Peter Burgherr

Dr. Peter Burgherr
Head Technology Assesment
Technology Assessment Group
Labor für Energiesystem-Analyse (LEA/ENE)
PSI
OHSA D18
Forschungsstrasse 111
CH-5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 56 310 26 49
Phone2: +41 (0) 56 310 21 11
Fax: +41 (0) 56 310 21 99
E-mail: peter.burgherr(at)psi.ch
URL Institution: www.psi.ch/ta
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Peter Burgherr (up to ten) :
Burgherr, P., Spada, M., Kalinina, A., Vandepaer, L., Lustenberger, P., Kim, W. (2019) Comparative risk assessment of accidents in the energy sector within different long-term scenarios and marginal electricity supply mixes. IN: Beer, M., Zio. E. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL), pp. 1525-1532, Research Publishing, Singapore. http://itekcmsonline.com/rps2prod/esrel2019/e-proceedings/pdf/0674.pdf

Kalinina, A., Spada, M., Vetsch, D.F., Marelli, S., Whealton, C., Burgherr, P., Sudret, B. (2020) Metamodeling for Uncertainty Quantification of a Flood Wave Model for Concrete Dam Breaks. Energies 2020, 13, 3685. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13143685.

Cinelli, M., Spada, M., Kim, W., Zhang, Y., Burgherr, P. (2020) MCDA Index Tool: an interactive software to develop indices and rankings. Environment Systems and Decisions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-020-09784-x.

Gasser, P., Suter, J., Cinelli, M., Spada, M., Burgherr, P., Hirschberg, S., Kadzi?ski, M., Stojadinovi?, B. (2020) Comprehensive resilience assessment of electricity supply security for 140 countries. Ecological Indicators, 110, March 2020, 105731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105731.

Lustenberger P., Schumacher F., Spada M., Burgherr P., Stojadinovic B. (2019) Assessing the performance of the European natural gas network for selected supply disruption scenarios using open-source information. Energies, 12(24), 4685. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12244685.

Kim, W., Burgherr, P., Spada, M., Lustenberger, P., Kalinina, A., Hirschberg, S. (2019) Energy-related Severe Accident Database (ENSAD): cloud-based geospatial platform. Big Earth Data 2(4), 368-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2019.1586276.

Lordan-Perret, R., Wright, A.L., Burgherr, P., Spada, M., Rosner, R. (2019) Attacks on energy infrastructure targeting democratic institutions. Energy Policy, 132, 915-927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.06.025.

Hirschberg, S., Bauer, C., Burgherr, P., Cazzoli, E., Heck, T., Spada, M. & Treyer, K. (2016) Health effects of technologies for power generation: Contributions from normal operation, severe accidents and terrorist threat. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 145, 373-387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2015.09.013.

Hirschberg, S. & Burgherr, P. (2015) Sustainability Assessment for Energy Technologies. IN Yan, J. (Ed.) Handbook of Clean Energy Systems. Hoboken, NJ, USA, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118991978.hces070.

Burgherr, P. & Hirschberg, S. (2014) Comparative risk assessment of severe accidents in the energy sector. Energy Policy, 74, S45-S56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2014.01.035.



Expertise of Peter Burgherr:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeScientific / Fundamental Research
Applied Sciences / Technologies / Engineering
ScopeImpact of Change
Vulnerability to Change
Adaptation Measures to Change
Mitigation of Change
Topic HydrosphereFresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes
Topic BiosphereBiodiversity
Topic Integrated SystemsLife Cycle
Topic Economy/ResourceUseTransport / Mobility
Energy
Water
Topic TechnologyTechnology
Technical Environmental Protection
Topic SustainabilityEcological Sustainability
Social Sustainability
Topic Risk & Disaster ManagementRisk Assessment / Forecasting
Prevention of Risks and Natural Hazards
Fundamental Knowledge
Time FrameRecent / Today
Future
Statistical FocusExtreme Events
Mean Change / Trends
Variability
Time ScaleSeasonal / Annual
Decadal / Centennial
MethodsData Collection - Measurement
Data Collection - Documents, Archives
Data Analysis
Literature Study
Modeling
Policy Analysis and Formation
Applied Research / Technology
Integrated Assessment
Biodiversity Convention Cross Cutting IssuesIndicators
GIS
Energy Working GroupTechnology
Social Dimension
Economical Dimension
Ecological Dimension
Risks
Health Issues
MaturityWorkDomaines/Bereiche
MaturityWork1Biologie
MaturityWork3Géosciences/Geowissenschaften
MaturityWork7Physique/Physik
MaturityWorkParrainageOffres/Angebote
MaturityWorkParrainage1Ecole primaire/Primarschule
MaturityWorkParrainage2Ecole secondaire/Sekundarschule
MaturityWorkParrainage3Travaux de maturité/Maturaarbeiten

Specialties of Peter Burgherr:
Risk Assessment & Management, Sustainability, Energy Security, Energy Systems Analysis, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Resilience Engineering, Scenarios, Geographic Information Systems, Databases, Statistics.

Last update: 4/1/22
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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