Engineering Risk Analysis & Artificial Intelligence
Senior Researcher · Technical University of Munich
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About
I am a Senior Researcher at the Engineering Risk Analysis (ERA) Group, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich. Previously, I held postdoctoral positions at TU Delft (2023–2025), the Technical University of Denmark (2023), and the University of Liège (2021–2023), where I also completed my PhD.
My research develops probabilistic and data-driven methods for risk-informed decision-making in engineering systems operating under uncertainty. I work at the intersection of structural reliability, Bayesian modeling, and artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on sequential decision-making, active learning, and life-cycle management of infrastructure systems.
A central theme of my work is the use of Markov decision processes, multi-agent and hierarchical reinforcement learning, and Bayesian neural networks to design adaptive inspection, monitoring, and maintenance strategies. I combine these with uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis to enable decisions under partial observability, model uncertainty, and long time horizons.
My research spans applications in offshore wind energy, critical civil infrastructure, and urban building stock, where scalability, interpretability, and robustness to real-world data are essential.
Focus Areas
Markov decision processes and partially observable MDPs for adaptive inspection, monitoring, and maintenance planning under uncertainty. Safety calibration and risk-informed optimization of deteriorating engineering systems.
Multi-agent and hierarchical RL frameworks for scalable, coordinated management of large infrastructure networks. Emphasis on interpretability and policy robustness in safety-critical settings.
Bayesian neural networks and dynamic Bayesian networks for probabilistic inference from engineering data. Active learning methods for efficient experiment design and surrogate-model-based reliability analysis.
Risk-based inspection planning, fatigue and fracture reliability, and safety calibration for deteriorating structural components under realistic loading and environmental conditions.
Long-horizon, risk-aware optimization of networked and deteriorating systems, spanning offshore wind farms, critical civil infrastructure, and urban building stock.
Structural health monitoring, virtual load monitoring, and integrity management for offshore wind substructures. Application of probabilistic methods to fatigue assessment under operational and environmental uncertainty.
Selected Work
Writing
Academic Teaching
I teach and supervise at the intersection of engineering risk analysis, probabilistic methods, and artificial intelligence at TUM and through international collaborations.
Updates
Co-organizing MS139 — Optimization under Uncertainty at WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, Munich, Germany (19–24 July 2026)
Joined the Engineering Risk Analysis Group at TUM as Senior Researcher
Presented IMP-MARL at NeurIPS 2023
Joined the AiDAPT Lab at TU Delft as Postdoctoral Researcher
IMP-MARL released — open-source MARL environments for large-scale infrastructure management planning
Get in Touch
Email is the best way to reach me. I typically reply within a few days.
pablo.morato@tum.deSchool of Engineering and Design
Technical University of Munich
Theresienstr. 90, 80333 Munich, Germany
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