Marilia Ramos

Marilia Ramos Business and Research Development Officer Ph.D. Federal University of Pernambuco M.S. Federal University of Parnambuco B.S. Federal University of Parnambuco

Dr. Marilia Ramos has expertise in Risk Analysis and Human Reliability with extensive experience leading and collaborating on projects for different industries, from the nuclear industry to autonomous cars and wildfire evacuation.  She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a Research Scientist at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA. She is currently a Business and Research Development Officer at the University of Toronto, where she forges collaborations between academia, industry, not-for-profit, and governmental agencies around cutting-edge research topics. She initiated and co-organizes the International Workshop on Autonomous Systems Safety (IWASS) and collaborates with the Garrick Institute on projects concerning the Phoenix Human Reliability Analysis methodology and autonomous systems' safety.