June 1st 2015

The 2015 International Conference on Risk Analysis (ICRA6) was held in Barcelona on May 26-29, 2015. It is an international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of Risk Analysis, with applications for the risk assessment and the risk management in Life, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Public Health, Economics and Finance, and Reliability of Engineering, Technical, Biological and Biomedical Systems.

The ICRA 6/RISK 2015 conference objective is to assemble researchers and practitioners from universities, institutions and industries from around the world, involved in these fields, and to encourage mutual exchange and collaboration in international research projects.

The conference was organized by five Catalan universities, including: Open University of Catalonia (UOC), University of Barcelona (UB), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and University of Pompeu Fabra (UPF). The ICRA conference is also organized with the ISI Committee on Risk Analysis (ISI-CRA) of the International Statistical Institute.

The organizer committee, made up of researchers from various fields of knowledge, was led by Montse Guillem (UB), Isabel Sierra (UAB), Angel Juan (UOC), Carles Serrat (UPC) and Helena Ramalhinho-Lourenço (UPF), one from each University. All of them lead or belong to an internationally recognized research groups in the analysis and management of risk, and they are a reflection of the multidisciplinariety of the conference, with the cooperation of students and undergraduates of the organizers centers.

Close to 200 researchers in risk analysis from around the world were present in the meeting. They are experts in properly quantifying the risk based on the limited data that are available at certain times, or in looking inside the big data for searching patterns which lead to identify what may constitute a risk to the public.

Catalonia and Barcelona are a pole of global research on risk analysis, with a large number of researchers from all Catalan universities dedicated to it and linked to disciplines such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science and Data Analysis, and with a great capability to work in multidisciplinary scientific teams.