (co-authors Matteo Spada, Milosz Kadziński, Roman Słowiński, Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg), 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Quebec City (Canada), 17-21 July, 2017

13. Implementing sustainability. (Why and) How?, Sustainability Economics Workshop, World 50 Labs, New York City  (USA), 21-23 March, 2017 * Part of my focal interest on science communication to industry and policy-makers 

14. Co-constructive development of a green chemistry-based model for the performance assessment of nanoparticles synthesis (co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Krisztof Ciomek, Stuart R. Coles, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Rajender S. Varma, Kerry Kirwan), 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan (Poland), 3-6 July, 2016

15. Co-Constructing Sustainable Nanotechnology with Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, (invited by Dr. Serenella Sala) Bio-Economy Unit – Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Ispra (Italy), 2 May, 2016

16. Why should you invest time and effort on your Professional Development?, (invited by the Graduate School of the University of Warwick) the Graduate, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 16 March, 2016 https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/gsp/community/pglunches/pgr_lunch_2016_03_20_mc_for_graduate_school.pdf *Part of my focal interest on professional development of early career researchers

17. Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding: A Decision Support Approach for Green Chemistry-Oriented Synthesis of Nanomaterials (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Rajender S. Varma, Kerry Kirwan), 23rd International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Hamburg (Germany), 2-7 August, 2015

Self-proposed

1. Teaching multiple criteria decision analysis at Leiden University College, 96th Meeting of the European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (EWG-MCDA), Paris (France), 21-23 September, 2023

2. How can Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) support the remediation of contaminated sites? Insights from an U.S. EPA case study (co-authors Michael A. Gonzalez, Robert Ford, John McKernan, Salvatore Corrente, Miłosz Kadziński, Roman Słowiński), SETAC Europe, Virtual, 3-6 May, 2021

3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship: My story, Crafting Grants and Fellowships Applications seminar, CREATE Tower, Singapore, 12 April, 2018 * Part of my focal interest on professional development of early career researchers

4. Resilience assessment of countries’ electricity supply according to different aggregation functions (co-authors Patrick Gasser, Johannes Suter, Milosz Kadziński, Matteo Spada, Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg), International Conference on Infrastructure Resilience, ETH Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), 14-16 February, 2018 

5. Classification models for the risk assessment of energy accidents in the natural gas sector (co-authors Matteo Spada, Grzegorz Miebs, Milosz Kadziński, Peter Burgherr), The 2nd International workshop on Modelling of Physical, Economic and Social Systems for Resilience Assessment, Ispra (Italy), 14-16 December, 2017

6. State of the art and proposal of an improved weighting approach for LCA (co-authors Lorenzo Benini, George Gaskell, Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Serenella Sala, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Rana Pant), Research workshop at Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra (Italy), 13-14 December, 2016

7. Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding Moves Sustainable Nanotechnology Forward (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Rajender S. Varma, Kerry Kirwan), 82nd European Working Group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding, Odense (Denmark), 24-26 September, 2015

8. Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding: Supporting Decisions for Green Chemistry-Oriented Synthesis of Nanomaterials (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Rajender S. Varma, Kerry Kirwan), 2nd WMG Doctoral Research and Innovation Conference, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 30 June - 1 July, 2015

9. Moving Sustainable Nanotechnology Forward (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Omowunmi Sadik, Barbara Karn, Kerry Kirwan), “Seminars on Nanotechnology”, WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry (UK), 09-10 June 2015

10. Supporting Decision-Making for Nanosafety (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Kerry Kirwan), 3rd Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference, Boston (USA), 2-4 November, 2014

11. Supporting Decision-Making for Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, Jerzy Błaszczyński, Roman Słowiński, Rajender S. Varma, Kerry Kirwan), 22nd Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Conference, Kansas City (USA), 14-17 October, 2014

12. Sustainability of Nanocellulose: Proposal for an Integrated Assessment (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Kerry Kirwan), 21st Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Conference, Warwick (UK), 18-20 September, 2013

