Nicola Pedroni

• Advanced (deterministic and probabilistic) methods for the modeling, simulation and analysis of safety-critical, dynamic systems and infrastructures (in particular, for energy production and distribution) under uncertainties, in order to assess (efficiently) their associated risk, vulnerability and resilience.
• Statistical techniques and artificial intelligence methods for the prompt (on-line) detection and diagnosis of faults in safety-critical systems (in particular, for energy production).
• Uncertainty modeling and quantification techniques for the reliability analysis and risk assessment of safety-critical components and systems (in particular, for energy production and safety).

Settori ERC

SDG

• FRONTIERS IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING (2023-), Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale
• ENERGIES (2021-), Altro tipo di attività editoriale
• PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. PART O, JOURNAL OF RISK AND RELIABILITY (2016-), Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale
• ASCE-ASME JOURNAL OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN ENGINEERING SYSTEMS. PART A, CIVIL ENGINEERING. (2015-), Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale

• Professore a contratto, presso CentraleSupelec (1/1/2016-31/3/2017)
• Ricercatore, presso École Centrale Paris (1/11/2014-30/6/2016)
• Ricercatore, presso CentraleSupelec (1/3/2013-31/12/2015)
• Professore Incaricato Esterno, presso CEA Saclay (1/9/2012-13/12/2019)
• Visiting Researcher, presso École Centrale Paris (1/9/2012-31/12/2012)
• Ricercatore a t.d. (art.1 comma 14 L. 230/05), presso Politecnico di MILANO (1/6/2010-28/2/2013)
• Visiting Researcher, presso Massachusetts Institute of Technology (15/9/2008-31/5/2009)

• Collegio di Ingegneria Elettrica ed Energetica. Componente
• Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente invitato

Dottorato di ricerca

• Advances in stochastic simulation and artificial intelligence for the safety analysis of nuclear systems. A.A. 2025/26, ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• System-level modeling of nuclear plants. A.A. 2025/26, ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
• System-level modeling of nuclear plants. A.A. 2023/24, ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
• System-level modeling of nuclear plants. A.A. 2022/23, ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso
• System-level modeling of nuclear plants. A.A. 2020/21, ENERGETICA. Collaboratore del corso

Corso di laurea magistrale

• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2025/26, GEORESOURCES AND GEOENERGY ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2024/25, GEORESOURCES AND GEOENERGY ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2023/24, GEORESOURCES AND GEOENERGY ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2022/23, GEORESOURCES AND GEOENERGY ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2021/22, PETROLEUM AND MINING ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA DEL PETROLIO E MINERARIA). Collaboratore del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso
• Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis (modulo di Monte Carlo methods, safety and risk analysis B). A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Titolare del corso
• Risk Analysis. A.A. 2020/21, PETROLEUM AND MINING ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA DEL PETROLIO E MINERARIA). Collaboratore del corso
• Sicurezza e analisi di rischio. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA E NUCLEARE. Collaboratore del corso

Corso di laurea di 1° livello

• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso
• Sicurezza degli impianti energetici. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA ENERGETICA. Titolare del corso

• Gruppo di Ricerca NEMO (DENERG)

Progetti finanziati da bandi competitivi

• ENDURANCE - EU kNowleDge hUb foR enAbling MolteN Salt ReaCtor safety development and dEployment, (2024-2028) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
  Ricerca UE - HE - EURATOM
• ARISTOTELES - ARtificial Intelligence and STOchasTic simulation for the rEsiLience of critical infrastructurES, (2023-2026) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Ricerca Nazionale - PRIN

• George Afful. Corso in Energetica (40^o ciclo, 2025-in corso)

