Reliability availability and safety aspects are to be included in the design phases of complex projects. Railway and Oil and Gas project developments require the involvement of safety standards like the IEC61508 or IEC61511 and the EN50126 50128 and 50129. Such standards need a good statistical knowledge and therefore in this seminar the basic probability, reliability, availability concepts will be recalled to merge them with the basics of safety design. IEC61508 standard and basic safety configurations will be analysed and compared with case studies.

Ph.D. in Reliability Availability and Logistics, University of Florence, Italy, 2003, Laurea Degree (110/110 cum Laude) in Electronics Engineering with major in Non Linear Automatic Controls, University of Florence, Italy, 1999.
Since 2014 he has obtained the scientific qualification for ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP on Electronic Measurements E9/04 (W2) from the Italian Ministry of Education.
During His career he covered the following roles:
Assistant Professor at the University of Siena (Manager of the electronics training lab.), University of Siena, Italy, 2013-Present
Faculty and Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Technology Dept. at the Higher Colleges of Technology Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2012 – 2013
Assistant Professor at the University of Siena (Manager of the electronics training lab.), University of Siena, Italy, 2005-2012
Co-founder of the SENSIA SrL Company, Italy, 2008 www.sensia.it
Co-founder of the DESMOWEB SrL Company, Italy, 2009 www.desmoweb.com
Product Safety Engineer at General Electric (GE) Power System Oil and Gas Division with the responsibility of leading the design for safety of five production sites (AC Compressor, Gemini, Rotoflow, Thermodyn, PII), Florence, Italy, 2003-2005.
Visiting Professor at Universitat Politecnica de la Catalunya (UPC) where he delivered classes at the PhD. Program.
He has been in charge of measurements and reliability classes since 2005.