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Norway
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
83
Citations
22572
World Ranking
442
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Terje Aven is affiliated with the University of Stavanger in Norway and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and decision sciences. Their work spans several subfields including sociology and political science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, civil and structural engineering, artificial intelligence, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

The primary focus of Terje Aven's research lies in risk and safety analysis, risk perception and management, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, disaster management and resilience, occupational health and safety research, supply chain resilience and risk management, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

Terje Aven has published numerous papers across respected academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "The COVID-19 pandemic: how can risk science help?", 2020, Journal of Risk Research
  • "A risk science perspective on the discussion concerning Safety I, Safety II and Safety III", 2021, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Risk science offers an integrated approach to resilience", 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • "Globalization and global risk: How risk analysis needs to be enhanced to be effective in confronting current threats", 2020, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • "Creating conditions for critical trust - How an uncertainty-based risk perspective relates to dimensions and types of trust", 2020, Safety Science

Their frequent coauthors include Shital Thekdi, Roger Flage, Ingrid Glette-Iversen, Seth D. Guikema, and Marja Ylönen, reflecting collaboration across various aspects of their research focus.

Terje Aven has published in key venues such as Risk Analysis, Journal of Risk Research, Safety Science, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, and SSRN Electronic Journal. These platforms reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research and its application to both theoretical and practical challenges in risk and safety.

Best Publications

  • Risk assessment and risk management: Review of recent advances on their foundation

    Terje Aven

  • On risk defined as an event where the outcome is uncertain

    Terje Aven;Ortwin Renn

  • The risk concept—historical and recent development trends

    Terje Aven

  • On how to define, understand and describe risk

    Terje Aven

  • On Some Recent Definitions and Analysis Frameworks for Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience

    Terje Aven

  • Some considerations on the treatment of uncertainties in risk assessment for practical decision making

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio

  • Reliability Evaluation of Multistate Systems with Multistate Components

    Terje Aven

  • A unified framework for risk and vulnerability analysis covering both safety and security

    Terje Aven

  • A unified framework for risk and vulnerability analysis covering both safety and security

    Terje Aven

  • A new perspective on how to understand, assess and manage risk and the unforeseen

    Terje Aven;Bodil S. Krohn

  • Models and model uncertainty in the context of risk analysis

    Thomas Nilsen;Terje Aven

  • Misconceptions of Risk

    Terje Aven

  • On the meaning of a black swan in a risk context

    Terje Aven

  • EXPRESSING AND COMMUNICATING UNCERTAINTY IN RELATION TO QUANTITATIVE RISK ANALYSIS

    Roger Flage;Terje Aven

  • Risk Analysis: Assessing Uncertainties Beyond Expected Values and Probabilities

    Terje Aven

  • Foundations of risk analysis

    Terje Aven

  • Foundations of risk analysis : a knowledge and decision-oriented perspective

    Terje Aven

  • Practical implications of the new risk perspectives

    Terje Aven

  • Foundational issues in risk assessment and risk management.

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio;Enrico Zio

  • Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods

    Terje Aven;Enrico Zio;Piero Baraldi;Roger Flage

  • Implications of black swans to the foundations and practice of risk assessment and management

    Terje Aven

  • Risk, Surprises and Black Swans: Fundamental Ideas and Concepts in Risk Assessment and Risk Management

    Terje Aven

  • A risk perspective suitable for resilience engineering

    Riana Steen;Terje Aven

  • On the new ISO guide on risk management terminology

    Terje Aven

  • A framework for reliability and risk centered maintenance

    Jon T. Selvik;Terje Aven

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrico Zio
Enrico Zio Polytechnic University of Milan
Piero Baraldi
Piero Baraldi Polytechnic University of Milan
Ortwin Renn
Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart
Seth D. Guikema
Seth D. Guikema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Jones-Lee
Michael Jones-Lee Newcastle University
Rommert Dekker
Rommert Dekker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frank Asche
Frank Asche University of Florida
Genserik Reniers
Genserik Reniers Delft University of Technology
Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson Royal Institute of Technology
Eugene A. Rosa
Eugene A. Rosa Washington State University

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