• Abrate, N.; Pedroni, N.; Caruso, N.; Dulla, S.; Lorenzi, S. (2026)
  Early warning in Molten Salt Fast Reactors based on a data-driven method for the online incident detection and diagnosis. In: NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, vol. 446. ISSN 0029-5493
  Contributo su Rivista
• Di Maio, F.; Matteo Coscia, T.; Pedroni, N.; Bersano, A.; Mascari, F.; Zio, E. (2024)
  Global Sensitivity Analysis for Segmented Inverse Uncertainty Quantification in the Safety Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants. In: ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, vol. 208. ISSN 0306-4549
  Contributo su Rivista
• Romanelli, F.; Abate, D.; Acampora, E.; Agguiaro, D.; Agnello, R.; Agostinetti, P.; ... (2024)
  Divertor Tokamak Test facility project: status of design and implementation. In: NUCLEAR FUSION, vol. 64. ISSN 0029-5515
  Contributo su Rivista
• Baccou, J.; Glantz, T.; Ghione, A.; Sargentini, L.; Fillion, P.; Damblin, G.; Sueur, R.; ... (2024)
  A systematic approach for the adequacy analysis of a set of experimental databases: Application in the framework of the ATRIUM activity. In: NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN, vol. 421. ISSN 0029-5493
  Contributo su Rivista
• Di Maio, Francesco; Pedroni, Nicola; Zio, Enrico (2023)
  Nuclear Systems Safety Analysis by Artificial Intelligence, Meta-Modeling and Adaptive Simulation. In: PSAM 2023 Topical Conference on AI and Risk Analysis for Probabilistic Safety/Security Assessment and Management, Urbana-Champaign (Illinois, USA), October 23-25, 2023, pp. 1-1
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Abrate, Nicolo’; Aimetta, Alex; Dulla, Sandra; Pedroni, Nicola (2023)
  Nuclear Data Uncertainty Propagation for the Molten Salt Fast Reactor Design. In: NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, pp. 1-23. ISSN 0029-5639
  Contributo su Rivista
• Abrate, Nicolo'; Pedroni, Nicola; Moscatello, Alberto; Carpignano, Andrea; Carbone, ... (2023)
  A novel approach combining bootstrapped non-intrusive reduced order models and unscented transform for the robust and efficient CFD analysis of accidental gas releases in congested plants. In: JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES, vol. 83, pp. 1-17. ISSN 1873-3352
  Contributo su Rivista
• Abrate, Nicolo; Dulla, Sandra; Pedroni, Nicola (2023)
  A non-intrusive reduced order model for the characterisation of the spatial power distribution in large thermal reactors. In: ANNALS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY, vol. 184. ISSN 0306-4549
  Contributo su Rivista
• Pedroni, Nicola (2023)
  Stacked Sparse Autoencoders and Classical Artificial Neural Networks for the Inverse Uncertainty Quantification of Dynamic Engineering Systems Models. In: 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublino, 9-13 July 2023, pp. 1-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Pedroni, Nicola (2023)
  Robust Ensemble of Computational Techniques for the Detection of Outliers in the Inverse Uncertainty Quantification with Limited Data. In: UNCECOMP 2023 5 th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering, Athens, Greece, 12-14 June 2023, pp. 19647-19647
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Uggenti, A. C.; Nallo, G. F.; Carpignano, A.; Pedroni, N.; Zanino, R. (2022)
  Identification of the Postulated Initiating Events of Accidents of a CPS-Based Liquid Metal Divertor for the EU DEMO Fusion Reactor. In: FUSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, pp. 1-13. ISSN 1536-1055
  Contributo su Rivista
• Roma, G.; Antonello, F.; Di Maio, F.; Pedroni, N.; Zio, E.; Bersano, A.; Bertani, C.; ... (2022)
  Passive safety systems analysis: A novel approach for inverse uncertainty quantification based on Stacked Sparse Autoencoders and Kriging metamodeling. In: PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR ENERGY, vol. 148. ISSN 0149-1970
  Contributo su Rivista
• Pedroni, N. (2022)
  Computational methods for the robust optimization of the design of a dynamic aerospace system in the presence of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties. In: MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. 164. ISSN 0888-3270
  Contributo su Rivista
• Di Maio, F.; Pedroni, N.; Toth, B.; Burgazzi, L.; Zio, E. (2021)
  Reliability assessment of passive safety systems for nuclear energy applications: State‐of‐the‐art and open issues. In: ENERGIES, vol. 14. ISSN 1996-1073
  Contributo su Rivista
• Puppo, L.; Pedroni, N.; Maio, F. D.; Bersano, A.; Bertani, C.; Zio, E. (2021)
  A Framework based on Finite Mixture Models and Adaptive Kriging for Characterizing Non-Smooth and Multimodal Failure Regions in a Nuclear Passive Safety System. In: RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY, vol. 216. ISSN 0951-8320
  Contributo su Rivista
• Abrate, Nicolo'; Dulla, Sandra; Pedroni, Nicola; Ravetto, Piero (2021)
  A non-intrusive reduced order model for neutronic transient analyses of the ALFRED reactor. In: Mathematics & Computation (M&C) 2021, Virtual Meeting, pp. 489-498
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Nallo, G. F.; Pedroni, N.; Uggenti, A. C.; Carpignano, A.; Zanino, R. (2020)
  Functional safety assessment of a liquid metal divertor for the European demo tokamak. In: 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2020 and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM15 2020, Venice (Italy), 2020, pp. 750-750. ISBN: 978-981-14-8593-0
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Abrate, N.; Dulla, S.; Pedroni, N. (2020)
  A non-intrusive reduced order model for light water reactor core stability analysis. In: 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2020 and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM 2020, Venice (Italy), 2020, pp. 4946-4952. ISBN: 9789811485930
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Pedroni, N. (2020)
  Computational methods for system optimization under uncertainty. In: 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2020 and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM 2020, Venice (Italy), 2020, pp. 1119-1126. ISBN: 9789811485930
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Destino, V.; Bonifetto, R.; Pedroni, N.; Savoldi, L.; Di Maio, F.; Zio, E.; Zio, E. (2020)
  Advanced methods for loss-of-flow accident precursors identification in a superconducting magnet cryogenic cooling circuit. In: 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2020 and 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, PSAM 2020, ita, 2020, pp. 2303-2310
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)