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Prof. Dr. Sebastián Martorell is Full Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Director of the Radiation Service and Ex-Director of the Chemical and Nuclear Department at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Dr. Martorell received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in 1991.

His research areas are probabilistic safety analysis, uncertainties, risk-informed decision making, and RAMS plus cost modelling and optimization using genetic algorithms. In the past 22 years that he has been with the Polytechnic University of Valencia, he has served as consultant to governmental national and international agencies, nuclear facilities and private organizations in areas related to risk and safety analysis, especially applications to safety system design and testing and maintenance optimization of nuclear power plants . In this period, Dr. Martorell has taken part as Main Researcher in 64 national and international research projects and contracts. Dr. Martorell has over 300 papers in journals and proceedings of conferences in various areas of reliability, maintainability, availability, safety and risk engineering.

He is a University Polytechnic of Valencia Teacher in the area of probabilistic risk analysis and RAMS for nuclear and chemical facilities. Dr. Martorell is calendar editor and a member of the Editorial Board of Reliability Engineering and System Safety International Journal. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Risk and Reliability. Proceedings of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O. He has been Vice-Chairman of European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA). He has been a member of Technical Committees of the European Safety and Reliability Conferences (ESREL) for more than 15 years and Chairman of ESREL 2008.

His e-mail address is smartore[arroba]iqn.upv.es