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Prof.dr.ir. Pieter van Gelder is full-time professor of safety science at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in research and education on safety and reliability for over 20 years. His research interest is in risk-based design, and extreme value statistics for safety assessments. Dr. Van Gelder has worked for the Ministry of Water Management on hydraulic engineering projects where high degrees of reliability were demanded and where statistical information was scarce. He has authored and co-authored over 300 conference - and journal papers, and has supervised over 50 MSc-students and 20 PhD-students at TU Delft. He is currently management board member of ESRA (European Safety and Reliability Association), and project leader in several international research projects. Van Gelder is furthermore member in a number of Technical Programme Boards and Scientific Committees of annual international conferences and workshops, such as ESREL, IPW and CESUN.