报告题目： Resilient Electrical Power Systems

报  告  人：Liz Varga 教授   伦敦大学学院

报告时间：2026年1月22日   上午10:00—11:00

报告地点：五山校区9号楼225报告厅

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                                                     2026年1月15日 

     报告人简介：

    Liz Varga is Professor of Complex Systems in the Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering Department of University College London (UCL) where she leads the Infrastructure Systems Institute. She was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s birthday honours (June 2024) for services to critical infrastructure. Prof Varga teaches, writes, and advises globally on energy, transport, digital communications, water, and waste systems. Her key research themes include infrastructure resilience, sustainable innovation, and decarbonisation. She uses digital methods including digital twins, computational ontologies, and AI and she is a member of the governing board of the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure. She is a commissioner with the National Preparedness Commission and the project manager for a new international standard ISO 22372 on infrastructure resilience. She is director of UKCRIC Services Limited, and an Executive of UKCRIC an 18 university collaboration for Research in Infrastructure and Cities.

报告摘要：

 Resilient infrastructure, particularly electrical power systems, must absorb and adapt to hazards and threats, minimising disruptions to essential services and enabling society to flourish. Technology, digitalisation, and data are supporting the identification of hazards and threats such as extreme weather and cyberattacks, allowing essential services to adapt and absorb potential disruptions. Reliability of electrical power systems overlaps with the domain of resilience, but its focus is on electricity provision rather than service assurance. The principles of resilient infrastructure set out in ISO22372 have been under development since 2022 with expert contributions from all continents. Building on earlier work with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, ISO22372 is now a comprehensive set of principles that guide nations, sectors such as energy, and organisations on what is needed for resilient infrastructure. The principles introduce the need for collaborative, proactive action, recognising that resilience is beyond asset assurance. Digitalisation, Industry 4.0 technologies, and sensing devices can provide a shared view of integrated infrastructure resilience in addition to the support they provide for other outcomes, such as productivity and decarbonisation. These technologies are now very well established and extending them to deliver resilient infrastructure is a small step for a leap in resilience of essential services. This talk elaborates the differences between resilience and reliability and offers suggestions for leveraging digital methods to increase resilience.