Alumni

We are so happy to have our programme founder Professor Sidney Dekker back in Lund to give us a keynote reflecting on the theoretical and practical development of our field during the past 20 years!

Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1996) is Professor in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Sidney has lived and worked in seven countries across four continents. He was at Lund University 2005-2011 where he founded the Master's in Human Factors and System Safety. 

Sidney is prolific and bestselling author of over twenty books, including Safety Theater, Ten Virtues of a Positive Safety Culture; Random Noise; Stop Blaming; Foundations of Safety Science; The Safety Anarchist; The End of Heaven; Just Culture; Safety Differently; The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’; Second Victim; Drift into Failure; Patient Safety; Compliance Capitalism; and Do Safety Differently. 

He has co-directed the documentaries ‘Safety Differently,’ ‘Just Culture,’ ’The Complexity of Failure,’ and ‘Doing Safety Differently.’ 

An avid piano player and pilot who learned to fly at age 14, Sidney flew the Boeing 737 for an airline on the side when he was at Lund. 

He is a trained mediator and Crisis Chaplain.

His work has some 23,000 citations and an h-index of 66. 

Stanford has recently ranked Sidney among the world’s top 1% most influential scientists since Newton. More at sidneydekker.com

We are happy and honored to have Professor Emeritus Erik Hollnagel joining our jubilee as a keynote speaker. Erik will reflect on the successes and failures of Joint Cognitive Systems, Resilience Engineering and Safety I vs. Safety II. 

Erik Hollnagel Scientific Director at the Institute of Resilient Systems + (Seoul, South Korea), Visiting Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technische Universitat München (Germany), and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at Linköping University (LIU), Sweden. 

Erik Hollnagel has done foundational work related to system management & performance, system safety, resilient health care, resilience engineering, human reliability analysis, cognitive systems engineering, and intelligent man-machine systems. He is the author of more than 500 publications including 32 books (working on number 33), articles from recognised journals, conference papers, and reports. A recent issue in Safety Science was dedicated to Erik's work.