{"id":652,"date":"2025-11-03T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safer.polimi.it\/the-team\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:02:10","slug":"the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.safer.polimi.it\/en\/the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The team"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rethinking natural risk decision-making <\/em><\/p>\n

a philosophical perspective for more sustainable management.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The SAFER project was established at Politecnico di Milano to address a critical challenge: how to make more informed, equitable, and sustainable decisions in natural risk management. Landslides, floods, earthquakes, and droughts reflect the complex interplay between the environment, society, and human choices.  <\/p>

SAFER bridges philosophy, engineering, and the social sciences to develop decision-making tools that are more effective, transparent, and ethically grounded.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Malvina Ongaro focuses on the philosophy of risk at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. She earned her PhD from the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO), where her research centered on the relationship between decision-making and uncertainty. Malvina developed her expertise in the philosophy of science with an MSc from the London School of Economics and has further enriched her perspective through visiting fellowships in Rotterdam, Helsinki, and Stavanger. <\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Daniele Chiffi \u00e8 professore associato di Logica e Filosofia della Scienza al Politecnico di Milano. La sua ricerca si incentra principalmente sulla filosofia del rischio, l\u2019epistemologia e la pragmatica formali, le logiche non-classiche, la filosofia della scienza e della tecnologia, e la filosofia della medicina. La sua competenza si estende per\u00f2 anche alla normativit\u00e0 e all\u2019incertezza, alla filosofia del linguaggio, all\u2019etica della scienza e della tecnologia, e alla filosofia della citt\u00e0. <\/span>Il suo ultimo libro, <\/span>Uncertainty, Innovation and the City: Philosophical Explorations<\/span><\/i> (Edward Elgar), \u00e8 scritto insieme a Stefano Moroni.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>

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Francesco Ballio<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Roberto Paolucci<\/strong><\/p>

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Lorenza Petrini<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>

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