13. Multi Criteria Decision Analysis: supporting Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Kerry Kirwan), 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Gothenburg (Sweden), 25-28 August 2013

14. Sustainability assessment of nanocellulose and its applications: a critical review and a proposal of an integrated methodology (co-authors Stuart R. Coles, Kerry Kirwan), TAPPI International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials, Stockholm (Sweden), 24-27 June 2013

Co-authored

1. GLAM Weighting (Cecilia Askham (presenter)) parallel event of ORIENTING project at SETAC Europe, Dublin (Ireland), 30 April – 4 May, 2023

2. Multiple criteria-based assessments of Nature-Based Solutions for flood management: a review (Lorette Gallois (presenter), other co-author Marc van den Homberg) European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), 23-28 April, 2023

3. Designing medical devices (MDs) resilient to low-resource settings (LRSs): a Delphi study and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) approach (Davide Piaggio (presenter), other co-authors Rossana Castaldo, Sara Cinelli, Alessia Maccaro, Leandro Pecchia) IUPSEM World Congress, Singapore (Singapore), 12-17 June, 2022

4. Criteria Used to Review Weighting Methods As Part of the UN Environment Life Cycle Initiative's Global Guidance on Environmental Life Cycle Impact Assessment Indicators (GLAM) Project (Cecilia Askham (presenter), co-authors Chris Koffler, Andrea Amadei, Rosalie Arendt, Till M. Bachmann, Breno Barros, Anders Bjørn, Luis C. Dias, Alexis Laurent, Masaharu Motoshita, Lea Rupcic, Serenella Sala, João Santos, Laura Scherer, Bengt Steen, Ryosuke Yokoi), SETAC Europe 32nd Annual Meeting, Copehagen (Denmark), 15-19 May, 2022

5. Sustainability Assessment of Potential Areas for Deep Geothermal Energy Systems in Switzerland (Matteo Spada (presenter), other co-author Peter Burgherr) INFORMS annual meeting, Seattle, OR (USA), 20-23 October, 2019

6. Indices under the spotlight: An Approach to Unveil and Manage the Implicit Trade-offs between Indicators (Patrick Gasser (presenter), other co-authors Matteo Spada, Peter Burgherr, Bozidar Stojadinović) 29th European Safety and Reliability (ESREL) Conference, Hannover (Germany), 22-26 September, 2019

7. Measurement-system-design framework based on multi-objective optimization for bridge load testing (Numa Bertola (presenter), other co-authros Simon Casset, Salvatore Corrente, Ian Smith) World Congress on Resilience, Reliability and Asset Management, Singapore (Singapore), 28-31 July, 2019

8. A multi-criteria decision analysis based framework to evaluate public space quality. (Peijun He (presenter), other co-authors Pieter Herthogs, Ludovica Tomarchio, Bice Tunçer), , Smart & Sustainable Built Environments. 6th CIB International Conference. International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, SASBE 2018, Sydney (Australia), 4-7 December, 2018

9. Risk assessment of worldwide refinery accidents using advanced classification methods: effects of refinery configuration and geographic location on outcome risk levels (Peter Burgherr (presenter), other co-authors Matteo Spada, Jurek Blaszczynski, Roman Słowiński, Yvan Pannatier), European Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems, ESREL 2018, Trondheim (Norway), 17-21 June, 2018 

10. Resilience quantification of electricity supply using data envelopment analysis (Patrick Gasser (presenter), other co-authors Milosz Kadziński, Peter Burgherr, Bozidar Stojadinović), International Conference on Infrastructure Resilience, ETH Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), 14-16 February, 2018 

11. The role of resilience in a holistic framework for secure energy supply (Matteo Spada (presenter), other co-authors Peter Burgherr, Stefan Hirschberg), International Conference on Infrastructure Resilience, ETH Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland), 14-16 February, 2018 

12. Sustainability of potential areas for deep geothermal energy systems: A preliminary application to Switzerland (Matteo Spada (presenter), other co-author Peter Burgherr), INFORMS annual meeting, Houston, TX (USA) 22-25 October, 2017