Associate professor in Risk and Safety, Lund University
I have participated in research exploring resilience at various scales and in different kinds of systems; from teams to organisations, communities and societies. I am particularly interested in consequences of resilience and adaptive behaviours. What are the costs or resilience? What does resilience do to the resilient subject and how does the resilient subject relate to- and cope with risk?

Lucie Cuvelier is a lecturer and researcher in psychology and ergonomics at the LINEACT Laboratory of the CESI engineering school. A Health and Safety Engineer, she defended a thesis in 2011 on resilience engineering and competence development (via full-scale anesthesia simulator for training) at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam, Paris). She then taught ergonomics for 10 years as an assistant professor at Paris 8 University. Her research focuses on instrumented human activity and the concept of risk. It examines how individuals develop their own resources (constructive activities) in various work and/or training situations.

Cecilia De la Garza's research focuses on human factors engineering, crisis management and organizational resilience. One of her main focuses is the analysis of cognitive processes and the functioning of groups in dynamic risk situations. It is involved in the design and consideration of human factors in risky systems, with two main objectives: firstly, to contribute to safe design and, secondly, to provide elements on organizational resilience in terms of success and failure factors, based on an empirical approach. It focuses on multi-disciplinary methods for evaluating choices in terms of organizational and technical management resources, and crisis organizations, using different types of simulation. It contributes to the development of innovative approaches to crisis management preparation, as well as to the definition of more robust crisis organizations.

Broadly speaking, my research focuses on understanding the nature and dynamics of team effectiveness in organizations. Nearly all my research examines processes at the team level, addressing both theoretical and practical issues in the study of team effectiveness.

My general line of research examines how team processes and emergent states (e.g., psychological safety, team cohesion) influence individual and team outcomes. I use a multi-method approach to studying team-level interactions and emergent states. A specific focus of my research is on how teams adapt when facing extreme events. Therefore, I collaborate with a number of healthcare institutions in Europe, various Polar Programs, and the European Space Agency. Such extreme settings provide a unique platform to learn from rare team phenomena and transfer this knowledge to more traditional organizations.

In my research, I focus on fundamental questions concerning the relationship between maritime professional knowledge and technology, with particular interest in what professional knowledge means in practice and how it changes in step with the digitization of shipping and society. As a starting point for my conceptual and empirical (ethnographic) analyzes of these phenomena, I consider knowing and learning as embodied, social, cultural, historical and material processes. I approach these questions from a range of different traditions and theories within learning research, informatics, organizational theory, and the philosophy and sociology of cognition and technology.

Elleke Ketelaars is a doctoral assistant with the SNSF-funded ROTSCO project (Resilience Oriented Training for Safety-concerned Organisations), directed by Dr. Simon Flandin. Her research focuses on preparing professionals in various fields (population protection, humanitarian missions, medical emergencies) to manage crisis situations involving safety and health issues. It is part of the adult education technology program headed by Prof. Germain Poizat, and is guided by (i) epistemic concerns about understanding real or simulated crisis management activity, and (ii) technological concerns, with the development of cross-disciplinary training design principles.

Simon Flandin holds a PhD in education and training sciences, and joined the University of Geneva after completing his thesis in 2015. His work involves analyzing the activity of professionals at work and in training, in order to define the best ways of fostering desirable transformations with regard to their performance, health, safety and/or development. They are contributing to a technological research program aimed at developing training design criteria based on an ecological approach, i.e. in close collaboration with the players benefiting from the research and their organizations, with a focus on situations of vulnerability and crisis of various kinds (difficult intervention contexts, health and safety issues, etc.).Recipient of an SNSF Ambizione grant (2020-2024), he is in charge of the Resilience-Oriented Training for Safety-Concerned Organizations (ROTSCO) project, which focuses on the development of professional dispositions to ensure/restore operational functioning, with a particular interest in simulating situations of emergency, indeterminacy, high intensity, long duration and scarcity of resources.